Posted on 12/31/2009 6:39:26 AM PST by sushiman
James David Manning questions whether or not Obama ever attended Columbia. Heavy stuff .
This has been adequately handled. After Oxy, where he was mentored by a pal of Bill Ayers', BHO, Jr. went to Columbia University School of General Studies, a walk-in operation, in which, if you pay your substantial money, do well enough, and take the right sequence of courses, you can actually get a degree issued by Columbia College. There is no way a Columbia College or Harvard College man would get to know a guy from General Studies, unless they shared a class.
Most major universities offer this "off-the-street" General Studies option. It's a moneymaker for them. BHO, Jr. was put there by Bill Ayers, whose girlfriend Bernadette Dohrn's sister was a faculty member. He was there. He graduated. What he did, where he went, who his friends were, and above all who paid the very steep General Studies fees, are what we don't know.
BHO, Jr. is bad enough without The Good Reverend pitching bullshiite into the fan. I now automatically suspect those spreading untrue anti-Obama stuff as provocateurs actually working for Obama. (contact me for a list) Easily refuted charges make the very real stuff harder to pin on the SOB.
synonyms see deception, imposture
I'd say that pretty much sums up Soetoro the Usurper.
BUMP!!!
So if there is a "walk on" program that Obama could have attended, it makes sense. He could still claim he went to Columbia, be tutored (or more) by Ayer's contacts and move on to Harvard Law based on affirmative action and payoffs by powerful and rich Arab money men.
No wonder the "smartest man in the US" doesn't want to release his records. I mean all one has to do is listen to him off the teleprompter or watch his actions. The man has no historical grasp of things, no context in which to base his "philosophy" constantly misuses words and is clearly not all that smart. I'm not saying he's dumb but clearly is not the intellectual powerhouse that he's made out to be.
The trick is to put together these courses and matriculate as a student of the U, so you can get a real diploma. You can even sign up for and be accepted into the U's best classes. If you do it right, you get a genuine degree, like Obama's. Those "Executive Courses" are something like it.
So Obama really did go to Columbia. However, it is a real stretch for him to claim he is an honest to God "Columbia Man," i.e., one of the high SAT guys who gets into the real Columbia College for four years of Ivy League education at its best, complete with crew, pretty coeds, and football.
Of course, we will never see his SAT scores, his LSAT scores (if he ever took it), or any of his academic records. If he had high SATs, IMHO, he would have been snapped up as an AAA by a far more prestigious operation than dear old Oxy. His fancy prep school, Punahou, is a really good "push" for the Ivy League, so odds are (IMHO) he was an indifferent student with average or below grades.
Kenny I think you have hit this just right. I would be willing to bet that you are 100% correct.
In the alternate universe of Planet Obama, that is very cold comfort, indeed.
Too true.
First off , nobody has seen any documentation validating Obama’s having attended Columbia .
Why wouldn’t Obama’s photo appear in the yearbooks ? No mention of his name even . No professors have come forward to say they taught him . Nobody remembers him . Odd ...Now if he hadn’t become POTUS I could understand that , but ...
Now , thanks to Saudi money , the same money that bought the election for him , he might have gotten in to Columbia even with his medicore grades , and that same money probably bought him a diploma that allowed him to get to Harvard which they also paid for . That doesn’t mean he ever attended any classes . We do know he went to Pakistan during the years he was supposedly studying at Columbia .It’s quite possible from Pakistan he went to Afghanistan for Al Quaeda training .
Ever wondered why he bowed so low to King Abdullah when he visited him , and kissed his ring ? Because he owes him EVERYTHING , and because he is a MUSLIM . America was/is for sale and the Saudis bought th Presidency . They own a sizeable chunk of FOX News so I am told .
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His diploma is valid, as attested to by the University. He did his courses at General Studies, and then presented them for a degree. Happens all the time. To get into General Studies required showing up with a check. No SATs, no nothin'.
As a general Studies student, there is no yearbook hoopla, no class ring, no contact with the elite at Columbia College unless he shared the occasional class with them. General Studies classes are often held at night, and others are seminar type, papers are required and it is fair to say that their quality is uneven.
Get over it. BHO,JR. has a valid Columbia Bachelors. How, and what he did to get it is the mystery. Where he was in Pakistan, how he got there, whether or not he described himself at the time as a "foreign student," what passport(s) he held, and where he went with them; all of that are subjects of mystery and inquiry. Concentrate on the real stuff, not the Team Obama throwaway red herrings spread to confuse everyone.
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Just when you think you found the last LIE of his, you will find 1000 more, and 1000 more behind them and so forth.
This thread is a critically important expose on OBOZO! If this is true, and it certainly makes logical sense, then the BOZO is a total Fraud, bought and paid for by reprehensible Enemies of America...
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