“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.
The point I was trying to make is that it’s easy to file a fake transcript for someone. His name on the graduation program would have been placed there by school officials based on his official “transcript” fake or not.I would not be surprised that a number of people have also done what we think obama did. No professor remembers all the students that pass though their class especially 30 years ago.This is what makes the scam so easy to pull off.