Are you already familiar with this?
No, it’s news to me...I knew about his friendship with Chandoo and read something about zero staying with the Chandoo family whilst in Pakistan, but that’s all.
Thanks .. it’s pretty well summarized on
the Breitbart video.
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-b-cast-interview-was-obama-a-committed-marxist-in-college/
found this at Atlas Shrugs:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/its-ramadan-at-obamas-white-house.html
Mr. Hasan Chandoo, Oppenheimer & Co. $100,000 donation bundler and the Pakistani friend whose family opened their home to Obama during his 1981 visit to Pakistan.
Over at Free Republic (hat tip Laura)
“For some reason Barack Obama has never mentioned his three week stay in Pakistan in any of his writings. On the infamous San Francisco trip in which Obama called small town Americans “bitter” he also bragged that he had more foreign policy credentials than Hillary Clinton and John McCain. One of the things he listed on his resume was his extensive foreign travel including a 1981 trip to Pakistan. However since this admission, slip of the tongue, or however you would characterize it, Obama has never mentioned this trip again.
Although his campaign manager did discuss it when pressed:
As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis In 1981, Obama transferred from Occidental to Columbia. In between, he traveled to Pakistan - a trip that enhanced his foreign policy qualifications, he maintained in a private speech at a San Francisco fundraiser last month. Obama spent “about three weeks” in Pakistan, traveling with Hamid and staying in Karachi with Chandoo’s family, said Bill Burton, Obama’s press secretary.
The Chandoo he was referring to is Mohammed Hassan Chandoo which this website claims is now a major campaign bundler for Obama:
Bundler: Hasan Chandoo
Employer: Oppenheimer & Co State: NY Bundler Status for 2008: Bundler for Barack Obama, raised at least $100,000.00