I have already pointed out Biden’s poor academic record but would like to turn my attention to Kamala, Hillary and Michelle O. All three flunked the bar exam and in Michelle Obama’s case several times. Hillary NEVER passed the D.C.Bar exam! Kamala flunked the California bar on her first try. (BTW as best as I could determine, Biden passed on his first try and was in the bottom 10% of his class.)

So what’s my point? These supposed geniuses are nothing of the sort. And I can even come up with an excuse for Hillary and Michelle, but not for Kamala. They went to national law schools, Yale and Harvard, and so didn’t have any grounding in the actual law in the states they were taking the exam in, and that’s what they were tested on. Although 3 or 4 times for Michelle is beyond the pale for anyone consider a genius. I’ll explain more about this below along with a couple of cute stories, but first I want to point out that Kamala went to law school at UC Hastings in San Francisco and has no excuse other than not being the bright light she claims to be.

Here’s what you need to know about the difference between a state law school like I attended at the University of Florida and national law schools. At a state law school when they teach criminal law or estates and trusts, it is grounded in the actual law applicable in that state with a nod to supposed model laws that may or may not be applicable in the state. National schools focus on the model laws which are probably not actually the law anywhere. And at least at Florida we were required to take courses on all subjects that are on the bar exam. That’s not true of national schools which I became aware of because my daughter went to Duke and never took courses covering a few subjects on the bar. Thus you can see why Hillary and Michelle might have had a problem on a given state’s bar although given that they are supposed to be so bright to go to those schools in the first place that taking a bar review course should have been easily enough for them.

(I could point out that I was a member of the DC Bar that Hillary could never get into but I don’t want to be disingenuous. Florida and DC had a reciprocity agreement and so when I moved north I only had to fill out an application and pay $500 to become a member.)

Now you can tune out because here are my stories related to this subject. At UF their was an iconic criminal law professor named Danny Clarke. He was legendary because he basically wrote the Florida criminal code. On the first day of class he said that he understood that some people were wondering why we weren’t studying California or New York law and he said that he understood that they have law schools in those states.

There is a thing in law school called a loom. It’s basically a cliffs notes written by someone on law review and for sale. A fraternity brother of mine went directly to law school while I got my MBA. Thus when I got there he was in his last year but he had taken Danny’s course and had the loom which he gave me with his annotations and people even the jokes he had annotated were same. (BTW Frank Shorter who had just won the Olympic Gold medal in the marathon sat next to me on the days he actually showed up.)

Now here’s the point of this particular story. Danny’s loom was so well known that in a criminal case a defense attorney made an argument and when he was asked for the authority supporting his argument he cited Danny’s loom and both the prosecutor and the judge had taken Danny’s course and accepted it.