Drop-outs Who Became President

I can't figure out why the Republicans are in such a tizzy about President Obama's college transcripts, and whether or not they have been released or should be released.

 

I couldn't give a hoot about Obama's transcripts or anybody else's.

Let's look at a list of the U.S. presidents who did not even graduate from college--let's call them the Presidental Drop-outs:

• George Washington: The death of his father ended Washington's formal schooling.
• Andrew Jackson: Received a sporadic education in the local "old-field" school.
• Martin Van Buren: Received a basic education at a poorly lit schoolhouse in his native village and later studied Latin briefly at the Kinderhook Academy and at Washingotn Seminary  in Claverack., New York. His formal education ended before he reached 14,
• William Henry Harrison: Attended college but never received a degree.
• Zachary Taylor: Had a sporadic formal education. His early letters show a weak grasp of spelling and grammar, and his handwriting would later be described as "that of a near illiterate."
• Millard Fillmore: Attended New Hope Academy for six months in 1819.
• Abraham Lincoln: Had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind.
• Andrew Johnson: Became a master tailor and was self-educated--he never saw the inside of a school room.
• Grover Cleveland: Elementary education came at the Fayetteville Academy and the Clinton Liberal Academy. After his father died in 1853, Cleveland left school and helped to support his family.
• Harry S Truman:  Truman was the only president who served after 1897 without a college degree.  In 1901, Truman enrolled in Spalding's Commercial College, in Kansas City,, but only lasted a semester. In 1923–25 he took night courses toward a law degree at the Kansas City Law School, but dropped out after losing his government job.

Source: http://bit.ly/wH6sr8

That's is quite an impressive list: ten presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, and  George Washington, were drop-outs yet were elected president of the United States. 

So, who cares for transcripts?

On the other hand, you won't  find any American president who squirreled away in offshore tax havens millions of dollars of money that he had earned in the United States of America in order to escape paying his fair share of taxes on those millions.

Millionaire Mitt Romey is the first and only member of that rogue's gallery!

This has nothing to do with transcripts. The plain truth is that Millionaire Mitt Romney is such an unattractive candidate, so uncharismatic, so bumbling, so out-of-touch with us, the 99% of Americans who aren't plutocrat tax-evaders, that the Republicans, in desperation, can only try to slander and smear President Obama in every way they can think of.

President Obama released his birth certificate and they said it was a forgery.  If he released whatever university transcripts the Republican ghouls want, they'd start screaming for his high-school transcripts.  If he released those, they'd be howling for his grade-school report cards.

All of this nonsense demonstrates nothing other than absolute and utter desperation.

Jagor