Was Barack Obama A Foreign Exchange Student?

IBD Editorials ^ | August 9, 2012

[raptor22]

Transparency: A former classmate has added a tantalizing question to the mysteries surrounding Barack Obama's college years. Perhaps the GOP nominee, whose tax records are demanded, should call the president's bluff.

Not many students whose grades supposedly were good enough to get into Harvard Law School can say that 400 of their classmates taken randomly don't remember a single thing about him or his even being there. But Barack Obama, Columbia University class of '83, can.

Student Obama spent two years at Columbia after transferring there from Occidental College in Los Angeles. And for all the impression he made on his classmates, he might as well have been in the witness protection program.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News called that random group of 400 Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.

Like most transfer students, Obama lived off-campus, a factoid defenders use to explain his apparent lack of human contact during his Columbia years. Obama himself does not speak much about his years at Columbia and Harvard Law, other than he attended both and was elected president of the Harvard Law Review.

Interestingly, Obama contributed not one signed word to the Harvard Law Review or any other legal publication. As Matthew Franck has pointed out in National Review Online, "A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at anytime." A curious factoid for an alleged scholar.

In October 2007, the New York Times ran a piece titled "Obama's Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say," which would have won the Pulitzer Prize for understatements if there was one.

[raptor22]

Barry Soetoro, class clown

[MestaMachine]

Can we exchange him back for a refund?

[Impy]

The Canadian left would probably love to swap him for Harper. I’d make that deal and eat Obama’s salary too.

[Repeal The 17th]

Was Barack Obama A Foreign Exchange Student?
No.
But Barry Soetoro was.

[RC2]

Can any student ask that his/her records not be released to anyone? If not, what gives these schools the authority to not release Obama’s?

[DTogo]

Harry Reid: “The word is out...”

[factoryrat]

We’ll never know because barry & co. spent millions to keep that a secret. That’s a lot of money to spend to keep skeletons in the closet.

[factoryrat]

We’ll never know because barry & co. spent millions to keep that a secret. That’s a lot of money to spend to keep skeletons in the closet.

[fso301]

If not, what gives these schools the authority to not release Obama’s?The law.

[SunkenCiv]

We already know he’s foreign; the sexchange is mythical, probably results from his habit of savoring other men; and, he was a student in a madrassa or two, and maybe in some US public schools. No one remembers him at Columbia because he never went there. Thanks raptor22.

[immadashell]

IMO Barry Soetoro flunked out of Occidental due to excessive pot smoking. Not wanting his classmates to know, he told them he was “transferring” to Columbia (that's impressive) but never got into Columbia because he never applied. He may have “audited” some classes(read, sat in on large lecture classes where he wouldn't be known or recognized or remembered) and then had some of his commie professors write recommendations to Harvard to admit the foreign exchange student Barack Obama. This is affirmative action on steroids.

[iontheball]

Don't know why this is what it is, but Obama has CIA written all over him. Disinformation is how the CIA operates and there is a sh_t load of disinformation covering up Obama’s past.

[bossmechanic]

Geeze.
It’s only taken 5 years to fan the flames of journalistic curiosity.

[fella]

Since Occidental College only has about 2,000 students it may be easier to find someone from his years there that remembers him.

[raptor22]

Barry Soetoro - class clown

[raptor22]

Barry Soetoro - class clown

[patriot08]

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If only America knew...

The best Obama exposure site on the net:
(By our own Beckwith)

The Obama File
http://theobamafile.com/

The United States Library of Congress has selected
TheObamaFile.com for inclusion in its historic collection
of Internet materials
http://theobamafile.com/LibraryOfCongress.html

Just a few pages of ‘The Obama File’:

http://theobamafile.com/index_next_politics.html

http://www.theobamafile.com/index_next_personal.html

http://www.theobamafile.com/BarackObama.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/_family/FamilyPage.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaEducation.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaPsychology.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaReligion.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaWife.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/ObamaAssociates.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaIconography.htm

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[bitt]

ping to the POS-

[ncfool]

Good to see in IBD. This is a credible publication. I hear Brietbart Drip Drip Drip. Can you say October surprise coming.

[cookcounty]

"Can any student ask that his/her records not be released to anyone? If not, what gives these schools the authority to not release Obama’s?"

One's records can ONLY be released if the student signs a release. The only reason Republican's grades (if not flattering) come out is that University Records Offices are pretty much over-run with College bureaucratic hangers-on, who, as a class, tend to be highly unethical when it serves some leftist purpose.