Once at Harvard, we can’t assume that he got good grades, either. Where is the proof that he had good grades there?

We can’t assume that good grades got him onto the Law Review.

Until the 1970′s the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.

That system came under attack in the 1970′s and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.

And lastly, his being elected Editor was the result of political savvy and telling people what they wanted to hear (then as now) when the selection committee, after midnight, was tired and just wanted the process (which had taken 17 hours) to be over so they could go to bed.

Has Obama been successful as a politician? Yes.

But to imply that he is brilliant and more intelligent than 7,000 Rhodes Scholars, without any proof other of his grades, and based solely on his being elected Editor of the HLR, is intellectually dishonest.