Not Getting Better

The more I read about the beer summit, the less I like the President. On a personal level. This doesn't have to do with politics. One of Obama's most endearing qualities is how he comes off a good, decent, hardworking, nice person. He is likable. This is why he beat Hillary Clinton in the primary. She had more experience, more clout, and was a better candidate on paper. But she isn't likable and doesn't inspire people or even make people want to hang out with her. Obama is glamorous and pleasant to be around, charming, and comes across as cool.

But this beer summit is making him look like a petty jackass who can't drink and plays favorites.

America is Tiger Woods country for a reason, and she elected Barack Obama to punctuate this new reality. The nation's laws, education system and media attitudes now need to catch up, but such catching up is exactly what Mr. Obama doesn't stand for.

My long-held fear is that Mr. Obama is hiding something about his education. During the endless 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama would not release his college grades. Given that President George W. Bush and Sens. Al Gore and John Kerry all had proved mediocre grades were no impediment to a presidential bid, Mr. Obama likely had other concerns.

While I have no desire to see Mr. Obama's birth certificate, I do want to see his college transcripts. My suspicion, one could even call it a conspiracy theory, is that Mr. Obama committed himself to a radical curriculum, aligned himself with the far-left professoriate, and sought to keep this biographical information from his political enemies, especially then-rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, for fear that they would paint the former community organizer and follower of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as something other than an advocate of racial reconciliation.

I didn't realize Obama never released his college transcripts. That's weird, I think.