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Marco Rubio calls Obama's art historian apology "pathetic"

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) isn't impressed that President Barack Obama apologized to an art history professor who criticized his recent remarks on the academic discipline.

The senator, who did his undergraduate work at the University of Florida, tweeted on Wednesday that the president's apology was "pathetic."

Obama said last month that "skilled manufacturing" would be a better area of study than art history....

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