Posted on 09/23/2008 10:05:49 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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.
The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.
In the interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who was a “mentor” to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s.
Sutton described al-Mansour as advisor to “one of the world’s richest men,” Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Prince Alwaleed catapulted to fame in the United States after the September 11 attacks, when New York mayor Rudy Guiliani refused his $10 million check to help rebuild Manhattan, because the Saudi prince hinted publicly that America’s pro-Israel policies were to blame for the attacks.
Sutton knew Al-Mansour well, since the two men had been business partners and served on several corporate boards together.
As Sutton remembered, Al-Mansour was raising money for Obama’s education and seeking recommendations for him to attend Harvard Law School.
“I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,” Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter. “The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas.”
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Posted earlier, but this MUST become known, and this MUST be examined in full detail.
Politico ran cover for Obama after Amanda Carpenter at Twonhall, Pam at Atlas Shrugs, and WND started reporting on this.
Politico’s Ben Smith ran a piece fed to him by the Obama campaign and a phony spokesman for Mr. Sutton that said Sutton “mispoke” about Obama’s ties to radical Khalid al-Mansour.
As you can read, Timmerman talked to the REAL Sutton family and they don’t even know this spokesman.
THEY ARE HIDING SOMETHING
Posted earlier, but this MUST become known, and this MUST be examined in full detail.
naaaaaa the MSM is more interested in Sarah’s tanning bed and Todd’s parking tickets.
I know. But shouldn’t National Review, Weekly Standard, or the WSJ at least show some FRICKIN curiosity about Obama’s past?
oh absolutely. but Obama’s present really scares me.
His present is run of the mill Dukakis/Kerry/Mondale/Carter leftism. Yes, awful. But that is not the real Obama. The real Obama is even far more radical than these hacks and is a product of subversives.
You hit the Red on the head. Obama is a stealth candidate who has powerful Marxist backers who are waiting in the wings for their chance at capturing the White House without firing a shot.
well we all saw the wright videos. hard to top that and yet so many Americans are still for this guy
Manchurian islamic hiding in plain sight as a Manchurian communist.
.....and the converse.....
You hit the Red on the head. Obama is a stealth candidate who has powerful Marxist backers who are waiting in the wings for their chance at capturing the White House without firing a shot.
The evidence is overwhelming that this is correct. These Marxist enemies of the United States have infiltrated the opinion-making institutions of society and through that managed to get Obama to where he is today. They have only step to go, unless they are exposed and stopped.
Interesting.
Obama’s Columbia days are murky as well (none of his classmates remember him). He won’t release his Columbia transcripts, as far as I’ve heard. His transcripts, if revealed, may indicate that he wouldn’t have gotten accepted to Harvard Law School without help.
the real question is..
why do we need to be asking all these questions?
It is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE to have a Presidential candidate of whom we don't know about his past associations.
He won't release any of his transcripts, theses, medical records, birth certificate...
I mean, WTF!
This guy disqualifies himself just by his own secrecy.
He is most certainly concealing his past - that's a no-no.
You won't tell us who you are - we ain't gonna give you our vote - it's that simple.
Get him outa here
There is a very good reason why he won't release his Columbia transcripts, and I don't think it is necessarily to do with his grades, we already know he graduated without honors, so in regard to getting into Harvard, we already know his Columbia grades don't cut it.
I believe his obfuscation about his time at Columbia is because he is concealing the fact that it was during his time there that he MET BILL AYERS.
The media is all concentrating on the "Chicago Annenberg Challenge" relationship in the mid-nineties and wondering how Ayers would have picked Obama to chair his foundation when Ayer supposedly hardly knew him - well here's your answer...
While Obama was studying at Columbia in 1982-83, Ayers was obtaining his Masters in Early Childhood Education (1984) at Bank Street College.
Bank Street College is 371 yards from the Columbia campus - less than a quarter of a mile.
Obama and Ayers had mutual friends - Edward Said, the radical Palestinian sympathizer and Professor at Columbia, being one.
Given their like minded politics, it is inconceivable that they did not, at the very least, meet during those two years.
Obama may well be concealing his transcript because it gives some clue to an association with Ayers.
Note also, that on graduating from Columbia, Obama did not go home to Hawaii, he moved to.....Chicago - Bill Ayers stomping ground!
While this is, as yet, unverified, the theory that Obama and Ayers got together in New York answers an awful lot of other questions about Obama and his subsequent rise in Chicago politics as well as his connections for getting into Harvard Law School.
If this proves to be true and can be revealed before the election then Obama can be exposed for the liar, fraud, and Manchurian candidate that we suspect him to be.
When you hear the rumble of Iranian warheads striking your city...the Media will blame Bush.
if he was such a “self-made” guy, one would think that he’d
be happy to release the records of his great story
the fact that he doesn’t sure implies to me that he is hiding something
Bump for later
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