Posted on 09/13/2008 3:58:27 PM PDT by pjsbro
Obama spent the six years between 1979 and 1985 in Los Angeles at Occidental College and then in New York at Columbia University and in the workplace. His memoir, "Dreams From My Father," talks about this time but not in great detail; Siddiqi, for example, is identified only as "Sadik" — "a short, well-built Pakistani" who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party.
Obama's campaign wouldn't identify "Sadik," but The Associated Press located him in Seattle, where he raises money for a community theater.
Together, the recollections of Siddiqi and other friends and acquaintances from Obama's college years paint a portrait of the candidate as a young man.
They remember a good student with a sharp mind and unshakable integrity, a young man who already had a passion for the underprivileged. Some described the young Obama's personality as confident to the point of arrogance, a criticism that would emerge decades later, during the campaign.
Not everyone who knew Obama in those years is eager to talk.
(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com ...
I’ve never associated cocaine use with integrity.
Well, yeah. They probably like their kneecaps just the way they are.
Wow, a glowing recommendation from a pothead cocaine junkie.
Yeah, that looks good on a resume. /sarc
BULL SH*T!
Tony Resko integrity. Chicago Machine integrity. Community organizer where scammer friends get rich and the poor get shafted integrity. Having your wife accept a $200,000 pay raise for a phony job after you become senator integrity...
This is a manufactured BS story to counter the claims that we really don’t know what Zero did during those years.
Original source: Associated Press
More MSM scrubbed-clean propaganda. I don’t need to read this.
Can you imagine Politico publishing anything approaching this level of hagiography for a conservative?
"But we're the very model of modern objectivity."
Right
unshakable integrity = wouldn’t bogart the joint
No wonder he doesn’t understand ordinary Americans - he has hardly spent any time with people like most of us.
And why, if he’s so concerned about the poor, isn’t he more generous with his new found riches? Oh, he wants the American taxpayer to shoulder the burden - because it’s “neighborly” to steal money from those you think have too much.
Yeah, you can read between the lines and figure out that the near-absence of detail about large portions of Obama’s life is getting more and more obvious.
Sounds like the AP and the Dems are trying to create an acceptable past for Obama. Pretty late in the game. Interesting that Obama’s “friends” are primarily foreigners. No wonder he considers himself a citizen of the world.
bingo, excellent point
if he cared so much, he would have thought about the impact that drugs have in the community: addiction, crime, poverty...
six years in college? time for ebert to point that out in a national media format. (sarcasm)
looks like obama and sarah took the same amount of time getting their BS degrees.
Some things haven't changed.
Headline for MSM “Obama associated with Convicted Drug Dealer”
Oh no wait, that isn’t gonna happen is it? “Obama Attempted to Help at risk Youth Avoid Drug Trade”
Go volunteer. Please everyone...you can really help. I spoke with some older ladies who hate Obama who didn’t know how much help they could get from the Rep party to assist them in voting. You feel like a million bucks after you do a 2 hour shift.
My thought as well.
Michael Medved has Siddici on a LOT!! He is ANTI-AMERICAN MUSLIM!
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