It is interesting that his roommates at Occidental and Columbia were Pakistanis. This feeds into the assertion that Obama may have registered as a foreign student.
Having grown up and lived and attended college in NYC I can tell you this: it’s very easy to get lost int he numbers and blend into the crowd. I saw a lot of guys like Obama in college back in those days. They are known for the circle they run in and that is all leftist and radical circles. Obama has pretty much leaked that he ran in those circles.
These type of students did not have a lot of friends in their classes. They tended to stick to themselves by race, class and most importantly ideology.
This last area is the most defining for Obama. He’s been said to have been rejected at Harvard for insisting on taking only marxist professors. Not sure if that rumor is true but the reason why he wouldn’t be remembered in Columbia by other students is because of the reasons stated.
I’m convinced that is the reason no one remembers him. Now if you spoke to the Daily Worker and groups like that, I bet you would hear from people that knew him and saw him all the time.
That doesn’t conclude he is a marxist now. He probably thinks of himself as some sort of centrist socialist.
But to us, he’s an out and out marxist.
Also, the comments by his roommate who I recall went out of his way to avoid talking much if at all about Obama are very telling. He’s framing his “lecturing” about the poor. That’s all the typical meme of the marxists at that time when Obama was in college.
The guy doesn’t say the real context but that’s what it is if you read between the lines and knew the radical elements at that time. And there was plenty of it in the black radical groups then that were all typically marxists and hard core I should add.