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Did Barack Obama go to Columbia?
Unqualified Reservations ^ | 10/31/08 | Mencius Moldbug

Posted on 11/01/2008 9:52:30 PM PDT by pissant

I know. I swore that my evil demagogic talents would go unused in this volatile, historic, and deliciously operatic election. And we'll certainly have a fun discussion after the event.

At the moment, though, I find myself tussling with a question I'm not sure anyone has seriously asked. And I just can't resist.

My question is: was Barack Obama ever a student at Columbia? Because here's how one scurrilous compendium of racist smears puts it:

Obama graduated from Columbia College in 1983, and after spending a year in New York, moved to Chicago.

Wayne Allyn Root says, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! ... Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding.

Questioner: Were you the exact same class?

Root: Class of '83 political science, pre-law Columbia University. You don't get more exact than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, 20th reunion, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! Who was he, and five years ago, nobody even knew who he was... the guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange? It's very strange...

When asked about his undergraduate training at Columbia University, The New Times states that Obama "declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."

Many of his classmates don't remember Obama. He's not in the yearbook. Columbia couldn't find a picture of him at school.

What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends. Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him.

Does this ring true for you? Does it even pass the laugh test?

Barack or Barry - note that he is still Barry while at Occidental; at the next place we know he existed, Harvard Law, he has become Barack - spends two years at Columbia. He presumably receives two years worth of college credits. By taking two years worth of college courses.

Furthermore, in every other period of his life, he is known as the gregarious and charismatic young man he obviously was. Nor can his looks be described as ordinary. Nor is even his name ordinary. This man is a future president. And no one remembers him? No one?

What is the chance that a budding young politician of undeniable talent and promise spends his junior and senior years at Columbia, and no one remembers him? What is the chance that my right ass cheek, through spontaneous quantum vibration, suddenly transmutes into a hemisphere of polished gold? Don't you feel these probabilities are at least roughly comparable?

I can speak slightly to this issue, because while Obama (purportedly) was a transfer student at Columbia in 1981, I was a transfer student at Brown in 1989. It is certainly easy to disappear into the void as a transfer, because most everyone acquires their principal social networks as a freshman. I am also a naturally reticent person who was quite a bit underaged, and I have to say that if anyone "lived like a monk" it was me (although I was in the CS lab, not the library). And I certainly have no plans to seek political office!

Nonetheless, if you were a major media organization, and you went looking for people who were at Brown in the late '80s and early '90s, and asked them if they remembered Mencius Moldbug - giving my real name, of course - you would find them. Easily. Very easily.

So let me ask anyone who cares to comment below. How, exactly, do we - the American people, Lord help us - know that Barack Obama attended Columbia? Or, more precisely: why should we assume, on the basis of the evidence that we have, that he did? Do we seriously believe it is possible for a future President to be unremembered at his alma mater?

What we know is that a Columbia spokesman has confirmed that Obama attended Columbia. If we're lucky, this means precisely one thing: someone at Columbia went over to a file cabinet, opened it, and found a file that looked basically right. Which is more likely: that no one remembers one of the most articulate and talented black students on an Ivy League campus? Or that someone planted a file or two?

WikiCU, the Columbia wiki, in a paragraph which is of course completely unsourced, contains names of two individuals whom it claims claim to remember him (Michael Baron, a professor and contributor, and Michael Wolf, former president of MTV). They

confirm that he was a brilliant, standout student and that he was an active participant in seminars. Baron said he was one of the top one or two students in his class.

No wallflower, in other words. And despite this - no one else remembers him. (Nor did the NYT find Messrs. Baron and Wolf - at least, not on the first pass.) Does this make you less suspicious? Or more? WikiCU is also oddly tentative about a couple of other things:

Obama claims to have participated to some extent in anti-apartheid activities with the Black Students Organization, but no one is quite sure.

He majored in PoliSci, and claims to have concentrated in "International Relations," (now International Politics - this is a subfield of the PoliSci major and should not be confused with a "concentration," the Columbia term that substitutes for what most schools term a "minor").

"Claims." "To some extent." "No one is quite sure." And his concentration is not a concentration at all. You don't smell anything here? You don't detect perhaps a little teensy bit of an odor?

If we rule out the impossible, we have to accept the improbable. In my mind, knowing what I know (if anyone has better information, hopefully they will post it in the comments), it is close enough to impossible that Barack Obama went to Columbia, that I'm willing to say the unsayable and theorize about what else might have happened. Yes, I realize that this makes me a racist.

My guess is that young Barry dropped out of Occidental in '81, not to go to Columbia, but to go to New York and be a black revolutionary bohemian. We know he was a red-diaper baby (no shame in that - my father's parents were CPUSA members), and we know he was involved with an SDS splinter group at Occidental. Zombie has a very interesting timeline of his time in New York, during which it seems very probable that Obama met Bill Ayers. She also links to a completely unsubstantiated and irresponsible speculation that Obama was a roommate of Ayers and Dohrn - which I'm afraid can't help but remind me of this chilling story. Yes, these people are that evil.

What's certain is that whenever they met, Obama and Ayers did not just "meet." At least until Obama was actually elected to state office, their relationship cannot have been one of equals. Ayers was the warlord of the Weathermen. Since that time, probably everyone in his social network, and certainly everyone younger than him, has been a supporter, groupie, protege, or what have you. Ayers is a celebrity of the Left. Celebrities have peers, and celebrities have entourages. There is never any doubt over who is which.

And for those of you still convinced that Obama and Ayers were "neighbors," note that Obama almost certainly worked out of Ayers' office for three years. If you know anything about the granting process, the relationship between Ayers' "Small Schools Workshop" (educacion es revolucion!) and Obama's Annenberg Challenge is obvious: the AC was a funded grant proposal out of Ayers' office. An organizational bud or pseudopod, basically. So under this scenario, Ayers is Obama's professional mentor for at least fifteen years. (And if that doesn't bother you, cue up Larry Grathwohl.)

My guess - not because I have any reason to believe that this specifically is what happened, but just because every other explanation I can think of strikes me as less probable - is that Obama, as a young black radical with SDS credentials and obvious talent and potential, found it relatively trivial to earn quick admission to the inner circle, spent two years as a gofer, intern, catamite, or what have you for the Ayers crime family, and was rewarded by the gift of a Columbia degree and a ticket to Harvard Law.

Did Bill Ayers have connections in the administrative staff at Columbia? It would be remarkable if he didn't. Folks, the Movement was the center of the universe in 1968. If you were one of the top hundred people in it, let alone Bill Ayers, you were the giant glowing sun in the core of your social galaxy. You were a stud beyond studs. You had friends everywhere.

And would someone who blows up police stations blanch at planting a file? Honestly, can we even be confident that the staff at Columbia looked at the file? Who are they, and how do we know them? Again: why do we believe that Barack Obama attended classes at Columbia?

Moreover, a bogus Columbia degree is exactly the sort of thing an ambitious person can get away with in this world. Especially an ambitious black person. Everyone hates to be a racist. Of course, you have to have a serious pair of brass balls, but I think we know Obama has those.

But running for president? And, seemingly, winning? Is it possible? It would certainly be something new under the sun, that's for sure. But semper aliquid novi, as they say.

The story is easy to check. Just ask Barack Obama to tell us the names of some of his classes and professors at Columbia. He may not have had friends, but he took classes from professors. Then, find the professors and students. Not just one of each. All of them. (For example, there were apparently only seven other students, presumably all jealous of the One's rapierlike wit, in Michael Baron's seminar.) Interview these people. Take depositions, if needed. Ask them if they remember Barry. Or Barack. Or whatever he was calling himself at the time. If not...

Of course, the One is scheduled to be elected President in a few days. So he may not find the time to answer. But does it matter? All this will be so much more fun after the election.

And in case it matters, no: I don't really believe Barack Obama is the Manchurian Candidate. If I had to bet, I would bet that Steve Sailer has him pegged: Obama is Gatsby. I think Obama is a man without qualities, a person of no particular character or perspective, who is very good at conforming to the expectations of whatever context he finds himself in. I think he wound up in Ayers' circle just because he's a climber, and that was the handiest pole to climb. I think that in an Obama administration the White House will revert to its long-term trendline of becoming a basically ceremonial and functionless agency. I think, I think, I think.

But I don't know. And that worries me a little. Doesn't it worry you too? A little? Just a little?


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KEYWORDS: antichrist; columbia; communist; conspiracy; larrysinclairslover; obama
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I'll bet the farm that Obama was very close with Ayers while "attending" COlumbia.
1 posted on 11/01/2008 9:52:31 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

He never went, he has someone phony his school record, I think this is what this article is hinting at.


2 posted on 11/01/2008 9:58:49 PM PDT by dila813
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To: dila813

He may have got “grades” by giving th eradical professors and Ayers blow jobs. That’s my theory anyway.


3 posted on 11/01/2008 10:00:08 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

I don’t know about Columbia but he did receive a Certificate of Corruption from RJ Daley Community College in Chicago.


4 posted on 11/01/2008 10:04:32 PM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98...Ain't no Newbie!)
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To: pissant

Curiouser and curiouser.


5 posted on 11/01/2008 10:05:56 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: pissant

I don’t believe he went.

And up until this year, I didn’t believe a Manchurian Candidate could exist.


6 posted on 11/01/2008 10:06:19 PM PDT by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: pissant

Bill Ayers seems to have been at Columbia Teachers College from 1984 to 1987, not as early as your timeline suggests:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2111771/posts?page=6#6


7 posted on 11/01/2008 10:07:06 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Obama can act presidential. McCain should be President.)
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To: AZLiberty

He lived right down the street from Columbia when Osama Hussein attended. What a coincidence.


8 posted on 11/01/2008 10:18:00 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: dila813

didn’t we go through this with Bush not attending the last year of his National Guard service ?


9 posted on 11/01/2008 10:28:14 PM PDT by staytrue
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To: pissant; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; Alamo-Girl; PhilDragoo; The Spirit Of Allegiance; ...

interessting!!


10 posted on 11/01/2008 10:43:26 PM PDT by bitt (I AM Sarah Palin.)
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To: staytrue

And didn’t the MSM hound Bush about it?

Not a peep about Obama.


11 posted on 11/01/2008 10:48:02 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: pissant; bitt

Thank you for the post and ping!

I find this more than interesting.
What Presidential candidate doesn’t have some kind of background check?
The drive-bys love to delve into every little nook and cranny of said candidate’s life.
Unless, said candidate is Barak Obama.

Even more interesting is why the DNC is now located in Chicago?
You would think they would be more effective in Washington, D. C.
However, I guess they are easier to control in Chicago.


12 posted on 11/01/2008 11:01:05 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (John McCain - Tortured by Communists - - -Barak Obama - Tutored by Communists)
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To: pissant

Cooper Union is close to Columbia and I wonder if Obama might have attended it. It has very controversial conferences and might have interested him.


13 posted on 11/01/2008 11:13:43 PM PDT by HiFive (The Shadow in Politics)
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To: pissant

man, I wish Wayne had been the LP candidate, he was all set up to be then Barr says HEY I’M A LIBERTARIAN! and they give him the the slot. I was almost ready to hold my nose and vote for the aclu piece of crap then he jumped on the globul whoring bandwagon, that is not libertarian at all. Maybe Wayne will be the candidate in 2012.


14 posted on 11/01/2008 11:19:59 PM PDT by 09Patriot (I am a MILITANT Conservative, compassionate conservativism got us NOWHERE)
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To: pissant

There is muchy that smells suspicious about Obama’s alleged attendance at Columbia. Among the aspects that draw attention: Obama’s website says he attended “Columbia Univeristy.” If he attended “Columiba College,” he would say “Columbia College” or “Columbia College” of Columbia University and he would give a date.

There is a School of General Studies that many attend on the fly, a course here, a course there; the standards are much, much less than those of Columbia College, though with affirmative action and Columbia’s Palestinian Authority propagandist Edward Said teaching at Columbia University, anything’s possible.

Obama and Ayers have both said they were among Edward Said’s proteges, as are other Marxist operatives he placed in academe. A direct inquiry to Columbia University’s “ask us” link about whether Obama attended any of Columbia University’s schools was met with a red flag unexpected written answer: “Check the public [Internet] sites.” Only when I strongly pressed the issue did I get an answer a couple of days later: “He graduated from the College in 1983.” The whole online interchange smelled fishy.

It seems like someone at Columbia was trying to keep at a distance the university from information about Obama.

It’s scary how easily academic credentials can be faked. I know another faker not dissimilar to Obama who heads a large department of local government and also regularly claims he attended Columbia University, though he never attended even one class there.


15 posted on 11/02/2008 12:20:21 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now (Obama's close pals for at least the past 30 years have been Communist terrorists with foreign ties.)
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To: pissant

Very well written, and very thoughful.

I’ve speculated on these very things myself in various posts, emails to friends (and enemies), blog comments, etc.

I read a post somewhere by someone who basically placed Hussein mere blocks away from the Brinks armored car heist by the W.U. that resulted in the murder of two NYC police officers and a Brinks guard.

It is possible that Hussein was himself some kind of charter member of The Weather Underground in its last incarnation.

The confluence of Ayers’ and Dorhn’s activities with Hussein’s time spent in NYC, their propinquity there and later all of them gathered in Chicago, with Hussein and Dorhn working at the same law firm...all of it points to commies in cahoots for many, many years.


16 posted on 11/02/2008 12:26:14 AM PDT by VigilantAmerican (We will not waver, we will not tire; we will not falter, we will not fail)
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To: pissant
What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends.

Maybe that crack investigative "journalist" and contemporary, George Stephanopoulos could enlighten us with some shared observations of his all-but classmate, Barry Whatever??? Stephy graduated from Columbia College a year ahead of Barry. Same field -- political science? Seems Stephy has interviewed Barry a number of times. I gather they didn't discuss their early days at Columbia?

17 posted on 11/02/2008 12:50:29 AM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on!)
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To: pissant

That no one remembers a college student isn’t that odd.

I had to work full time and went to college full time.
I knew a handful of people, but can’t remember much socializing. It was school-—work, school-—work.
The same for graduate school.
As I recall both colleges had around 20000-30000 students.

The last yearbook I was in was probably high school.

What bothers me most about Obama’s school days is that he refuses to provide transcripts— or anything that links him.

If I were a betting man, I’d say the odds he attended a class at Columbia are quite high. (That’s one class—to establish a record)

The chance he spent two full years is close to zero.

The simple fact is that Barack Obama is a fictitious creature born in a book and raised by the media. He reminds me of that movie: “The Man Who Never Was”.

Very Scary Stuff.


18 posted on 11/02/2008 1:21:26 AM PDT by XGMan
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To: XGMan

This guy is a total fraud, with a resume` created out of thin air.


19 posted on 11/02/2008 3:58:35 AM PST by rashley (Rashley)
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To: bitt

Thanks for the ping!


20 posted on 11/02/2008 8:00:39 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: bitt; pissant; dixiechick2000; MeekOneGOP; ntnychik; potlatch; devolve; Calpernia; LucyT; ...

Not a Manchurian Candidate?

There's no birth certificate--he was born in Kenya of an American mother indoctrinated by her Communist father and Communist high school, and a Kenyan father who studied Russian to serve the Mau Mau Soviet butcher Kenyatta.

He sings the Muslim call to prayer in perfect Arabic, is the type of "Christian" who believes America must be destroyed, is grafted on the gluteus to the moving force of the Maoist American front.

He is flakked by the son of sleepers who got his tribcrib from another sleeper.

His main mentor for nine years was the Communist pervert Davis.

He is endorsed by Chia, Fidel, Imajihadbob, HamasHamoHamat, Fairycon, and QuackDaffy.

He speaks either hypnotic rhythmic drivel or key Commie cliches.

He is Saul Alinsky without the trenchcoat and fedora.

Enough with this "he's not a Manchurian Candidate"--

It is what it is--

--and what it is is the anti-Constitutionalist.


21 posted on 11/02/2008 8:58:56 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: pissant

>>>Did Bill Ayers have connections in the administrative staff at Columbia? It would be remarkable if he didn’t. Folks, the Movement was the center of the universe in 1968.

Related, whole thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752044/posts
Columbia Defends Its Nazi Links: “Everyone Was Doing It”


22 posted on 11/02/2008 9:50:31 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: pissant; Liz

Seems fake degrees are quite the trend amongst officials. Silly us, still paying back our college loans. We should have taken the easy route.

http://www.njsendems.com/release.asp?rid=2463
TURNER: FAKE DEGREES FROM DIPLOMA MILLS ‘EDUCATIONAL MALPRACTICE’


23 posted on 11/02/2008 9:56:52 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: VigilantAmerican

>>>I read a post somewhere by someone who basically placed Hussein mere blocks away from the Brinks armored car heist by the W.U. that resulted in the murder of two NYC police officers and a Brinks guard.

Ironic that one of those fine terrorists names was Odinga too.

I never heard that name before. Since Obama became a candidate, now I’ve heard it twice.


24 posted on 11/02/2008 10:02:20 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: ForGod'sSake; pissant
What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends.

Well, Columbia is located between Morningside Heights and Harlem. Don't think he lived in Morningside Heights though.
25 posted on 11/02/2008 11:31:12 AM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: PhilDragoo; bitt
Lets  BLOW his house down!


26 posted on 11/02/2008 2:26:55 PM PST by potlatch
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To: PhilDragoo; bitt; pissant; dixiechick2000; MeekOneGOP; ntnychik; potlatch; devolve; Calpernia; ...
So lissen. It turns out this joker was at Columbia General Studies not the real Columbia. So it is natural that the real, genuine Ivy Leaguers in the undergraduate program at Columbia University wouldn't know him. Now, add to these inconvenient facts the fact that his name was "Barry Soetoro" at the beginning of the adventure, and "Barack Hussein Obama" when he was mysteriously admitted to Harvard Law. We do know he was heavily involved with "Black Studies," or whatever the hell they called it then, and his undergrad thesis was more than likely a fire-breathing, anti-whitey screed.

Also rather inconveniently, Bernadine Dohrn's sister was a Columbia faculty member. Just a coincidence. That Bernadine Dohrn was mentoring Michelle Obama at the same time is also just a coincidence. Of course, to a racist curmudgeon, it might plausibly seem that both of these affirmative action babies were a creation of this bomb-making dynamic radical duo.

Certainly not I. Dedicated to diversity as I am, I certainly welcome anyone born in Kenya to an unmarried 17-year old American, adopted by an Indonesian, who then traveled on Indonesian passports, who was treated for schizophrenia, who smoked crack, snorted cocaine, whose best friends (only friends) are domestic terrorists, who seems to be a marxist who gave a million bucks to a church-burning Muslim radical in Kenya, and who is a friend of Tony Rezko, as my President and Commander in chief.

27 posted on 11/02/2008 3:45:29 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Marxist Muslim Cousin Odinga burned Christians in their churches. Obama bought him the gas.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

>>>Now, add to these inconvenient facts the fact that his name was “Barry Soetoro” at the beginning of the adventure, and “Barack Hussein Obama” when he was mysteriously admitted to Harvard Law.

::adding to the woodpile::

If this is true, then he lied on his bar application when he checked off no prior aliases.

Which means, there is no legal name change.

Which means, he is not ‘legally’ “Barack Hussein Obama”.

Therefore, no one is running for President by the name of “Barack Hussein Obama”. He doesn’t legally exist :))

;)


28 posted on 11/02/2008 3:58:50 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: BIGLOOK

There was a thread, within the past 2 days, that was an endorsement for Barack Obama when he ran for Senate by the Chicago DSA. They had him listed as a community organizer in Harlem. So he did probably live there.


29 posted on 11/02/2008 4:01:29 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Kenny Bunk; PhilDragoo; Calpernia; Kevmo; Fred Nerks; null and void; pissant; george76; Polarik; ...

Thanks, Kenny Bunk and PhilDragoo.

Ping to article; check out #24.


30 posted on 11/02/2008 4:18:40 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Kenny Bunk

>>>whose best friends (only friends) are domestic terrorists

Rezko is Syrian, Auchi is Iraqi, Weathermen were foreign funded.

Oops, we have an enemy combatant here!


31 posted on 11/02/2008 4:23:00 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

Full Licensed
Name:
Barack Hussein Obama
Full Former
name(s):
None

http://www.politifact.com/media/files/obamaattyreg.pdf


32 posted on 11/02/2008 4:31:11 PM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: Calpernia

“”My name is Sekou Mgobogi Abdullah Odinga. I am a Muslim and a POW. I was born in Queens, N.Y., on June 17, 1944...”

http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/pps+pows/sekou-odinga/index.html


33 posted on 11/02/2008 4:42:21 PM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: Fred Nerks

Which means, he knew there would not be a paper trail attached to him with an alias.


34 posted on 11/02/2008 4:42:31 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: LucyT

LOL,,,I think we were posting about where O’Bammy was when

that robbery took place a few weeks ago...


35 posted on 11/02/2008 4:42:38 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Fred Nerks

Sekou Odinga RAILA ODINGA

They look like they could be the same age, no?

36 posted on 11/02/2008 4:46:09 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Fred Nerks; Calpernia
"In 1970, I was asked to go to Algeria to help set up the International section of the BPP. After the split in the Party, caused by the COINTELPRO program, I decided to come back to the U.S. to continue the struggle. I continued to work until my capture in October of 1981. I was charged with six counts of attempted murder of police, for shooting over my shoulder while being chased and shot at by police. I was also charged with nine predicate acts of a RICO indictment. I was convicted of the attempted murders and given twenty-five years-to-life for it. I was convicted of two counts of the RICO indictment (the liberation of Assata Shakur and expropriation of an armored truck) and given twenty years and $25,000 fine for each RICO charge. All sentences run consecutively. "

Reads like a resume for Deputy Assistant Director of Homeland Security or a federal judge appointment in the Obama administration. This guy knows the law Outside in.
37 posted on 11/02/2008 4:52:43 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: pissant

Did you notice the similarity between the two pieces of data on Obama’s standard resume? Both his birth in Honolulu and his attendance at Columbia are doubtful. Which makes one wonder what else in that resume is also phony.


38 posted on 11/02/2008 4:59:24 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: BIGLOOK
Algeria must have been significant in the early 70s.

He is pictured here:

http://www.uaacc.habari.co.tz/black_panther_party_in_kansas_ci.htm


Pete and brothers in Algeria including BPP Field Marshall DC; Sekou Odinga; Cetawayo Tabor and Mzee Shakur

Now, look at the picture to the left on that same page.


Pete and Charlotte, in 1971, with one day old son Malcolm, at BPP International Section

That baby's name is Malcolm and he looks white?

Interesting.

39 posted on 11/02/2008 5:11:05 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: LucyT; getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL; Kevmo; Fred Nerks; bvw; null and void; SE Mom; FARS; ...

These pics and link is the history of the Black Panther Party for Kansas City in 1968.

The mystery Odinga from the Brinks robbery is here.

Some whitish looking baby too, one day old in Africa.


40 posted on 11/02/2008 5:13:24 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

“Which means, he knew there would not be a paper trail attached to him with an alias.”

http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/obama-covers-
his-tracks/

OBAMA COVERS HIS TRACKS (Reprint from American Thinker)

PUMA! PUMA FOR McCAIN/PALIN

He won’t allow his transcript from his undergraduate days at Columbia University to be released.

He “lost” his thesis on Soviet nuclear policy (see “Where in the World is Obama’s Missing Thesis“ which might provide insight regarding his seeming lack of knowledge about Soviet policy during the Kennedy years).

He won’t answer questions about his days at Harvard Law School.

He “lost” his Illinois Senate records.

He will only release a simple one-page letter from his doctor on his medical condition.

He won’t release his application to the state bar, which, as National Review’s Jim Geraghty notes raises questions about whether he told the truth about parking tickets and drug use, among other issues.

He won’t disclose list of his clients from his law firm days or the nature of the work he did for them as a lawyer (his clients include the indicted political fixer Tony Rezko).

He walks away from uncomfortable questions about Rezko at a news conference.

His cultists try to shut down inquiry into his stewardship of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge by sliming a journalist investigating his days at the helm of that group, which blew through $100 million dollars with no discernible benefit for the schools and students that it was putatively designed to help (what does the constitutional law lecturer say to the chilling of free speech by his acolytes?).

He tries to muddle his long-standing ties with Pastor Wright by producing a version of his attendance record at Trinity Church that is sharply at variance with previous versions he has given (”Obama Re-invents his Trinity Church History“).

The Wall Street Journal joins the battle over Obama’s past in today’s editorial (”Obama’s Lost Years“):

The Columbia years are a hole in the sprawling Obama hagiography. In his two published memoirs, the 47-year-old Democratic nominee barely mentions his experience there.

He refuses to answer questions about Columbia and New York — which, in this media age, serves only to raise more of them. Why not release his Columbia transcript? Why has his senior essay gone missing? [....]

Voters and the media are now exercising due diligence before Election Day, and they are meeting resistance from Mr. Obama in checking his past. Earlier this year, the AP tracked down Mr. Obama’s New York-era roommate, “Sadik,” in Seattle after the campaign refused to reveal his name. Sohale Siddiqi, his real name, confirmed Mr. Obama’s account that he turned serious in New York and “stopped getting high.” “We were both very lost,” Mr. Siddiqi said. “We were both alienated, although he might not put it that way. He arrived disheveled and without a place to stay.” For some reason the Obama camp wanted this to stay out of public view.

What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends. Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him...


WHO IS HE/ WHAT IS HIS NAME/WHERE WAS HE BORN/HOW OLD IS HE/WHO WAS HIS FATHER/WHAT NATIONALITY IS HE?


41 posted on 11/02/2008 5:14:43 PM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: Calpernia
That baby's name is Malcolm and he looks white?

Yes. I had a white roommate named Malcolm back in the day.

42 posted on 11/02/2008 5:22:53 PM PST by null and void (Socialism doesn't work because of people./People don't work because of socialism...)
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To: pissant

Thanks for posting this- I’m so overwhelmed with the questions left unasked by our press that I don’t know what is going on in our country- but it’s got a really ugly sense about it and I’m praying like I haven’t prayed in years for our nation.


43 posted on 11/02/2008 5:24:47 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: null and void
I knew Malcolms too. But this is the Kansas City Black Panther Chapter. This Malcolm was in Algeria with the Odinga that robbed the Brinks truck.

Too many coincidences to dismiss.

44 posted on 11/02/2008 5:35:26 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: HiFive
Cooper Union is close to Columbia...

Cooper Union is nowhere near Columbia, is one of the most competitive schools in the country (because it is free) and focuses its programs on totally non-political areas like architecture and engineering.

That said, Cooper Union is one of the usual venues for socialist minded people in NYC to meet and they probably met there.

45 posted on 11/02/2008 5:40:41 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

thanks Lucyt.

Discover the Networks: Linking the Cloward-Piven strategy
to every group and individual involved
Discover The Networks: a guide to the poltical Left | 11/02/08 | Polarik
Posted on 11/02/2008 6:59:17 AM PST by Polarik
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2122532/posts

Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper [prelude to Obama!!]
Zombietime | 11/01/08 | Staff
Posted on 11/01/2008 11:37:33 PM PDT by Enchante
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122372/posts


46 posted on 11/02/2008 5:55:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: Kenny Bunk; Calpernia

” who was treated for schizophrenia “

WHO was treated for schizophrenia???? Crazy mother or poor disaffected son??


47 posted on 11/02/2008 5:59:48 PM PST by bitt (I AM Sarah Palin.)
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To: LucyT

so, who’s got the YOUTH vote?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HGp8vqX0rw


48 posted on 11/02/2008 6:20:49 PM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: bitt

That is probably a reference to the Obama’s Mental Health thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2122666/posts

I still didn’t get to read through it yet.


49 posted on 11/02/2008 6:24:14 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Fred Nerks

Awwww. Cute? You betcha!


50 posted on 11/02/2008 6:27:24 PM PST by LucyT
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