I have been wondering about this myself.
Certainly someone in the conservative press can find an alumni directory and find the political science majors who graduated with Obama in 1983. I am amazed that no one from Columbia has come forward-certainly someone must want to jump up and down for joy and say they were in classes with Obama. Where are they? Do any of his professor remember him?
Exactly. Why aren’t journalists or bloggers going through the Columbia yearbook, interviewing those who went to Columbia with Obama. His roommates, his instructors, his landlord. They’ve had nearly two years to do this and nothing.
I read that someone did interview lots of people in his class and no one remembered him. It even seemed unusual to the Columbia grads.
I read somewhere that Obama used to attend Young Socialists meetings while at Columbia.
Through a lot of research I found the name of a William Araiza (on a TX Columbia Alumni list) who in one writing mentioned he attended a poli-sci seminar with Obama and in another writing claimed it was a class. Haven’t figured out which William Araiza it is from Googling though.
My brother attended Columbia from 1981 to 1985 and he was and is a very social guy with a large circle of alumni friends and he and no one he knows remembers Obama. No one had a class with him, saw him working on campus in a library or dining hall, or recalls him in any way. Very, very strange.