Posted on 10/30/2008 11:10:59 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
I’ve seen this stuff about Obama’s “community organizing” in Harlem before here on FR. I’m not sure it represents “the missing Columbia years” (’81-’83?) because there were at least five years between his graduation from Columbia and his entry into Harvard Law School.
This needed to get out long ago. It is clear that Obama is a creation of the left. They found a young guy with good looks and (as usual), no family or connections. They groom and shape him and then turn him loose. Obama owes EVERYTHING he is to these people. So... guess who gets what they want when Obama is king?
A man's personal life is his own business. Why do you care if he happened to be vacuuming roosters?
The excerpt says he was a community organizer for NYPIRG in New York for one year (actually, it was only three months). Yes, he spent four years in NYC: the first two as a student at Columbia; he then worked for a financial newsletter firm, and lastly as a community organizer. In his book, he also says he was unemployed for a period, and picked up odd jobs, such as passing out campaign literature. Columbia has verified his graduation. Former fellow employees at Business International have blogged about his time there and how he "embellishes his resume," and his boss at NYPIRG remembers him.
The above article is incorrect in the number of years he spent as a community organizer, by the way. He started working for the DCP in Chicago in the summer of 1985, and he left that job for Harvard in the summer of 1988, which adds up to three years. Add the three months working for NYPIRG in NY, and it amounts to less than four years total. It sounds like he embellished his resume yet again.
What's "lost" about his NYC years are friends, classmates and a transcript. The only people the media has presented are his Pakistani roommate (interviewed exactly once, and now allergic to the media), a few fellow students and an instructor (who is now an O campaign worker in FL) in a senior seminar. No one else remembers him.
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