does obama agree that he benefited from affirmative action?

From the end of Patrick Buchanan's most recent column:

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http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/04/28/hate-speech-makes-a-comeback/

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And the demand for Obama's test scores -- is that racism?

Well, was it racist of the New Yorker to reveal in 1999 that George W. 
Bush got a score of 1206 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (566 verbal, 640 
math) or that Al Gore got a 1355? Was it racist of the Boston Globe to 
report that John Kerry was a D student as a freshman, who eventually rose 
up to a C and B student at Yale?

Was it racist of The New York Times' Charlie Savage to report that Supreme 
Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor had described herself as an "'affirmative 
action baby' whose lower test scores were overlooked by the admissions 
committees at Princeton University and Yale Law School because, she said, 
she is Hispanic"?

If a White House correspondent stood up at a press conference and said: 
"Mr. President, Donald Trump is asking for your college and law school 
test scores. Do you believe you benefited from affirmative action in your 
academic career?" would that be racist?

Perhaps Obama might begin his answer as he did, two decades before, in a 
Nov. 16, 1990, letter as president of Harvard Law Review:

"As someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs 
during my career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law 
Review's affirmative action program when I was selected to join the Review 
last year, I have not personally felt stigmatized."

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