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The fact that Obama did not graduate with any honors has been confirmed by Columbia.

Interesting. But I note that in the comments somoone claiming to be a Columbia student says that Columbia only gives honors to students who are there at least three years. I don't doubt that Obama's Occidental grades may have weighed down his 4-year average as well, although having attended another Ivy league college, I do not recall encountering any totally unqualified students who transferred in.

You can toss that “denial” in the same pile as Obama’s claim that he never knew Rev Wright was a racist and that he didn’t know anything about Ayers’ past. Watch the link on YouTube in which Sutton explains the situation.

I did watch it a few weeks ago and at first I thought it was quite believable. But the fact that they even deny that Sutton wrote a letter, that no one else has connected Obama and al-Mansour, and the fact that Obama did not need the purported Saudi financing since he had taken out loans close to the full tuition cost, leaves the story entirely reliant on the memory and veracity of an 87 year old man.

But I note that in the comments somoone claiming to be a Columbia student says that Columbia only gives honors to students who are there at least three years. Do you actually believe that if Obama had good grades at Columbia we would not know about it? I can't count how many times we've heard about Obama having graduated from HLS with honors. But the fact that they even deny that Sutton wrote a letter, that no one else has connected Obama and al-Mansour, and the fact that Obama did not need the purported Saudi financing since he had taken out loans close to the full tuition cost, leaves the story entirely reliant on the memory and veracity of an 87 year old man. Al-Mansour himself essentially confirmed the story by refusing to deny it. Read the account in Newsmax. Granted, Al-Mansour later said he refused to deny the story out of "courtesy" to Sutton, but that makes no sense. If the story were false, then why not simply deny it? And if he was concerned with being "courteous" to Sutton, why did he later explicitly deny it? In any case, there is simply no credible explanation for why a perfectly coherent Percy Sutton would have fabricated the story. The media again is failing to do its job, which is entirely unsurprising. After all, if it weren't for Stanley Kurtz at the National Review, all we'd know is that Obama and Ayers live in the same neighborhood.