LOL RebDoniel – Below mediocre student? He graduated two of the most prestigious universities in the world, from law school Magna Cum Laude (which means roughly in the the top 10% of his class.)He made the Harvard Law review, and became the first black person to become the president of Harvard Law Review. Even if he got a “race bump”, he was still better than anyone else before him who would have been entitled to that bump. He did such a good job editing one judge’s article that the judge offered him an appeals court clerkship – one of the most prestigious jobs that one can get upon graduation. But he turned it down to go into public service.
(Note: I assume that you were happy with President Bush II, who couldn’t get into the University of Texas when his father was a Texas Congressman, and basically admitted to getting mostly Cs at Yale.)