http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-4101
Interesting Thummalapally is Ambassador to Belize, and supposedly “Thummalapally lived with Obama the summer of 1980” . Where California or Hawaii? Obama also supposedly registered for the selective srviced in Hawaii on July 29, 1980....
I don’t think they would’ve been watching very many Laker games in Hawaii back then. That was the same year that Rasmussen first launched ESPN. Thummalapally did not know 0bama during his freshman year and they met at Occidental and were roommates in L.A. He was also Barry while at Occidental.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-4101069.html
Thummalapally lived with Obama the summer of 1980. The two ran together daily, three miles in the early morning, often chatting about their dreams.
Thummalapally came to the United States in 1974 at the age of 19, and attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he first met Obama in 1980. They spent the summer as roommates, debating foreign policy and watching Los Angeles Lakers basketball games. Thummalapally made Indian food for “Barry”—the name Obama went by at that time—teaching him how to make daal.
The two did their share of partying together, although Thummalapally’s reminiscences seem to vary. In one recollection he recalled, “It was so typical that [Obama] could just go and type out this amazing paper and do well after having partied all night, having drinks, beer or whatever we do at college.” But in another account Thummalapally told The New York Times that Obama was a model of moderation—jogging in the morning, playing pickup basketball at the gym, hitting the books and socializing. “If someone passed him a joint, he would take a drag. We’d smoke or have one extra beer, but he would not even do as much as other people on campus,” said Thummalapally. “He was not even close to being a party animal.”