Question for everyone .... If obama graduated from Columbia in 1983 and graduated from Harvard in 1992 . then what was he doing and where was he from 1983 to 1988??? That’s 5 years .... where was he those 5 years ???
Someone posted a copy of a blank Kenyan birth certificate. A Kenyan birth certificate has a second page which contains immunizations at birth, being these are important in African countries. In one of Obama’s books, he states he found his birth certificate among his immunization papers in his father’s belongings. You can’t get more clear than that, lacking his actual kenyan Bc. He’s born in Kenya no doubt (double underscore).
1983-85 he spent in New York, working first for Business International Corp. then for the NY Public Interest Research Group. From 85 to 88 were the "Community Organizer" years in Chicago. Summer 88 was the trip to Kenya. He entered Harvard Law in the Fall of 88 and graduated Spring 91.
Jr graduated in 1983 from Columbia and worked for BIC for a year at a salary of $15,000/yr. He left BIC and worked for NYCPIRG for a year at a salary of less than $10,000/yr. He was offered a “job” as a community organizer/rabble rouser in Chicago for $13,000/yr plus a $2,000/yr travel allowance in the year 1985. He worked in Chicago until his return to University in 1988, with the exception of the time he was in Kenya in 1987 which was approximately one month.
Source: Sunday Times, The, Nov 23, 2008
Section: Overseas news, pg. 24 - News
Family A cache of letters reveals the influences that helped shape the young Obama
Christine Finn in Honolulu and Sarah Baxter report
(excerpt)
".....The three volumes of [Stanley Ann] Dunham’s unpublished PhD on blacksmithing -a study of the economics of a village industry -have pride of place in her office. Dewey has also kept her friend’s private correspondence, in which Dunham wrote affectionately of her children. “Maya hates me to brag,” one letter reads, “but I am forced to mention that she made high honours this term.” It goes on to describe how “Barry is working in New York this year, saving his pennies so he can travel”.
Her son’s job, according to Dunham, was to write reports for a consultancy on social, economic and political conditions in the Third World. In those days Obama was a young radical. “He calls it ‘working for the enemy’ because some of the reports are written for commercial firms that want to invest in those countries,” Dunham wrote. “He seems to be learning a lot about the realities of international finance and politics ... that information will stand him in good stead for the future.”
(snip) "...“The major reason for the delay in my return to Hawaii (was) the need to work to put my son through college,” she wrote. “I am happy to say that he graduated from Columbia (University) in June, so that I am free to continue my own studies.”
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Found this on a ProQuest Search Is this the first we have read regarding who paid his college tuition?
Barf alert!
President-Elect Barack Obama’s Work History as an Organizer with
the New York Public Interest Research Group
NYPIRG: An Overview. NYPIRG is New York State’s largest student-directed consumer, environmental and government reform organization. We are a nonpartisan, not-for-profit group established to effect policy reforms while training students and other New Yorkers to be advocates. NYPIRG’s 21 college campus chapters provide much of NYPIRG’s energy, resources, and activism. Each campus chapter consists of at least one full-time staff organizer – the position held by Senator Obama – and a large core of student volunteers.
Senator Obama’s Role as a NYPIRG Project Coordinator. As mentioned in his autobiography, Dreams for My Father, Senator Obama was hired in his first job as an organizer as a “Project Coordinator” in February 1985 to run NYPIRG’s office at the City College of New York. He continued in this position for approximately three months until the end of the academic year. During a typical work week, Project Coordinators are expected to both educate and motivate students to develop their organizational skills by working on a wide variety of public interest projects. Project Coordinators are also expected to advance NYPIRG’s project work through their own efforts. Senator Obama received training from NYPIRG on advocacy skills and issues including: effective public speaking, structuring campaigns, increasing voter participation, public mass transit, and funding for higher education. While NYPIRG’s records from this time are limited, this document also relies on the recollections of NYPIRG staff members from that time, some of whom still work for the organization.
Specific Examples of Senator Obama’s Work as a Project Coordinator
* Recruitment. Senator Obama was expected to recruit and educate students on a wide variety of topics and to train them with skills needed to run successful campaigns on or off campus. Public speaking, designing campaign timelines, motivating volunteers and teaching skills were components of this work.
* Administrative. Senator Obama was responsible for maintaining ongoing contact with a wide range of campus entities including the campus administration, student government and other organizations. Administrative responsibilities also included running NYPIRG’s City College office.
* The Fight for Better Mass Transit. NYPIRG’s Straphangers Campaign continued to chronicle the sorry state of the city’s subways and to push for better service. Senator Obama helped recruit and coordinate surveyors at City College for the Straphangers Campaign Report Back to Go (and is credited in the fall 1985 report as a surveyor). Straphangers Campaign reports such as these played an ongoing role in mobilizing support to rebuild the city’s crumbling mass transit system. A NYPIRG document notes that Senator Obama also organized hundreds of City College students to write letters in support of improvements to the city’s transit system.
* Student Empowerment/Voter Participation. Senator Obama oversaw NYPIRG’s nonpartisan voter registration work at the City College campus. This included learning the mechanics of registration and motivating students to become engaged in the political process.
* Ahead of the Curve/Environmental Justice. Senator Obama worked to raise awareness of the benefits of recycling as NYPIRG helped lead a campaign opposing plans for a municipal trash incinerator in Brooklyn, a proposal which was ultimately defeated. Senator Obama’s work included recruiting and preparing students to meet with state legislators in Albany on environmental issues. Campus chapters also worked to increase funding to clean up toxic waste sites.
* Support for Higher Education. As noted in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama’s work included educating students on the politics and specifics of public support for higher education. This included recruiting and driving a carload of City College students to Washington D.C. to participate in a lobby day in support of the Higher Education Reauthorization Act. Our records confirm that Senator Obama also generated hundreds of letters from students at City College to public officials in support of adequate funding for higher education during his time on campus.
Conclusion In the 23 years since Senator Obama’s work as an organizer at NYPIRG, much of the work and responsibilities of a Project Coordinator have remained constant. The position requires an enormous dedication to public service and a commitment to bettering the lives of others. The rewards are many, including having a direct impact on important policy decisions affecting New Yorkers, educating and empowering new generations of students to become engaged in the political process, and personal and professional development. NYPIRG considers itself fortunate to have provided Senator Obama, and so many others, the opportunity to work as an organizer on our behalf.
“Question for everyone .... If obama graduated from Columbia in 1983 and graduated from Harvard in 1992 . then what was he doing and where was he from 1983 to 1988??? That’s 5 years .... where was he those 5 years ???”
Maybe Russia?????