Posted on 10/06/2008 5:59:21 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
Univ. of Chicago Press Release, 2002: Obama was a Community Organizer in NY
Many researchers and reporters have highlighted Obama’s secrecy about his years at Columbia University in New York City. In our recent article on Obama’s friendship with William Ayers, I wrote:
Now the Mainstream Media is onto this story too, and has (finally) noticed that Obama is hiding records from Columbia University, where he completed his undergraduate studies after transferring from Occidental College in California. To be more precise, it’s not just Obama’s academic files that are missing, but more curiously, the files of his life. The Wall Street Journal had a story Thursday entitled Obama’s Lost Years:
What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends. Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him.
Martin questions whether this mysterious period of Obama’s life has to do with William Ayers:
Is it just a coincidence that Obama and Ayers were on the Columbia campus together? Did they meet and make their initial contact at that time?
In his special Sunday night, Obama and Friends: History of Radicalism, Sean Hannity said about Obama’s years in New York: “That’s where the roadblock begins,” questioning whether Obama’s secrecy about that period is an effort to hide his radical associations. Hannity also explained how Obama’s “community organizing” work is modeled on Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and was merely a stepping stone for Obama’s own political ambitions.
Now it’s come to my attention, thanks to an anonymous reader, that Obama was a “Community Organizer” in New York. Why has he failed to mention this on the campaign trail?
Here is a screenshot of a University of Chicago Press Release, found at http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020110/mlk.shtml. The underlined text reads:
“During the 1980s, Obama directed community-organizing projects in low-income communities in New York and Chicago.”
Keep in mind that Wayne Allen Root, who graduated from Columbia the same year Obama says he did has no recollection of the guy, nor doe any of Wayne’s classmates.
I would love to read Obama’s dissertation that he wrote in Columbia. I wonder why it is such a secret? For some reason, I thought such works were in the public domain if the schools accepted gov’t grants. At any rate, if I had written a dissertation for my degree, I would have been very proud of it and would enjoy sharing it with people.
When it was all said and done (research) there was more said than done. Where's the beef?
from the TDblog:
Questions:
What kind of “Community Organizing” projects did Barack direct in NY in the 1980s?
Who did Barack work for in NY in the 1980s when he “Community Organized?”
Why hasn’t he featured this experience, since he apparently believes that “Community Organizing” work helps qualify him for the Presidency?
WHY ALL THE SECRECY?
I wonder why Nobama decided to transfer all the way to New York. Who did he know there?
Methinks there is even more here than what meets the eye:
“3 Killed in Armored Car Holdup”, N.Y. Times, October 21, 1981.
Concerns of Brink’s Survivors Website. http//www.ogrady/brown.com
“State Jury Finds 3 Radicals Guilty in Brink’s Killings.” N.Y. Times, September 15, 1983
AMBUSH: THE BRINKS ROBBERY OF 1981
|By Mark Gado
The Links are Uncovered
The F.B.I. entered the case immediately since deposits in the Nanuet National Bank are insured by F.D.I.C. Any theft that involves such funds constitutes a federal crime. Through their intelligence files, agents were able to ascertain that Boudin, Gilbert and Clark had previous connections with the Weathermen organization. Boudin, of course, had been on the run since 1970 from the Manhattan townhouse explosion and Gilbert was being sought for assault and possession of explosives in Colorado. Clark had served a prison sentence for her role in the “Days of Rage” demonstration.
After police conducted their initial investigation, they quickly arrived at several conclusions. Somehow, over the previous ten years, the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground, a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, had teamed forces. This unlikely coalition was apparently committing robberies to obtain funds for the advancement of their respective “causes.”
-snip-
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/8.html
Anyone?
Bueller?
Did anyone check old Columbia yearbooks.?
Wow
cocaine.
WTF? Another cousin of obama??
Here are Wayne Root’s comments about Obama at Colombia:
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/09/libertarian-vp.html
Maybe he was a gay gigolo living in the Village.
“Did anyone check old Columbia yearbooks.?”
that question has been asked previously, several FReepers tried without success.
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/obamas-ties-to-ayers-back-to-high-school/
Obama’s Ties to Ayers: Back to High School? [UPDATE]
October 5, 2008 by texasdarlin
[UPDATE: At the end of this post, I should have stated the question which, in my mind, provides a probable link between Barack Obama and the Ayers family that would reach “back to high school:” Were Frank Marshall Davis and Thomas Ayers (Bill’s father) acquainted?]
P.U.M.A.S FOR MCCAIN-PALIN:
He won’t allow his transcript from his undergraduate days at Columbia University to be released.
He “lost” his thesis on Soviet nuclear policy (see “Where in the World is Obama’s Missing Thesis“ which might provide insight regarding his seeming lack of knowledge about Soviet policy during the Kennedy years).
He won’t answer questions about his days at Harvard Law School.
He “lost” his Illinois Senate records.
He will only release a simple one-page letter from his doctor on his medical condition.
He won’t release his application to the state bar, which, as National Review’s Jim Geraghty notes raises questions about whether he told the truth about parking tickets and drug use, among other issues.
He won’t disclose list of his clients from his law firm days or the nature of the work he did for them as a lawyer (his clients include the indicted political fixer Tony Rezko).
He walks away from uncomfortable questions about Rezko at a news conference.
His cultists try to shut down inquiry into his stewardship of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge by sliming a journalist investigating his days at the helm of that group, which blew through $100 million dollars with no discernible benefit for the schools and students that it was putatively designed to help (what does the constitutional law lecturer say to the chilling of free speech by his acolytes?).
He tries to muddle his long-standing ties with Pastor Wright by producing a version of his attendance record at Trinity Church that is sharply at variance with previous versions he has given (”Obama Re-invents his Trinity Church History“).
The Wall Street Journal joins the battle over Obama’s past in today’s editorial (”Obama’s Lost Years“):
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? [....]
Voters and the media are now exercising due diligence before Election Day, and they are meeting resistance from Mr. Obama in checking his past. Earlier this year, the AP tracked down Mr. Obama’s New York-era roommate, “Sadik,” in Seattle after the campaign refused to reveal his name. Sohale Siddiqi, his real name, confirmed Mr. Obama’s account that he turned serious in New York and “stopped getting high.” “We were both very lost,” Mr. Siddiqi said. “We were both alienated, although he might not put it that way. He arrived disheveled and without a place to stay.” For some reason the Obama camp wanted this to stay out of public view.
What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends. Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him.
http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/obama-covers-his-tracks/
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Yeah, I know. But, nothing to see. Move along...
Obama has said that he attended socialist conferences during his time in New York. Probably the “socialist scholars conference” which presumably consists of academics performing “direct actions” to sabatoge each others committees and whatnot. www.socialistscholars.org
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