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Mitt Romney Says Obama Spent Too Much Time At Harvard…But So Did He

Posted: April 5, 2012

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Harrisburg, Pa. – Mitt Romney was speaking at a roof top event in Harrisburg Pennsylvania when he made a very odd statement about President Obama.  Romney said that President Obama “spent too much time at Harvard University” which is an apparent jab at his liberal tendencies and trying to call him an academic snob.

While this is an attack that is heard kind of often among Republican circles it is odd for Romney because he also went to Harvard University, and spent a year more than Obama did there.

Romney enrolled in a four-year program at Harvard in 1971, eventually earning a joint JD and MBA and graduating cum laude in 1975. In 1988, Obama began attending Harvard Law School. He spent three years there, eventually becoming president of the Harvard Law Review before graduating magna cum laude and receiving his JD in 1991.

So to sum it up, Romney spent four years there and Obama spent three years there.  Even more ironic is that Obama graduated with a better GPA than Romney did.

Analysts are chocking this one up to yet another strange gaffe coming from the Romney campaign.  Romney has often tried to present President Obama as an elitist, but talk about a really bad case of the pot and the kettle.

Mitt Romney went to the same college as President Obama, has made hundred’s of millions of dollars more than President Obama, has worked in Venture Capital preying on weak companies (yet something else that Obama never did), yet he is calling President Obama an Elitist?



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4 Archived Responses to “ Mitt Romney Says Obama Spent Too Much Time At Harvard…But So Did He ”

  1. Zephy Dean
    Apr 5, 2012

    My aunt makes $85 an hour and she got paid $9670 last month just for working a few hours a day online. All she did was get fortunate and apply the skills she saw here at http://www.lazycash29.com.

  2. David Johnston
    Apr 5, 2012

    I agree that Romney's comment is idiotic, but you can't really compare Romney and Obama's GPAs when they were in different programs. At least they're both smarter than Bush.

  3. Susan Onellion
    Apr 9, 2012

    how do we know oblama got better grades; his records are sealed.

  4. Melanie Butera
    Sep 2, 2012

    Can you, or anyone, be this ignorant? "Spending too much time at Harvard" is not a comparison of numerical days. Any one who walks with their knuckles dragging on the ground knows that. It is simply saying that he has spend too much time learning theory of business, etc, and not enough time in the real world practicing it. Romney has more real experience, no matter how many days he spent in school. And Bain did not preay on "weak companies"– no more than a lifeguard preys on a weak swimmer. They tried to save them. And Obama has his own 10 sweet million sitting in the bank, so quit believing he is just a poor slob who is struggling to pay for his arugula, while his wife wears a 6,000 dollar dinner jacket and 3600 dollar shoes. And what was Obama's GPA? What classes did he take? And did he have a double major / degree and a young family at the time.