Actually there is a third rail: the massive file of hidden from the public documents referencing his life as an Indonesia, college entry records, grades, tuition paid by whom (we know some of that came from Islamic sources), and the record of his leagl names.
I don’t understand why people are so hung up on how he afforded college.
I attended a school with a total cost in the $28,0000 range and my parents were probably making about $65,000 combined then. I finished after four years with somewhere in the neighborhood of $10K in student loans - or what it would have cost me to buy a Hyundai back then.
This will sound crazy, but if you are poor, it is much cheaper to go to an expensive private school than to a more reasonable private school.
Obama - as a strong minority candidate duringe the height of affirmative action in admissions and financial aid offices - probably had people begging for the opportunity to give him money.