A new report from jake Tapper regarding 0 appointing big campaign donars and bundlers as ambassadors.
For the record I want to post this paragraph:
Thummalapally was President 0bama’s ROOMMATE at Occidental College in 1979. As Barbara and Vinai Thummalapally described it in the Colorado Springs Gazette, they “used to party with (the president) in college. He was the guy who’d drink a few beers, maybe take a toke, stay up until 4 a.m. then excuse himself to crank out an ‘A’ paper due that morning...He was Barry, the mellow guy in the leather jacket, dragging on a cigarette.”
Apart from the juvenile collegiate behavior described here, were we aware before who was his roomate in Occidental—not just a college friend but the actual roomate? In the comments section, this one stood out from a Jon Hendricks:
“His roommate at Occidental was a foreign born student. That makes him a foreign born student too. Having gone to an
international college, I know that is how they do it.”
I have no idea of whether this is true or not but it seems to me that it opens a path of research that could help determine on what basis 0 was given admission to Occidental. If it is true then it would show that he definitely had to have applied as a foreign student and would have had to supply proper documentation to justify that. Could this be one of the little “leaks”?
“His roommate at Occidental was a foreign born student. That makes him a foreign born student too. Having gone to an international college, I know that is how they do it.”
I have no idea of whether this is true or not but it seems to me that it opens a path of research that could help determine on what basis 0 was given admission to Occidental. If it is true then it would show that he definitely had to have applied as a foreign student and would have had to supply proper documentation to justify that. Could this be one of the little “leaks”?
Ping to #8,030
During the late ‘60s, I worked for a large midwestern University. One of my jobs was to make dormitory assignments. We ALWAYS placed foreign exchange students together as roommates.
Ping to # 8,030 and # 8,033.