Last fall the blogger named Zombie did some investigating of 0’s Columbia years and came to some rather frustrating conlusions because there was little evidence if any that he was living the life described in Dreams. (I hope this doesn’t come out with lots of strange letters and stuff because I’m pasting it out of a Word document.)
“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. In about 1982, Siddiqi and Obama got an apartment at a sixth-floor walkup on East 94th Street.”
That’s seven different locations in total.
However, a quick perusal of the phone books from the period suggest otherwise — that Obama moved into that 94th Street apartment shortly after first arriving, and stayed there the rest of the time while in New York: This page from the 1982 Manhattan phonebook lists “B. Obama” as living at 339 East 94th St. (The 1982 directory is the first one Obama could have appeared in, since the 1981 directory was printed before Obama’s arrival.)
Yet this page, from the 1985 Manhattan phonebook, shows that he was still living at the same address — even having the same phone number. And he was in the following year’s directory as well, still at 339 East 94th St.
How could that be? As Obama’s campaign said in the quote above, and as Obama details in Dreams From My Father, he moved several times while in New York, sometimes sharing a room with others.
The only feasible explanation would be that Obama rented the 339 East 94th St. apartment (shown here), and then moved out while subleasing it to others, still maintaining the apartment and the phone in his name. And while acting as a sort of freelance landlord, collecting renting from his sublessors, he was still broke and kept having to move from place to place himself.
But seriously: How likely is that? It’s much more likely that Obama simply stayed in this one location the entire time, and later concocted a tale of being poor and itinerant as part of some narrative about his rise from poverty, or something along those lines.
Zombie also includes photos of some of the alleged residences and the phone directory pages.
http://www.zombietime.com/obama_and_the_weather_underground/
This just adds more to the mound of 0’s lies and misrepresentations about his life.
Wow! Saving to my hard drive. Will re-read and follow all the links tomorrow.
The only other thing that hit me was that Sinclair said BO was not circumcised. When my son was born in a hospital that was done as a matter of routine without even consulting us. Would the same be for Hawaii? OTOH People born at home or in some other cultures are not circumcised.
Zombietime is one of the web sites that SInclair state is a puppet of Obama. He uses it to manipulate information.
It might be interesting to see who owned the 94th street apartment. To my understanding, you don’t just show up in town and immediately blunder into an apartment to sublet long term, in NYC.
It was common for college kids to move a lot, or to save money by moving in with someone else, and then sublet the old apartment (usually to someone you knew, so you could be sure they'd pay you). Inexpensive apartments were hard to come by in a college area (or a decent neighborhood). It was also common to have a phone that wasn't in your name -- by keeping an existing phone account, you could avoid paying the security deposit. I remember at one point in the late '60's it was tough even getting a new phone number in NYC, and you might wait weeks to get one hooked up, so existing lines were valuable.
The West Side apartment that he describes living in by himself in the book checks out -- but he had a white roommate he never mentioned. Columbia magazine ran with that after the election, and a NYT blog picked it up on January 20. (Neither mention how it contradicts the book -- funny how that happens.) The roommate (from Occidental) also says Obama moved into a studio after one semester, not into Siddiqui's East Side apartment as told in "the official narrative of The One."