January 20, 2009, 4:14 pm
Recollections of Obama’s Ex-Roommate
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
Barack Obama with a friend, Sohale Siddiqi, in the fall of 1981. (All photos courtesy of Phil Boerner)
January 20, 2009, 4:14 pm
Recollections of Obama’s Ex-Roommate
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
Barack Obama with a friend, Sohale Siddiqi, in the fall of 1981. (All photos courtesy of Phil Boerner)
[Haven’t seen it mentioned here that the original source of photo is Columbia roommate Phil Boerner]
You would have to scroll through, Phil Boerner was mentioned a number of times plus links to his ‘recollections’.
Here’s the problem..
January 20, 2009, 4:14 pm
Recollections of Obama’s Ex-Roommate
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
That article with Phil Boerner as the source and owner of the photo bears a publishing date one day later than the article where the photos is cropped in the A/P article.
Associated Press
Jan. 19, 2009, 12:08AM
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6218564.html
and he and Phil Boerner are still friends and have seen each other recently. There is NO reason to suspect that Phil would release photos that he deemed damaging.
List of obama college friends:
Below is a list of Barack Obama’s friends and associates.
Frank Marshall Davis, Communist mentor to Barack Obama and sexual deviant.
Robert McCrary a former classmate at Occidental College. McCrary is now a general manager of a contract sewing company. He saw Obama as “cocky, sometimes arrogant...and not open to others.”
Paul Carpenter Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental and now a Los Angeles lawyer. Carpenter recalls Obama being a “a good body-surfer”, “an athletic guy”, and “super-bright”.
Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York’s Lehman College.
Jon K. Mitchell a friend from Occidental who now plays bass for the country-swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
Imad Husain a Pakistani and Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental. Husain is now a Boston banker.
Mohammed Hasan Chandoo a wealthy Pakistani friend of Obama when he was a freshman. He is a now a self-employed financial consultant living in Armonk, New York.
Wahid Hamid a wealthy Pakistani friend of Obama when he was a freshmam. Hamid and Obama traveled to Karachi, Pakistan after graduation from Occidental and stayed with the family of Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York City.
Vinai Thummalapally an Obama college roommate in the summer of 1980. Thummalapally is from Hyderabad, India. Obama visited Hyderabad, India and Karachi, Pakistan during a three week period with Wahid Hamid after his graduation from Occidental. He is president of a CD and DVD manufacturing company in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Sohale Siddiqi is identified as “Sadik” in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, and is described as “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan, and Obama’s roommate when he attended Columbia University. Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia and became an illegal alien having over stay his tourist visa. Obama knew Saddiqi when he visited Chandoo and Hamid at Occidental. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now lives in Seattle working for a community theater.
Phil Boerner A transfer student from Occidental College and roommate of Obama’s when they were living together in New York City.
Andrew Roth knew Obama at Occidental College and in New York City. Roth said that back then “The thought...never crossed my mind that he would be our first black president.”
Cassandra Butts a friend from law school who now works at the Center for American Progress. Of Obama she said, “People see in him what they want to see.”
Michael Froman a friend from law school and now an executive at Citigroup.
Laurence Tribe a professor at Harvard who said Obama was one of his two best students. “He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of information