Posted on 07/03/2008 4:35:19 PM PDT by SE Mom
Fred, the article is from 2005 -- the author is a Columbia '93 grad.
The Woods Fund. Specifically
"Ken Rolling, former Executive Director of the CAC and a former staff member of the Woods Fund in the 1980s when the Woods Fund provided financial support to the Developing Communities Project which was then headed up by Barack Obama."Didn't Stanley work for The Woods Fund? If so you have a connection between Chicago power brokers and Obama's mom. Thence follows ...
LucyT ~ Any suggestions for a new title?
Barrack Obama, International man of mystery...
Perfect.
I fold.
That is just part of the flaw in the 'alibi', there. Every school has its library habituees, who would at least recognize each other, and would be known to the library staff as well.
You would think someone would remember him had he been consistently present there.
I just saw that Obama has agreed to appear at Columbia next week with McCain, on the anniversary of 9-11. Given the solemnity of the occasion, probing questions from reporters (or befuddled librarians)will not be on the agenda. Slick.
bvw, you idiot. Ann Dunham-Soetoro worked for the Ford Foundation and Women’s World Bank and in establishing micro-credit loans in developing countries. The Woods Fund is not related, just ignore the Council on Foundations.
Most people would say,”Follow the money” but where did Obama get the money which allowed him to go to Oxy, then Columbia followed by Harvard?
According to this:
“Obama wrote letters to community organizations all around the country asking for a job, but received no positive responses. He ended up working as a research analyst at a consulting company before being promoted to financial writer. “I had my own office, my own secretary and money in the bank,” he says in his book. But he left to pursue his original goal of activism. For six months, Obama carried on another letter-writing campaign seeking a job and worked with an environmental group to encourage City College students to recycle. At last, he landed a job with a nonprofit in Chicago.”
That info was found in the Columbia link provided above, and then from the Harvard link he had managed to pay off his school loans before going to Chicago for his community organizer days. Two years working and he has managed to pay off loans for attending Oxy AND Columbia, with a side trip to Pakistan? I don’t think so! Who is his fairy godmother/banker? Enquiring minds want, nay demand, to know!
This is great data.
Problem is, the Sheep will never listen to it.
I slipped up badly there...sorry.
Barack Obama wished to join the military but the Vietnam war’s end cooled his ardor?
The American Thinker ^ | 09/07/2008 | Ed Lasky
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076750/posts
# 57: Just one problem with Obama’s little story.
Registration for selective service was not reinstated until 1980.
MY MUSLIM FAITH. WHOOPS!
YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076683/posts?page=750#750
Does a university like Columbia have a yearbook with pictures of its students?
So far this is all I have found from his years at Columbia:
‘People who knew him around that time describe a reserved, monkish man, uninterested in the extracurriculars of New York student life: bars, socializing, gossiping. William Araiza was in a political-science seminar with Obama their senior year, and what he remembers most is Obama’s detachment. “I don’t want to imply he was intentionally aloof, he just seemed like he wasn’t part of the college gang,” Araiza says. “He was the kind of guy who didn’t live in the dorms, didn’t hang out on campus.”’
found at the following url but I’ll keep looking.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/145971/page/2
Here’s an article from 1993 I found while looking for more about Obama at Columbia.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence/
Obama says he was somewhat involved with the Black Students Organization and participated in anti-apartheid activities.<<<
I suspect the above is why he is not known and was not in class.
anti-apartheid activities, takes time and energy, the planning and then the attack.
I don’t think that I have heard of one good group that he associated with in his life, nothing “good American” or “Proud to be an American”........all communist related groups.
Was Obama getting enough money, to pay someone to sit in on his classes and take the tests?
He does not strike me as a super smart person.
Even the creep in class is remembered and I remember several from my classes 65 years ago.
The question is where did the money come from? After graduation from Columbia Obama worked first at Business International Corporation:
“United States Senator Barack Obama’s first job after graduating from Columbia University was with the company. He held a position as a research associate in its financial services division, where he edited Financing Foreign Operations, a global reference service, and wrote for Business International Money Report, a weekly financial newsletter.” (wiki sorry time is short to do more research at this time)
From there he went to New York Public Research Group which is funded by students and was started by Ralph Nader. According to the Harvard story these two jobs resulted in his being able to pay off his school loans prior to his move to Chicago. And if you believe that I have some ocean-front property located in Idaho I can sell you! (two years at two mediocre jobs to pay for Oxy and Columbia not counting housing, books etc., and his party-time at Oxy where he did NOT concentrate on his schooling)
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