Right.. walla, viola, valhalla. Yeah, I knew the word was dubious, but it was late so I mashed the "post" button.
Viola
Posted on 03/24/2011 10:24:54 PM PDT by Red Steel
Never try to correct grammar and usage on this board. It will be an endless (and fruitless) effort!You'll find yourself correcting endless misplaced and misused apostrophes and other sins. (sarc/off)
“He also found that on one of Obama’s entry questioners the country of origin is listed as an Equatorial Guinea, not Kenya or Hawaii.”
It just so happens that there is a diplomat from that nation with the last name, Obama. They’re very close in age, too.
I caused a stir on one blog three years ago but the individual from Equatorial Guinea is not a relative to BHO.
I hate to say this but I don’t care how much evidence orly turns up,No judge is going to force this clown out of the White House.We’ll all be paying for it as a result.
Obama’s only started with his plan to destroy this country economically,militarily and otherwise.He needs another term to finish the destruction.
I’m reading Jack Cashill’s book “Deconstructing Obama”. In one of Obama’s books he goes on at length about a relationship he had with a wealthy young woman. Where is she and why not come forward? Maybe, because she was someone that Bill Ayers created for Obama from his own experience.
“I note also that Connolly is a spokesman without giving his official office with the university.”
There’s no question Brian Connolly is connected with Columbia in their Office of Communications and Public Affairs. http://news.columbia.edu/brian-f-connolly
It would make perfect sense for such an individual be in charged of handling press queries about Obama’s attendance there.
“I also note that the one solid official university document presented states he (actually) attended only one school year to get his degree.”
Look more carefully. It is NOT an official Columbia document. It is an entry in a database that aggregates information from thousands of colleges/universities across the country.
Which makes more sense to you: that a database might contain an error or that an Ivy League university would purposefully mistate a material fact that at any future point could be demonstrated to be a lie should someone unearth some future info about Obama’s true whereabouts during academic year 1981-1982?
Connolly didn’t have to explicitly lie. He could have as easily said “yes, our records confirm Obama graduated in 1983.” He could have deflected questions about when Obama started by saying “that information is protected by FERPA” or he even could have misled people by saying “our records show he transferred from Occidental and graduated in 1983” letting people mistakenly fill in the blanks. The advantage of the latter approach is that it isn’t a flat-out lie. Should later information prove Obama wasn’t there for academic year 1981-82, he could just say “Well you didn’t ask me that. Obama did transfer from Occidental and he did graduate in 1983.” End of story. Why needlessly risk getting fired because you told a provable lie as spokesperson for your employer?
“82 and 83 two years.”
Sorry, but academics speak in terms of academic years. September 82-May 83 is a single academic year. When someone says so-and-so went to college for 2 years, they’re talking about academic years, even though the time period in question covered pieces of 3 separate calendar years. Know any 4-year college graduates who say they attended college for 5 years?
“It just so happens that there is a diplomat from that nation with the last name, Obama. They’re very close in age, too.”
This is what’s so damaging about Taitz’s “everything and the kitchen sink” approach to compiling “evidence.” To talk about dozens of different SSNs for Obama doesn’t pass the sniff test: instead, it makes Taitz look like she doesn’t know how to separate wheat from chaff. What would be more convincing is to focus on the 2 or possibly 3 SSNs that plausibly could be Obama’s, i.e., appear on documents already KNOWN to be his or that at least use addresses where he plausibly would have lived in NYC or Cambridge etc.
If she truly believes this “Equatorial Guinea” Obama actually is the same person as POTUS, then she really is a flake. But if she doesn’t such information doesn’t belong in her pleading at all, as it greatly undercuts her credibility.
“her plans to protect Obama by making it look like his opponents are all nutcases are working well.”
Given her track record to date, I’d say that’s a hypothesis that’s at least competitive with the idea that she’s actually trying to get him removed from office. I believe she greatly tarnishes the image of birthers and makes it way easier to ridicule them.
LOL. As a general rule, I don't play spelling/grammar cop unless the other poster is trying to lord their intellectual/academic credentials, making statements about the intelligence of others or trumpeting their ability to clearly and effectively communicate. Once they've introduced those things as part of the discourse, I consider them fair game :-)
Right.. walla, viola, valhalla. Yeah, I knew the word was dubious, but it was late so I mashed the "post" button.
Viola
Nitpicking. People on the Internet usually accept informal writings. If people want to play this game, we can play.
An Obama attorney could have drafted the statement...hence the two years.
Worse than that! They would declare what a bold display of leadership that was. Then we would see Biden and the other Democrats with their Daily Ding-Dong Display. Barney Frank would be in Heaven and the homo vote would be locked up as tight (pun) as the black vote.
Yes, I know you are right. I am just trying to shine one tiny ray of light into the darkness. I tried for years to eliminate the irritating redundancy "Each and every ... ". I was told that it was said to add emphasis. Well, duh! All redundancies are to either add emphasis or because the speaker is insecure in his own knowledge or of the knowledge of the listener. It is still redundant, just like, "I raised it up." Even Rush still says, Each and every.
Embarrassingly, I have even made grammatical mistakes while correcting someone else's. I should know better but obviously, I don't.
“Know any 4-year college graduates who say they attended college for 5 years?”
Pretty much everyone at BYU.
I teach at a college. This is two semesters in one year, not two years.
I have a daughter that worked in a university records department. She says it is real easy for someone to fake college records. If obama registered at the college and then he or a friend(in the records dept) “added” a history for him to make it appeared that he finished college there , it would appear though he graduated from that college. When the college checked on him ,these are the records that they would access. Of course if someone were to cross check records, errors would appear. If attendance records show that he was only there for nine months, then his “school records” are faked. It is highly likely that the school now knows that his records are fake.
The situation with the SSNs has been around since long before the national election in 2008, so don’t be so hard on Taitz. She has done a great deal to confront the issues involving Obama, and suffered a great deal, to keep this in front of those who are interested in the truth.
I used to comment on the now non-existent Texas Darling blog in 2008. On that blog one poster discovered that in April, 2008, Barak Obama, Michelle Robinson Obama, and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro, had something like one hundred forty-four (144) SSNs altogether. Stanley Ann is supposed to be dead so why would she have SSNs? More weirdly, why would she be living with her son and daughter-in-law?.
Granted, some of them just might have been other, unrelated people. But a number of these SSNs had ALL three people cohabiting together at the same address. If the situation wasn’t fraudulent it would be a huge coincidence, particularly if it just happened once, but this had happened several times.
The number of SSNs dropped considerably after the nominating conventions in the fall of 2008, and have continued to dwindle.
Here is my supposition: I suspect the majority of SSNs was used for laundering illegal overseas donations which came through a bank on the Island of Madeira.
The number of remaining SSNs may just be people with similar names or forgotten SSNs and addresses used by the Obamas for — whatever!
“She says it is real easy for someone to fake college records”
I don’t doubt that it is, but consider the following:
“A program from the 1983 graduation ceremony lists him as a graduate.”http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/
I suppose in theory Obama could have faked graduating from Columbia in order to get admitted to Harvard: after all, an Ivy League degree is worth rather considerably more than a degree from Occidental would have been in terms of getting his application seriously considered up in Cambridge. But if this is a fabrication, why go to the bother of putting his name in the graduation program? Did he seriously think someone at HLS was going to check up on this? And if they thought they would be this meticulous, then surely it would have been far riskier to put on his fabricated transcript courses he’d allegedly taken from Columbia faculty that folks up at HLS might easily have known and contacted informally to check out his real academic potential.
“If attendance records show that he was only there for nine months, then his “school records” are faked.”
But the records uncovered by Taitz AREN’T attendance records. They’re somehow abstracted from each institution’s administrative records. Thus, if Obama had faked a Columbia record for a missing year of attendance, presumably that year’s fake record would have been caught up in the same sweep that flagged the one year that is listed.
We know with reasonable certainty he attended Occidental for only 2 years. We know with reasonable certainty he graduated from Columbia. But since it’s extremely unlikely Columbia would confer a degree on a non-honors student with only 3 years of completed coursework, it seems way more reasonable to infer that the database was wrong and inadvertently never abstracted his junior year.
For all we know, that’s because he changed names from Obama at Occidental to Soetoro to get admitted and then changed back to Obama by senior year. Thus, searching for Obama only reveals the senior year record, but leaves out the year he called himself Soetoro. This obviously is pure speculation, but I’m just trying to offer a plausible explanation that does not rely on the database necessarily having made a “mistake” in missing his junior year.
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