Thanks, Breitbart, for leading us to THIS interview from 2008
We know PBS aired the tape in 2008, but they also conducted interviews with Harvard students who knew Barack Obama well.
One of them was Bradford Berenson - Harvard Law, class of '91; Member of the conservative Federalist Society; associate White House counsel, 2001-'03.
In 2008 Berenson said:
...After [Obama] became president of the Review, he was under a lot of pressure to participate and lend his voice to those debates. And he did, I think, to some degree. But I would not have described him as a campus radical or a campus political leader. He was the president of the Harvard Law Review, the leader of that organization.
...You don't become president of the Harvard Law Review, no matter how political, or how liberal the place is, by virtue of affirmative action, or by virtue of not being at the very top of your class in terms of legal ability. Barack was at the very top of his class in terms of legal ability. He had a first-class legal mind and, in my view, was selected to be president of the Review entirely on his merits.
... I never regarded him as kind of a racial special pleader, or a person looking for race-based benefits, either for himself or others. I think as a policy matter, he supported affirmative action and believed in the arguments for it. But unlike many people on the left, he was also willing to acknowledge that it had costs, and he could at least appreciate the arguments on the other side.
Berenson's and interviews of others concerning President Obama's Harvard days at the link.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice2008/obama/harvard.html
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