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‘Never heard of him’: Notable Columbia prof says he isn’t sure Obama attended Columbia University
Campus Reform.org ^ | 14JUN2013 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 05/23/2025 6:37:13 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide

In a recent interview, a well-known professor who taught at Columbia University for 46 years questioned whether or not President Obama actually attended the Ivy League school.

Prominent Columbia professor Henry Graff says he isn’t sure President Obama ever attended the Ivy League school.

“I taught every significant politician that ever studied at Columbia,” said Columbia Emeritus Professor of History Henry Graff, in an interview last week with Wayne Root, a contributor at The Blaze. “Between American History and Diplomatic History, one way or another, they all had to come through my classes.”

“Not Obama,” he continued. “I never had a student with that name in any of my classes. I never met him, never saw him, never heard of him.”

Graff alleged that “none of the other Columbia professors knew him either” and said he is “very upset” to hear Obama referred to as a graduate of Columbia University.

“I am angry when I hear Obama called ‘the first President of the United States from Columbia University,’” he said. “I don’t consider him a Columbia student. I have no idea what he did on the Columbia campus. No one knows him.”

Graff is the recipient of the Kaul Foundation Award of Excellence in the field of education, an honor that is tied to a prize of $100,000. He is the author of multiple books and is known for teaching the first course on the history of the Presidency.


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To: Dilbert San Diego

That, and he used someone else’s SSN. His has a east coast prefix and he wasn’t born on the east coast.


21 posted on 05/23/2025 7:04:13 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
We have been told that Obama went to Occidental College, Columbia, and then Harvard Law. Have we ever seen transcripts or diplomas? It should be fairly easy to document his educational record.

I'm sure the people who made the birth certificate can whip up a few transcripts and diplomas if the need arises (which it probably won't.)

22 posted on 05/23/2025 7:09:12 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: WildHighlander57

Two witnesses made the claim—you can listen to the six hour video I posted and decide for yourself.

Lol.


23 posted on 05/23/2025 7:09:29 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: DownInFlames

Yup—nothing about Obama’s background holds together under the slightest scrutiny.


24 posted on 05/23/2025 7:10:24 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Jonty30

I have been hearing that for over 10 years. Its another hoax the dems put over on the American Taxpayer. Obozo never attended law school. He stated categorically that the USA had only 47 States in the Union.


25 posted on 05/23/2025 7:12:08 AM PDT by chopperk (airhigeroi)
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To: rktman

??

I saw almost NOTHING of anything from this guys past!
He was so accomplished, yet a ghost!!
Hmmmmmmmm?


26 posted on 05/23/2025 7:20:28 AM PDT by bantam
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To: WildHighlander57
The article is behind a paywall - this is all I could glean:

"The Columbia years are a hole in the sprawling Obama hagiography. In his two published memoirs, the 47-year-old Democratic nominee barely mentions his experience there. He refuses to answer questions about Columbia and New York -- which, in this media age, serves only to raise more of them. Why not release his Columbia transcript? Why has his senior essay gone missing?"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122108881386721289

27 posted on 05/23/2025 7:21:35 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

I doubt that lying maggot, Obama, ever attended any college or university. Those institutions are none for the deadbeat bar flies who hang around campus student unions pretending to be brilliant, professional academics while stirring up commie BS among the students although they’ve never been enrolled at the joint.


28 posted on 05/23/2025 7:22:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Certainly someone must have a list of students who earned degrees from Columbia the year Obama said he graduated. Did any of the New York City newspapers publish a list of those students who graduated?


29 posted on 05/23/2025 7:23:09 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Tom Tetroxide

When I was in college we had a Business Strategy course that was well known as a “GPA destroyer.” It was a senior level class that was well known as the most difficult course in our major. It was the one of few classes taught by this particular professor who was known as kind of a jerk.

I managed to avoid him in all of my lower level courses. At the end of my junior year, I found a similar course to “Strategies” at a local state college that I could take over the summer. A buddy and I went to the department head and got permission to take this course. For some odd reason, it was approved.

At the end of my senior year we had a “dinner” for the graduates in my major. This jerk professor approached me and asked who I was…stating that he did not remember me in any of his classes, especially is Strategies class. I told hm that my strategy was to avoid taking his class—something I had planned for two years before my senior year.

He laughed and said that was probably the best strategy he had heard in a while.

Sometimes professors who “teach everyone” are the professors you want to avoid. This story sounds like one of those.


30 posted on 05/23/2025 7:25:58 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Obama’s birth certificate is now sealed forever in Hawaiian Archives. Approved by republican governor Linda Lingle. We’ll never know.


31 posted on 05/23/2025 7:38:36 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Tom Tetroxide
”Obama was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars.”

Articles like this are used as camouflage to discredit legitimate reports.

This is all it takes for most people to dismiss Obama corruption as nutty conspiracy theories.

32 posted on 05/23/2025 7:41:21 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: DownInFlames
The 042(first three numbers) of his SS number is specifically for the people born in Connecticut.

Obama was allegedly born in Hawaii.
It is theorized that his Grandmother(mothers mother) who he was living with worked where she had access to the SS of people who recently died. Some guy who was born in CT died in Oahu. She used that SS # for her grandson who had just moved there from Indonesia with his mom/her daughter.

33 posted on 05/23/2025 7:41:46 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Tom Tetroxide

The elusive “Senior Thesis”—

https://newrepublic.com/article/43137/obamas-senior-thesis

The college work of Hillary, Michelle, and Barak are under seal. Why? Because they are radical? Because, at least in his case, they don’t exist?


34 posted on 05/23/2025 7:42:41 AM PDT by MHT
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Also, little sunshine is on the fact that Michelle and Barak have no law licenses.

https://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/the-obamas-law-licenses/


35 posted on 05/23/2025 7:45:10 AM PDT by MHT
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I don’t disagree.

But I am moving on to fights that we can and should win. Like getting the country’s financial house in order.

Unless and until we can beat the “reconciliation” process and pass bills with real changes in them, the country will continue to flounder financially.

I think the democrats are sick of Obama and Clinton. They will move on. I doubt if the AOC wing will end up taking over. They know they need to move to the middle. So the BS of the Obama days will fade. I am happy to let his legacy be Joe Biden.


36 posted on 05/23/2025 7:46:16 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: MHT

They have like $60 million or $90 million or something. They don’t need to practice law anymore. To keep a bar license, you have to pay fees and take refresher courses, so they “surrendered” (that is, voluntarily gave up) their licenses when they went into politics big time.


37 posted on 05/23/2025 7:48:55 AM PDT by x
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To: quantim; Tom Tetroxide; butterdezillion

Let’s not forget Obama’s problematic 1979 Selective Service Registration, which was completed on a form released in 2008 and date-stamped with a doctored postmark: https://obamadocuments.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/hello-world/


38 posted on 05/23/2025 7:50:27 AM PDT by Hetuck ("We will Barry you" - Nikita Khrushchev)
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To: ckilmer

Now that is about the most logical and believable explanation of this situation I’ve heard. Thank you very much for the post!

https://www.gs.columbia.edu/


39 posted on 05/23/2025 7:51:08 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: quantim

Check with the hospital in Mombasa.


40 posted on 05/23/2025 7:51:19 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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