“I only recall one instance of a student asking a question in class in all of my time there.”
Good grief...talk about an intellectually lazy bunch of skulls full of mush! No wonder we have such ignorant leaders in America today.
Perhaps an Ivy League diploma doesn’t mean much in the real world, and there should be a twenty year moratorium barring these hot-house flowers from taking government positions.
He’s spent 4 million dollars to cover up his college years, and the media doesn’t find that in the least bit interesting. What the hell is he so desperate to hide that he would fork over 4 million to keep it hidden?
Most of my college friends were on the fencing or riding teams, the Sherlock Holmes Society, or in my dorm. I didn't run for any student government offices, belong to an eating club, or otherwise concern myself with campus issues.
But I can still think of 5-10 people who probably remember me, several of whom I've kept in touch with over the years.
Whoever sold him illegal drugs might remember him.
I am a conservative so they would DEFINATLY remember me!
Sure you could, if you never attended class.
The writer makes some interesting points about the relative anonymity at Columbia, though I find it unlikely that every class which BO supposedly attended at Columbia was a large lecture hall type class.
And, by his own admission, BO was never a wallflower type introvert.
So, yeah, it is a bit of a stretch, but you could dismiss the lack of Columbia classmates who remember him.
It is not so easy when the same pattern is found at Occidental or Harvard.
Given the fact that the jug-eared moron is an unaccomplished, shiftless and lazy, drug-addled loner, my first inclination was “yes”, however, once I considered the reality that he is also an overbearing, ignorant, self-aggrandizing, affirmative action enabled, arrogant, no talent a$$ clown, it would be hard not to remember the vile creature.
Iachetta’s points are all valid, and match my personal experience. I transferred schools midway through my sophomore year (not to Columbia,) moved straight into a studio apartment, and worked full time on third shift until graduation. Outside of the others who were in Army ROTC with me (a relatively small group,) you’d be very hard-pressed to find anybody that remembers me.
“Could you spend 2 years at Columbia with no one remembering you/”
Of course you could, if Columbia FALSIFIED your records. That’s what liberal schools do for their Marxist pets. All it takes is the right money greasing the right palms.
I’d be interested to know how this lonely loner who kept to himself...turned into a community organizer with oratorical abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
So that cannot be the case. The most reasonable explanation is one of two options:
1. He applied for admission and for grant-in-aids / and or scholastic scholarships AS A FOREIGN STUDENT,...and NOT as an American. If he was an American citizen at the time,... then he committed FRAUD. A substantial amount of money would make it a felony. Had the college or university discovered the FRAUD he would have been expelled and possibly arrested or sued in civil court to recover the money.
I assume the statute of limitations on these crimes will have run out by now, but the revelation of his having committed these crimes would be devastating.
The applications, transcripts and financial papers have probably been removed or destroyed by Axelrod by this point. Unless someone has photocopies it probably won't be discoverable. The liberals who run these institutions may have even facilitated the destruction and/or took bribes to do it.
2. He was a foreign student having given up his American citizenship when adopted by Soetoro. He never re-patriated from same and has served illegally as President.
It is crystal clear (at least to me) that he never was a NBC. His 'supposed' father was a Kenyan national, not an American. If Davis was his actual father, then he was an American NBC. But he claims Obama Sr. was his natural father which we of course assume at this point (for good reason) was and remains a lie.
The only sane conclusions to his preventing his college records from being shown to the public are two:
1. He committed fraud and needs to hide the evidence.
2. The records have been completely destroyed and the revealing of this fact would beg the question why they were destroyed.
The only people I remember from college classes are the really hot women.
This article also does not diminish the importance of how the Illegal got into Columbia and how his stay there was financed. Logically, affirmative action or not, his dubious performance at Occidental and in the last two years of high school should have precluded his admission to Columbia or, at least, kept him from getting a scholarship. Nevertheless, he did get in and received some form of extensive financing. How did he do it?? My guess is he received heavy sponsorship and massive financial support from a number of murky, sinister anti-Ameridan leftists.
That financing and the the fact that his college and law school papers would show he did not write Dreams are probably the two biggest reasons he will never release his college and law school records.
Saul Alinsky Rule 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
Journalism is DEAD! There is no searching for truth and facts anymore if it comes to Rat corruption, lies or crimes. There is only regurgitating the leftist talking points.
Back in the day when I went to Columbia there was no absolute requirement that you attend classes and many professors did not take attendance although in a small class it would be noticed if you were absent.
The kicker was that if you missed too many classes, you had to have a final grade of B- or better or you failed the course. I had a lot of classes where I seldom, if ever, attended, relying on my ability to pass the final by reading the material while cramming for the final exam.
Now, some 50 years later I am not saying that I would remember each person by name, but if shown a photo of them at or near that age, if they were in the public spotlight and I knew that they had attended my college at the same time I would recognize them instantly.
I cannot, however, say the same for graduate school. I knew and remember many individuals but the classes were smaller and we had no contact with the other graduate schools within the university. But if Obama had been in my biology classes I would remember him instantly.
Just my experience,... and doesn't seem to jibe with yours.
The question here isn’t did someone (Root) remember him. The question is why hide the documents PROVING he was there, ...and the only reasonable explanation is FRAUD.
Few people from a medium sized university who were not into the Greek thing, or athletics would be remembered 30 years later by very many alumni.
Phil Boerner, who was his classmate and first roommate at Columbia, remembers him and has spoken about it. Michael Wold (current MTV president) has confirmed that Obama was a classmate. Professor Michael Baron has gone on and on about Obama's brilliance in class in a manner that will make you gag.
I think it's odd that only two classmates and one professor have come forward.
However, 'we', including journalists like Iachetta, keep repeating that NO classmates and NO professors remember Obama. That's not the case.