Mitt Romney, who has law and business degrees from Harvard, is criticizing President Obama for having a law degree from Harvard.
Think Progress (“Romney, Who Has Two Harvard Degrees, Says Obama Spent ‘Too Much Time At Harvard’“):
Speaking at his Pennsylvania campaign headquarters this morning, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama as out of touch for spending too much time at Harvard, where the president went to law school. “We have a president, who I think is is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps,” Romney said.
Unfortunately for Romney, his attack is undermined by the fact that the GOP presidential hopeful has twice as many degrees from Harvard as Obama. Romney earned a combined JD/MBA from the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts university. That means Romney spent an extra year at Harvard, getting the combined degree in four years, compared to Obama’s three for the JD alone. Indeed, Romney thrived at Harvard by all accounts.
Romney has previously attacked Obama for taking advice from the “Harvard faculty lounge,” even though one of Romney’s top economic advisers is Harvard professor Greg Mankiw.
Now, I suppose having gone to Harvard Law School doesn’t technically preclude one from arguing that someone else is tainted by having gone to Harvard Law School. Romney clearly studied with an eye towards business whereas Obama went on to, among other things, teach law. So, there’s an argument to be made that Obama was “corrupted” by the experience in a way that Romney escaped. Still, it’s a pretty silly argument. It is Silly Season, though.
