In the last few weeks, I’ve been writing about the college records of the presidential candidates, VP candidates, and our current president and VP. But it seems like the brainiest one out of the whole bunch may be prospective First Lady Michelle Obama.
Check out Michelle Obama’s educational background. According to the Chicago Sun Times, Obama (whose maiden name was Michelle LaVaughn Robinson) was a brilliant and curious child who pulled herself out of her poverty-stricken childhood through hard work and academic talent. She could read by the time she was four and skipped the second grade.
After attending a prestigious Chicago magnet school, to which she had been handpicked, Obama was accepted to Princeton University, where she was one of only a few African American students. At Princeton, she majored in sociology and African American studies. She found her minority status to be a challenge, and wrote an honor’s thesis about that experience. Despite the challenge, Obama graduated cum laude from Princeton. Immediately afterward, she attended and graduated from Harvard University School of Law.
Now that sounds like a role model!
Read more about the college records of Cindy McCain, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney.
posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Naomi
Tags: barack obama, college record, harvard law, michelle obama, Princeton
Posted in Celebrities, Politics | 4 Comments »
March 21st, 2009 at 8:06 am
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May 6th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Affirmative action helped I am sure in getting Michelle in Ivy league schools. She didn’t grow up poor at all, her dad had a good job. There is no poor story here.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Where are her husbands school records, grades, written school papers, and his legal birth certificate and when can we expect to see it?
November 9th, 2009 at 10:57 am
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