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Barack Obama ’83, My Columbia College Roommate
Columbia College Today - Alumni Corner ^
| Jan/Feb. 2009
| By Phil Boerner ’84
Posted on 02/19/2010 5:44:47 PM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: stanley windrush
I’m the exact age as these people and it was sometime around ‘79 we had to sign up for selective service. It was during that time that concerns about the draft came up again.
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:15:05 PM PST
by
weef
To: Smokeyblue
BS!!!this comes out just as Reverend Manning’s video?
Lends credence to what I had supposed was a crazy rant....
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:15:09 PM PST
by
mo
To: Smokeyblue
This one article appears to have been used quite extensively by the libtards to prove that the Zero attended Columbia. There are some inaccuracies in the authors story(draft was discontinued 10 years before, the Iranian hostages were already released, to name a few)that make this whole story ring not quite accurate...bordering on fantasy.
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:17:18 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
To: Smokeyblue; Candor7; Beckwith; Fred Nerks; BIGLOOK; LucyT; forkinsocket
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:17:28 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
I kinda thought the reference to no computer at the time was odd, since few people would have had them at that time. I mean it’s true, but why mention it?
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:21:16 PM PST
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: chooseascreennamepat
Odd, isn’t it? I don’t really have anything to say about it other than how remarkably inconsequential the story is....but after a figurative .0001 mm Hg near-absolute vacuum of info about this guy’s history and background, most notably stuff that should be readily obtainable....what comes out is this utter nothingburger.
You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of those old pix of Stalin along the River Neva in St. Petersburg (somebody posted it the other day) where pix #1 has Uncle Joe and three cohorts, and pix #2 has only two guys in it...with the river, complete with waves, painstakingly painted in in place of the missing guy’s image. As if he were never there.
Except this is in reverse.
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:21:19 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
To: Soothesayer
hahaha sounds a bit contrived.
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:21:30 PM PST
by
dalebert
To: Smokeyblue
My views and those of several people I know, changed a lot from College, until today.
Mine shifted about 180 degrees, around age 28.
To: crazyhorse691
So this is old news. I was reading a different article about Obama and then googled “Barack+columbia” and it came up.
It’s the first time I’ve heard of this guy.
To: campaignPete R-CT
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:33:16 PM PST
by
campaignPete R-CT
("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
To: Smokeyblue
I recall it was “Draft Beer Not Students” as opposed to People.
To: george76
SOURCE LINK
The same rug on the floor, but nothing else it the same...
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:36:20 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: Smokeyblue
Until I read that the “roomie” said he had a wife, the story read like a boyfriend/boyfriend love story.
where are the pics of this guy with Barry?
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:43:19 PM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline.)
To: stanley windrush
Not only that, but the Iran-Contra stuff hadn’t happened yet.
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:50:17 PM PST
by
visualops
(Freepin' on my Pre!)
To: stanley windrush
I believe the draft ended in 1975.Actually, drafting people into the Army ended in 1971, but the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 had prompted Pres Carter to reinstitute draft registration for 18 year olds. It wasn't the draft that students were protesting in 1980, but the requirement to register for a new draft.
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:52:42 PM PST
by
Snickersnee
(Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
To: Smokeyblue
To: visualops
Not only that, but the Iran-Contra stuff hadnt happened yet.
He doesn't say Iran-Contra, which didn't come to light until later. He says the hostages in Iran and Contras in Latin American, which were certainly part of the news at the time.
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posted on
02/19/2010 6:59:17 PM PST
by
drjimmy
To: Smokeyblue
“We attended rallies on campus where we were urged to draft beer, not people,
Hmmm. That sounds like a relic from the 60’s, not the 80’s. There was no draft in 1983. That sounds like an inauthentic detail.
To: Smokeyblue
In that apartment we hosted a number of visitors, mostly friends from Oxy
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A number of visitors? Hm? As in a lot?
Gee! I would think these visitors would have come forward. Imagine visiting a person who would later become the president of the United States of America.
I would think they would be pleased to give interviews about these visits.
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:01:11 PM PST
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
To: Fred Nerks
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posted on
02/19/2010 7:04:32 PM PST
by
AdamBomb
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