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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: butterdezillion

Why would he have to live in Connecticut? That could be where he applied for the card. It’s not far from NYC.


61 posted on 05/23/2025 10:51:42 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Chewbarkah

I don’t understand the drift of your questions besides happy animus and the general difficulty of adjusting prejudices. Beyond that, that degree was way too long ago to pull up from memory: It was something that said roughly: Columbia University in the City of New York: School of General Studies. (That said, as a student at GS I took graduate level course and columbia college courses.)

If you’re sufficiently interested in the subject:

Here are the main official online resources for the Columbia University School of General Studies:

Main School Website:
https://www.gs.columbia.edu

Undergraduate Admissions:
https://www.gs.columbia.edu/content/gs-undergraduate-admissions

Continue Your Story (Prospective Students):
https://www.gs.columbia.edu/continue-your-story

Official Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/columbiags/

Official LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/columbiags

These links will provide comprehensive information about programs, admissions, student life, and contact details for the Columbia University School of General Studies.


62 posted on 05/23/2025 10:53:13 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: butterdezillion
The last two sentences in your post above seem very important;

There were elaborate contortions made to get Obama in office and since his time in office the nation has truly been transformed into something unrecognizable as the same Constitutional Republic that it was before. With hindsight all the intentions of the coup plotters is more clear than ever, and this has to be dealt with.

The Clinton years certainly did not improve our country but the likelihood the 2020 presidential election was hopelessly corrupted flows quite naturally from the Obama election.

Fortunately, the Trump WH is sufficiently motivated and has the means to deal effectively with the issue.

63 posted on 05/23/2025 11:11:16 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Plague, war, famine, and societal collapse have all been used in the Left's anti-God agenda.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

” The 042(first three numbers) of his SS number is specifically for the people born in Connecticut.”

Not that this is important but ...

I have the 042 prefix. Not born in CT, born in Michigan. But in those years, nobody got a SSN at birth, they got their SSN when they wanted to start a job or work. I was living in CT when I hit age 15 or so.


64 posted on 05/23/2025 11:38:16 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Obama is a Marxist construct.


65 posted on 05/23/2025 11:43:21 AM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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To: Vermont Lt

Sounds like my statistical analysis prof. Nobody ever got an A, most people that passed got a C and half the class flunked.

CC


66 posted on 05/23/2025 11:51:25 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Varda

He would have needed it to work at the ice cream shop in HI, before he was ever in NY.


67 posted on 05/23/2025 11:58:27 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

Ah, that is a puzzle. Any business that withholds taxes would need it.


68 posted on 05/23/2025 12:01:20 PM PDT by Varda
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To: Tom Tetroxide

All democrat hacks have many blank spaces on their resumes.


69 posted on 05/23/2025 12:07:33 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Dilbert San Diego

WHO PAID FOR HIS TIME AT OCCIDENTAL???

NOT A FREE COLLEGE, IIRC


70 posted on 05/23/2025 2:45:14 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: George from New England; woodbutcher1963

George from New England wrote:


” The 042(first three numbers) of his SS number is specifically for the people born in Connecticut.”

Not that this is important but ...

I have the 042 prefix. Not born in CT, born in Michigan. But in those years, nobody got a SSN at birth, they got their SSN when they wanted to start a job or work. I was living in CT when I hit age 15 or so.

Except that SSN for 0 had already been issued to someone else.


71 posted on 05/23/2025 4:02:49 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: Varda; butterdezillion

Varda wrote:


Ah, that is a puzzle. Any business that withholds taxes would need it.

Except the SSN had already been issued; the original holder had died before collecting social security.

If the number was based on where you were when you started working, then when was 0 ever near Connecticut and needed the number for work?


72 posted on 05/23/2025 4:05:58 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: cgbg
Between 1981 and 1983, Obama is supposed to have visited Mars twice, by way of a teleportation chamber called a “jump room.” Basiago, a fellow chrononaut, told the website Exopolitics that he saw Obama “walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain.”

CommiesFromMarsNo1

I find this more believable than he being born in Hawaii, is a U.S. citizen, legitimately earned a degree, married a woman who isn't a hermaphrodite or transgender, had natural children with her and was eligible to be President.

73 posted on 05/23/2025 4:21:57 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Dere's nuttin' wrong wid dis brain.)
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To: WildHighlander57

Not based on where you started working, only based on where you applied for the card. You didn’t have to work to get a social security number. But if he had a job in Hawaii before going to NY, without a SS # the job wasn’t with holding taxes. Doesn’t seem likely.
I hadn’t heard that it was a previously issued number. Don’t know if they reissue numbers of the deceased.
As I said NYC is near Connecticut. IF Obama really did go to Columbia then he was near Connecticut.


74 posted on 05/23/2025 4:27:13 PM PDT by Varda
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To: MikelTackNailer

“Between 1981 and 1983, Obama is supposed to have visited Mars twice, by way of a teleportation chamber called a “jump room.” Basiago, a fellow chrononaut, told the website Exopolitics that he saw Obama “walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain.”

“I find this more believable than he being born in Hawaii, is a U.S. citizen, legitimately earned a degree, married a woman who isn’t a hermaphrodite or transgender, had natural children with her and was eligible to be President.”

Word.

He’s always been a pathetic little KGB Freak.


75 posted on 05/23/2025 4:29:21 PM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: Justa

Unfortunately Obama’s mother was CIA—and if this jump-room thing has even the slightest bit of truth to it...that was CIA as well.


76 posted on 05/23/2025 4:42:55 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: ckilmer

“I don’t understand the drift of your questions besides happy animus and the general difficulty of adjusting prejudices.”

After reviewing my wording, I apologize if this came across as an interrogation or in any way criticizing you personally. My interest in these factoids is only because Obama’s experience, degree, etc. would almost certainly be the same as your own. You seem ideally positioned to shed light on an old subject.

At one time I was intrigued by which Columbia institution Obama was enrolled in, and which, if any, conferred his degree, mostly because something so simple as a President’s higher education had been rendered so opaque. This remains enigmatic, though of scant import.

I appreciate your response and information, and will trouble you no further.


77 posted on 05/23/2025 6:26:07 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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