During my time at Columbia—I felt like a poser and a not very good one at that. Obama was/is definitely a poser but a very good one. good posers can make a living doing their thing.
Fidel Castro’s impression that Obama is very superficial is on the money imho.
The part of obama’s narrative that I doubt least is that he attended columbia in some capacity.(but very likely not the undergraduate college—but rather the teacher college or GS or some urban studies undergraduate program.)
why?
I think that who Obama is politically is primarily shaped by columbia
when I looked in on jeremiah wright’s church last spring — i was shocked to see that Obama’s church of 20 years had all the leftist talking points that I recalled —were the common coin of columbia of the 70’s & 80’s. (I hung out in the neighborhood for 16+ years.)
Personally, I think the guy is phony as a 3-dollar-bill and he's been "running a game" on the system since his first day of registration for college...