Posted on 09/23/2008 8:07:17 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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Obama’s Harvard Years: Questions Swirl
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:11 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
How exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education?
The way the Obama campaign has answered the question was simply hard work and student loans.
But new questions have been raised about Obama’s student loans and Obama’s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising money for Obama’s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991.
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_harvard_/2008/09/23/133199.html
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Totally agree with you .
WHY ISN’T MC CAIN SHOUTING ALL THIS FROM THE ROOF TOPS ?
We better get tough fast or Obama will be president
.Why why why do we never fight back ?
Not true. Even today, HLS costs less than $60,000/year if you live on a budget, and it was far cheaper back then. Further, there is significant grant aid for low-income students, and the law firm he worked at the summer after his second year probably paid him over $1,000/week.
Yeah, if Obama was just an ordinary crook, he’d be in deep do-do. But, since his past is like the tenacles of organized crime, too deep and too wide, he skates because no one can follow all of his nefarious connections and criminal activity. Everything this guy’s ever been connected to in the slightest way has a scandal attached to it.
Black militants, including one with a Muslim name and ties to a Saudi, got Obama into Harvard and helped him pay for it is easy to explain and leaves the average voter wondering why Obama hasn't mentioned it and what the catch is.
Same way Democrats pay for everything else??? Five Finger discount.
Why would THE MOST MERCIFUL MESSIAH have to pay for anything?? He is THE ONE they have been waiting for. I’m sure Harvard wouldn’t deny OUR GLORIUS LEADER a good education based on something like having to pay tuition...
Your asumption of NOT TRUE may be rather hasty and there is no evidence that the Obama’s lived a life of sacrifice in Boston’s notoriosly expensive environmemt. But some do choose to believe the Obama Sob stories at their face values which is rather naive to say the least. Believe what you wish?
There may be no evidence that he lived a spartan lifestyle, but it’s certainly possible. Further, $60,000/year at HLS is hardly a life of sacrifice—it allows a decent apartment near campus and a fair amount of spending money for eating out, entertainment, etc. If that’s not enough, there are innumerable events at the best restaurants in town sponsored by firms hoping to recruit law students, and a range of activities and clubs generously funded by the school. Naturally, all this was far cheaper 20 years ago as well.
Timmerman does his homework and has lots of connections....so this article should be taken seriously for sure!
From this article - frickin AMAZING stuff:
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told Newsmax that Sutton’s account was “bogus” and a “fabrication that has been retracted” by a spokesman for the Sutton family.
He referred Newsmax to a pro-Obama blog published on Politico.com by reporter Ben Smith.
In a September 3 blog entry, Smith wrote that “a spokesman for Sutton’s family, Kevin Wardally” said that Sutton had been mistaken when he made those comments about Obama and Khalid Al-Mansour.
Smith suggested the retraction “put the [Obama/Al-Mansour] story to rest for good.”
Wardally told Smith that the “information Mr. Percy Sutton imported [sic] on March 25 in a NY1 News interview regarding his connection to Barack Obama is inaccurate. As best as our family and the Chairman’s closest friends can tell, Mr. Sutton, now 86 years of age, misspoke in describing certain details and events in that television interview.”
Asked which parts of Percy Sutton’s statements were a “fabrication,” LaBolt said “all of it. Al Mansour doesn’t know Obama. And Sutton’s spokesman retracted the story. The letter [to Harvard, which Percy Sutton says he wrote on behalf of Obama], the ‘payments for loans’ — all of it, not true,” he added.
Newsmax contacted the Sutton family and they categorically denied Wardally’s claims to Smith and the Politico.com. So there was no retraction of Sutton’s original interview, during which he revealed that Khalid Al-Mansour was “raising money” for Obama and had asked Sutton to write a letter of recommendation for Obama to help him get accepted at Harvard Law School.
Sutton’s personal assistant told Newsmax that neither Mr. Sutton or his family had ever heard of Kevin Wardally.
”Who is this person?” asked Sutton’s assistant, Karen Malone.
When told that he portrayed himself as a “spokesman” for the family, Malone told Newsmax, “Well, he’s not.”
According to a 2006 New York magazine profile, Wardally is part of a “New New Guard” in Harlem politics that has been challenging the “lions” of the old guard, Charles Rangel and Percy Sutton. That makes him an unlikely candidate to speak on behalf of Sutton.
There is something VERY VERY ROTTEN going on here!!!!!
No need to be concerned - we have a newbie here who has it all figured out. Good point about the loans. See post #27
Law firms typically pay summers pro rata what first-year associates make, and back then I think firms like Sidley started at about $60,000/year. These days they start at $160,000, and pay summers $3,000/week. Quite the steal for the lwa student, but the goal is obviously to rope you in to returning full-time so they can bill you out for far more than they pay you as a young associate.
Eh, I’ve been around a lot longer, but switched monikers because I didn’t like my old one (which I got years ago). But thanks anyway.
How many summers did he work as an intern?
A community organizer is like a waiter. He just didn’t report his tips.
One at a big law firm (Sidley Austin) and one at a smaller firm. I have no idea if the smaller one paid him anything his first summer, though.
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The Islamist Candidate
Thanks, pissant. My head is spinning from all the news tonight, plus a freeper apparently has been threatened by ... unknown persons ... because of the freepers outspoken political views. Their mailbox was broken into, and a dead snake is placed on their porch every night ... reminds me of Kathleen Wiley’s murdered cat. It’s good they are letting everyone know; that’s the only reason Monica is still alive.
Pinging to #31.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089032/posts?page=31#31
Article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089032/posts
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