Posted on 10/19/2009 5:20:48 AM PDT by kellynla
Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me.
I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding." Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him.
At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me.
No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange?
It's very strange." Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root#column-one
NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major (in the same class as President Barack Obama WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN)
You nailed it! Imagine, if the POTUS graduated from a given school, people will be very proud to talk about their association with him, partying with him, and some will even claim they knew him!
I have always said that his school records are the story! For that thin-skinned, egomaniac, Marxist usurper, it's crucial to hide the records of dropping out, graduating with a negative GPA = -3.8! He can't afford to let himself be the REAL joke of the world including the liberal late shows and SNL when they have to!
These records will also reveal a foreign student status, different SSNs, who paid his tuition, etc.
The fight over his NBC is valid; however, other records are extremely important in kicking this mockery of a ghost out of OUR HOUSE!
This is why I classify myself as a "ghoster!"
So true! I knew Joan Prather (an actress, see Big Bad Mama) in school.
I must have mentioned that to 500 or 1000 people! ! Now on line even!
BTW : Ex TV star Joan Prather was arrested for felony hit-and-run at the weekend (13/14Sep08) after allegedly busting through police barricades and dragging a cop along Malibu, California's Pacific Coast Highway. According to the Malibu Surfside News the one-time Eight is Enough actress passed through a section of the highway closed off for the Malibu triathlon. When a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy raised his hand to signal for her to stop, Prather reportedly drove on, hooking his watch on her car and dragging him for six metres (20 feet). The newspaper claims the officer was treated for a sprained arm, and Prather was arrested and released on $50,000 (GBP27,000) bail. Prather's representative has not returned requests for a comment
Right on Vendome, my point exactly. I often think about how the shyest wall flower has his/her circle of friends and years later looking through yearbooks and other memoribilia, someone will always remember them. “Oh yeah, I remember him/her, quiet and shy but a brain—here’s her/his picture RIGHT HERE” or some such remark. Always. No man is an island...
Ya know, that really bothers me about these richly compensated ‘conservatives’. Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, they can afford to hire private investigators to look into these accusations, or at least the more credible ones, like establishing by what nme/identity this sob ran his scams at Occid and Columbia, but they just mouth off rather than spending some of their considerable compensation to dig into these things. I have a rather specific list of things that with a few tens of thousands I would like to look into. But of course, such a list is of no interest to Ann Coulter so long as she can spittle insults and ridicule at ‘birthers’ while touting her latest screed.
Im thinking....still thinking........
‘Yesterday, as I was walking to the polls, I saw a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, I sure do wish he’d go away.’
SEIU -— some background
People’s Politics
October 07, 2009
For full disclosure, I am not a fan of unions today but certainly believe they were very valuable to the development of the middle class and breaking the hold of the robber barons of the early 20th century in the US. It can be argued they were essential for the development of our life style today; as well, it can be argued they were partially responsible for the current collapse of the auto industry. I believe the unions have outlived their usefulness and apparently most of the country does too; union membership has been on a fairly steady decline for a number of years and in 2008, which was the latest year government statistics are available, stood at 12.4 percent of employed wage and salary workers. Interestingly, 2008 was the first year with an uptick in a while as it rose .3 percent from 12.1 percent a year earlier. This was a rise of 428,000 workers to a total of 16.1 million according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; this is a substantial number of Americans, although not as many as it has been in the past.
While most of the unions’ workforce has been dropping in recent years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been doing quite well. In fact, “union membership rate for public sector workers (36.8 percent) was substantially higher than the rate for private industry workers (7.6 percent). Within the public sector, local government workers had the highest union membership rate, 42.2 percent.” As a digression, the “largest numbers of union members lived in California (2.7 million” in 2008; I wonder if that had anything to do with California’s current financial troubles.
While the SEIU can trace its origin back to 1921, it only became a potent force when it left the AFL-CIO in 2005 and embarked on its aggressive growth plan. The SEIU now consists of about 1.8 million workers, more than 10 percent of the total union membership in the country; a great deal of its growth has come from poaching members from the AFL-CIO. It is interesting that so many of the SEIU’s members are government employees; it makes for a natural confluence of power of union management and government policy making which strikes me as a bit dangerous. In fact, “SEIU president Andy Stern is one of many radical union organizers who came out of the Midwest Academy, which was formed by onetime Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) members Paul and Heather Booth to train community organizers and infiltrate the labor movement.” Is this the person we want influencing government policy?
The SEIU historically has had a close relationship with ACORN, the now discredited community organizing group. Just some of the relationships:
* “ACORN created and controls SEIU 100 (Gulf Region) and SEIU 880 (a recently expanded SEIU mega-local that covers Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, and Kansas).”
* “ACORN founder S. Wade Rathke referred to mega-union SEIU 880 as ‘one of the pillars of the ACORN Family.’”
* “SEIU President Andy Stern hand picked ACORN’s Rathke to direct SEIU’s nationwide organizing projects.”
* “From 2005 through 2008, SEIU spent $9 million on ACORN training programs and contracting out ACORN organizing services. SEIU even hired ACORN founder Wade Rathke to command SEIU national organizing programs.”
* ACORN’s Wade Rathke is listed as President, SEIU’s Hospitality, Hotels and Restaurants organization.
I believe the relationship is unhealthy and see no reason, with the same training and many of the same people, the SEIU would be any less corrupt than ACORN; it should be looked at by the Department of Justice. Attorney General Holder should be far more interested in possible abuses here than by the interrogators of the CIA. It is hard for me to believe the 1.8 million employees are all Democrats; it seems logical at least some would be Independents or Republicans. Is the SEIU rebating their members for their political activities? I doubt it.
So far, I haven’t seen any interest by the Obama Administration to look into SEIU. It may be because the SEIU pledged $85 million (I can’t find if they met their pledge) to the coffers of Democrat candidates in the last election; perhaps I’m being overly cynical in that view though as Holder may be too busy with the CIA investigations to worry about something as “insignificant” as $85 million.
http://noise.typepad.com/peoples_politics/2009/10/seiu.html
These so-called “conservatives” are only interested in enriching themselves. I don't pay much attention to any of them. I've have quit posting AC’s articles and buying ANY of their books.
Local 1199: The National Health Care Workers’ Union
1199: The National Health Care Workers’ Union (originally known as the Drug, Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union-District 1199) was a labor union originally founded by Leon J. Davis for pharmacists in New York City in 1932. The union organized all workers in drug stores on an industrial basis, including pharmacists, clerks, and so-called “soda jerks”. The union led pioneering pickets and strikes against racial segregation and racially discriminatory hiring in Harlem and elsewhere in New York City during the 1930s.
Since 1199 was a “left-led” union, its leadership was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1948 for Communist “infiltration”. 1199 was a tiny local at the time, however, and during the expulsions of large left-led unions from the CIO in the 1940s, 1199 as a local eventually found shelter under the auspices of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union.
In the late 1950s, the drugstore-based union launched large-scale organizing drives at voluntary hospitals in New York, mobilizing a heavily African-American and Puerto Rican-American workforce in the first flush of the postwar Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously described 1199 as “my favorite union” [1].
Coretta Scott King became the honorary chair of 1199’s organizing campaigns as it sought to expand outside of New York City beginning the late 1960s.
The union’s first campaign outside of New York City was the formation of District 1199B in Columbia, South Carolina in 1969. The union led a strike there that never led to a contract, but had success in creating new 1199 districts in Upstate New York, Philadelphia (and later other parts of Pennsylvania), Connecticut, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and elsewhere.
Serious faction fights broke out within the flagship New York local and among other 1199 locals after the retirement of the union’s original leadership. 1199 eventually left the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union to form a short-lived National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees during the 1980s, but its constituent locals soon thereafter sought mergers with other unions.
Most 1199 locals joined the Service Employees International Union, with 1199C in Philadelphia being the largest 1199 local to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The large flagship New York local remained independent until joining SEIU in 1998. Dennis Rivera led the union for many years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_1199
Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Obama, aka Barack Hussein Obama is the perfect democrat criminal enterprise candidate. He's got a racial chip to play at the drop of a hat, he is dedicated to the marxist/fascist scheme for change, and he has proven his loyalty by working to protect the murder of just born alive infants. He is the face of the criminal enterprise now running the democrap aprty AND this once functioning Constitutional Republic.
Which is exactly why he won’t release his school records from there. He has something to hide
” While arrest reports could be expunged, the bookings remain intact “
Barry’s roommate in NYC was Sohale Siddiqi aka Sadik.
A Pakistani Muslim friend from his Occidental era .*
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/recollections-of-obamas-ex-roommate/?hp
Sohale admits to selling drugs out of their apartment.
Barry wrote in Dreams that he “ stopped getting high “ at some point while living with his drug dealing roommate.
And then he suddenly became a clean living ,
long distance runner who fasted on Sundays -I’m not making this up.
A weak crack addict living with a coke dealer suddenly
throws his crack pipe in the trash-riiight.
Anyway, some of the bookings might include Sohale or perhaps one of Barry’s aliases.
Has Barry ever quoted one of his profs or spoken about a specific class
or lecture that meant something to him ?
Barry wrote in Dreams that he would go to “ socialism lectures “ at The New School.
He also wrote about his father being offered a full ride to The New School.
Could he actually have been a graduate of The New School , instead of Columbia ?
Maybe everybody is looking in the wrong place.
*When Barry held his Ramadan dinner at the White House in September ,
he invited his core group of Occidental/ NYC friends
and former roommates-all Muslim foreign exchange students from Pakistan.
Wahid Hamid, Imad Hussain and Hasan Chandoo.
Except Sohale-who apparently remained in the drug world and fell on hard times.
Was he worried that Sadik might spill some secrets ?
That’s ridiculous because no MSM reporter is the least bit interested in Barry’s bizarre past of admitted cocaine use, stopping coke - cold turkey ,
odd foreign travel ( including moving to Indonesia with Michelle for several months circa 1992 )
and hidden college history.
Local 1199 History - from SEIU website:
District 1199 began in New York City as a union of pharmacists, porters, “soda jerks,” clerks and cosmeticians. Our founders believed all workers in one industry should organize together to gain power. Professionals and service workers, as well as people of different religions, races, and political views — all of whom work for the same company — should stand together and use their strength to help themselves and all working people.
Leon DavisBy 1959, District 1199 organized more than 90 percent of all the pharmacy workers within New York City and had begun to organize the city’s huge voluntary hospitals.
By the 1960s, Leon Davis and District 1199 fanned out through the country to organize and create a national union of health care workers in all sections of the health care industry — from hospitals and nursing homes to mental health clinics.
District 1199’s growth and organizing during the 1960s was more than a union fight. Leon Davis, 1199 organizing director Elliott Godoff, and 1199 members used their new and vibrant Union to demand social and economic changes for all workers.
At the height of the Civil Rights struggle, Davis and District 1199 were at the forefront among other leaders, workers, and families who were fighting the injustices of American discrimination. 1199ers raised funds to sustain the historic Montgomery bus boycott, bailed out civil rights workers, and helped organize the March on Washington. District 1199 joined Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as the first union to call for an end to the war in Vietnam. Dr. King called District 1199 his favorite union, saying it was “the authentic conscience of the labor movement.”
By the mid-1970s, District 1199’s organizing call reached toward hospitals and nursing homes in West Virginia. The organizing momentum spread to Highlands Regional Medical Center in Prestonsburg, KY, to Oak Pavilion Nursing Home in Cincinnati, OH, as well as to Appalachian hospitals. Healthcare and social service workers saw a crisis in their communities and knew that to get better wages, benefits, and care for their patients, they needed to unite with workers who did the same jobs, creating District 1199 WV/KY/OH.
In the 1980s, when many unions in the industrial Midwest struggled to survive, District 1199 organized and grew.
In 1982, District 1199 organized state hospital workers in West Virginia, and in 1986, the union organized the health care and social service professionals working for the State of Ohio, doubling the size of the union to almost 6,000 members.
The next big step came in 1989, when District 1199 members voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the 1.4 million members of the Service Employees International Union, the largest health care union in the country and the largest and fastest growing union in the AFL-CIO.
http://www.seiu1199.org/about_1199/1199history/Default.aspx
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BUT, Local 1199, the large flagship New York local remained independent until joining SEIU in 1998.
I am speeechless.
The rest of the story gets better but, he was soon found to have padded his resume, not to long after that and was fired.
I wonder how they found out? lol
He can’t get a job in our industry and I am sure it put a little strain on his finances.
In fact, I understand he now lives in an apartment.
F-ing loser.
yes he did. On the shore of ocean where he and Barry walked hand in hand, in the mornings at low tide.
Yes.
They were roommates in LA, while Barry attended Occidental, yet Sadik was not registered at that school.
No. See above link:
As a freshman [at Occidental], he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis. There were others, Thummalapally recalls: a French student and both black and white Americans, including Jon K. Mitchell, who later played bass for country-swing band Asleep at the Wheel (Mitchell remembers that Obama wore puka shell necklaces all the time, though they were not in style, and that “we let it slide because he spent a lot of time growing up in Hawaii.”)...
When Obama arrived in New York, he already knew Siddiqi - a friend of Chandoo's and Hamid's from Karachi who had visited Los Angeles. Looking back, Siddiqi acknowledges that he and Obama were an odd couple. Siddiqi would mock Obama's idealism - he just wanted to make a lot of money and buy things, while Obama wanted to help the poor.
Barry also made a very expensive trip to Pakistan with Sadik during a time that Americans were not allowed to travel there on American passports.
No. See above link:
In 1981, Obama transferred from Occidental to Columbia. In between, he traveled to Pakistan.
And also:
US DOS Travel Advisory: Travel to Pakistan, August 17, 1981
you don’t read Star magazine or People? /s/s/s/s/s
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