Below is a list of Barack Obama’s friends and roommates who knew him in high school and college.
* Robert McCrary a former classmate at Occidental College. McCrary is now a general manager of a contract sewing company. He saw Obama as “cocky, sometimes arrogant...and not open to others.”
* Paul Carpenter Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental and now a Los Angeles lawyer. Carpenter recalls Obama being a “a good bodysurfer”, “an athletic guy”, and “superbright”.
* Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York’s Lehman College.
* Jon K. Mitchell a friend from Occidental who now plays bass for the country-swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
* Imad Husain a Pakistani and Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental. Husain is now a Boston banker.
* Mohammed Hasan Chandoo a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. He is a now a self-employed financial consultant living in Armonk, New York.
* Wahid Hamid a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. Hamid and Obama traveled to Karachi, Pakistan after graduation from Occidental and stayed with the family of Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York City.
* Vinai Thummalapally an Obama college roommate in the summer of 1980. Thummalapally is from Hyderabad, India. Obama visited Hyderabad, India and Karachi, Pakistan during a three week period with Wahid Hamid after his graduation from Occidental. [1] He is president of a CD and DVD manufacturing company in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
* Sohale Siddiqi is identified as “Sadik” in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, and is described as “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan, and Obama’s roommate when he attended Columbia University. Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia and became an illegal having over stay his tourist visa. [2] Obama knew Saddiqi when he visited Chandoo and Hamid at Occidental. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now lives in Seattle working for a community theater.
* Andrew Roth knew Obama at Occidental College and in New York City. Roth said that back then “The thought...never crossed my mind that he would be our first black president.”
* Cassandra Butts a friend from law school who now works at the Center for American Progress. Of Obama she said, “People see in him what they want to see.”
* Michael Froman a friend from law school and now an executive at Citigroup.
* Laurence Tribe a professor at Harvard who said Obama was one of his two best students. “He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of information.” [3]
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“He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of information.” [3]
thesis - antithesis - synthesis
working from “the world as it is” toward “the world as it should be”
there’s no witch-hunt necessary....this guy is in plain sunlight!