he may have never been there...
he may have never been there...
I get such a kick out of your ‘visual aids’. Where’s that reversed right hand placed on the left shoulder by papa Stanley? What? You mean you didnt realize the pic of three with the hand over Barry’s left shoulder was the right hand reverse (negative turned over and made positive) and placed over the shoulder? pfffft
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Now that is frightening (and funny). I knew that the photo with the three of them on the bench had been photoshopped but had never seen the one with the Dunhams sitting together. Mr. D.’s arm and hand now look normal.
Is there any information about B.O. that has not been dry-cleaned and sanitized?
OMG; I thought you were kidding til I read the other posts & then looked at the picture again. I have encountered more scrubbed sites, 404’s, and non-existent urls on wayback machine in the last 2 days than I have in the last 15 yrs combined-—not to mention conflicting information. I was interested in the periods he most tried to hide or disguise of the early days -— Ann, post-baby in Washington; his 80’s trip to Kenya; & Columbia U.
Is his true story ever going to come out?!! I came across a mention that Fox News had interviewed 400 former Columbia U. classmates and not one remembered him.
Are you suggesting he may never have gone to Columbia U? What about Phil Boerner’s credibility?
Phil Boerner ’84: “We both transferred from Oxy to Columbia in fall 1981. Barack had found an apartment on West 109th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus, and suggested that I room with him.....After that first semester, we had to move. Barack tried to find an apartment for both of us, but was only able to find a studio for himself. I was able to house-sit in Brooklyn Heights....
Through different living arrangements in Astoria, Queens; Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; and all over Manhattan, we stayed in touch and remained friends for the rest of our college years. He got to know my girlfriend from Arkansas, who is now my wife. Since I last saw him in 1985, we have exchanged a few letters and photos. He left for Chicago, and I eventually settled in Sacramento.”
http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan_feb09/alumni_corner
“In about 1982, [(Hal) Sohale] Siddiqi and Obama got an apartment at a sixth-floor walkup on East 94th Street. Siddiqi managed to get the apartment thanks to subterfuge.
Siddiqi said his female friends thought Obama was “a hunk.” “We were always competing,” he said. “You know how it is. You go to a bar and you try hitting on the girls. He had a lot more success. I wouldn’t outcompete him in picking up girls, that’s for sure.”
The Obama campaign declined to discuss Obama’s time at Columbia and his friendships in general. It won’t, for example, release his transcript or name his friends. It did, however, list five locations where Obama lived during his four years here: three on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and two in Brooklyn — one in Park Slope, the other in Brooklyn Heights.
His memoir mentions two others on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.”
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F1C46FDE-3048-5C12-00ED1702A906DC5F