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Barack Obama ’83, My Columbia College Roommate
Columbia College Today - Alumni Corner ^ | Jan/Feb. 2009 | By Phil Boerner ’84

Posted on 02/19/2010 5:44:47 PM PST by Smokeyblue

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I just came across this site. Is this old news?
1 posted on 02/19/2010 5:44:47 PM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: Smokeyblue

I wonder if Rev. Manning talked with this guy....


2 posted on 02/19/2010 5:47:01 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: LucyT

Ping.

Not sure if this is old news.


3 posted on 02/19/2010 5:48:16 PM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: Smokeyblue

Reading, hmmm.


4 posted on 02/19/2010 5:52:13 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: Smokeyblue

Funny this should appear now....


5 posted on 02/19/2010 5:53:33 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: Smokeyblue

I’m not positive but I believe they call it Columbia University although it seems more like a communist nursery school.


6 posted on 02/19/2010 5:54:31 PM PST by jdfromny (At what point are we officially "North Americans"?)
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To: Smokeyblue

A likable guy who seems to have a lot of character. The same has been said of many dictators.


7 posted on 02/19/2010 5:55:57 PM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: Smokeyblue
snif ...

Thanks

sniff...

Phil Bonehead for that

snif

touching, heartwarming rendition of Barrak the marxist goes to college.

(You forgot the barf alert)

8 posted on 02/19/2010 5:57:22 PM PST by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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To: Smokeyblue

No dorm room numbers or house address? How convenient!


9 posted on 02/19/2010 5:58:47 PM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Smokeyblue
Well, it is old news to me, but maybe others have not read the story.

The true story of this Marxist's life goes untold.

10 posted on 02/19/2010 5:59:48 PM PST by BARLF
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To: Smokeyblue

I’d guess that Rahm paid him by the word.


11 posted on 02/19/2010 6:03:13 PM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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We also didn’t have regular hot water and sometimes used the Columbia gym for showers.

Obama probably bathed at the local gay Upper West Side bathhouses.

And they didn't have a computer because the only computers available were Apple II E's or those of personal construction.

I call BS on this obviously gay dude.

He is trolling for some favors from our Lord Obama.

12 posted on 02/19/2010 6:03:46 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Luke 12:34 -- For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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No dorm room numbers or house address? How convenient!

Yeah, because I remember my dorm room numbers from the early 90's.

13 posted on 02/19/2010 6:04:34 PM PST by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: jdfromny

Columbia College is the undergraduate school at Columbia U.


14 posted on 02/19/2010 6:04:50 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Luke 12:34 -- For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Smokeyblue

Notice how this guy avoids any talk of politics? I suspect it’s because he is either a liberal himself or or does not want to bad mouth a former friend. (Assuming this whole story is not fiction)


15 posted on 02/19/2010 6:06:15 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Smokeyblue
Interesting that the picture of “O” used in the story is the widely circulated one with the “close” friend cropped out!
16 posted on 02/19/2010 6:08:16 PM PST by 3D-JOY
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“draft beer, not people,”???
I believe the draft ended in 1975. I was in college then.
The following year Carter the Disaster was elected and
gave amnesty to the draft dodgers in 1977 (if i remember correctly).

If this was 1979 or 1980 as the writer mentions, either
his bong-watered memory is bad or he hung around with
the lefties living in the past.


17 posted on 02/19/2010 6:09:42 PM PST by stanley windrush
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To: Smokeyblue

Looks like this was in the JAN/FEB edition of the alumni magazine. Columbia College is PART of Columbia University.

“West 109th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus”


18 posted on 02/19/2010 6:10:53 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
“Funny this should appear now....”

For sure. This is the first person I have read who admits to knowing BHO back “in the days”!

Strange, that!

19 posted on 02/19/2010 6:13:13 PM PST by chooseascreennamepat
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To: Smokeyblue

I lived on Riverside Dr and 112 st at the time of this narrative. the guy gets all the details right from the radiators to the startling quiet after snows to Toms and the West End.

I don’t know if he gets the stuff about Obama right...

The problem with the college narrative is that this guy claiming to know Obama is the only one from that class who ever knew or heard of the guy...that is my problem with the narrative is that he claims that he and obama went to columbia college—why?

Everyone at the college knew each other. there have been many postings here at free republic about columbia alumni who attend alumni meetings who knew everyone in the class—yet no one knew of obama.

It would be more likely that Obama and this guy went to the school of general studies—where no one knew each other.

Yet that’s not what he says.


20 posted on 02/19/2010 6:15:04 PM PST by ckilmer (Phi)
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