RECOLLECTIONS OF OBAMAS EX ROOMMATE
... The apartment had no interior doors, just archways, and Mr. Boerner had to walk through Mr. Obamas room to reach his own. Hot water was scarce, and the two young men often showered at the Columbia gym...
A young Phil Boerner, in a photo he says was taken by Barack Obama.
A photo of Barack Obama, taken by Phil Boerner.
Barack Obama with a friend, Sohale Siddiqi, in the fall of 1981.(All photos courtesy of Phil Boerner)
WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO ONE KNEW OBAMA IN
So if you study the two articles and the obvious deliberate misidentification of who the roommates were, and then factor in the Central Park fake, it suggests what was important was to make us believe (a) he was at Columbia (b) the Dunhams visited him in Central Park while he was there.