Doc, Obama was mentored at Occidental by a gay activist commie, Professor Laurence Goldyn. Goldyn was a very good friend of Bill Ayers. It is my theory that Goldyn passed Obama onto Ayers, who was active in NYC at that time and had very close family ties to Columbia Faculty. Obama seems to have lived very near Ayers in those days.
Who made the call to Columbia saying let this doper in? Who was propelling him forward,...and why him?
Columbia School of General Studies had two entrance requirements: a pulse, and a check. It was pretty much a walk-in service school operation. For instance, I took Organic Chemistry there one summer to get it out of the way and because I was frightened of the Chem Faculty at my college! Aced it! And boy was it expensive (late 50's).
However, many used General Studies it to get a degree from Columbia, too, which was possible. The degree was strangely enough, issued by the College, even though General Studies students were definitely not part of that prestigious operation.
In re Harvard LAw: Obama was NOT THE EDITOR of the HLR. He was the President, an administrative job, which he screwed up royally, having to be covered by others. The guy can neither write nor edit anything unto this day. He is actually bit of an ignoramus.
Thanks, I appreciate the information, especially the Occidental relationship. I am sure you’re right. I just wonder why Cashill didn’t include this information in his book, ‘Deconstructing Obama’. He is usually extremely thorough.
As Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and her Harvard partners in crime are learning, academic fraud is not as easy to get away with as it used to be in the good old days before the emergence of a vigilant alternative media. Writing for Breitbart, Michael Patrick Leahy revealed on Friday a spring 1993 article that listed Warren as one of approximately 250 “women of color” in legal academia. The article was published in what was then called the Harvard Women’s Law Journal and would have been released roughly when Warren was being considered for tenure. At the time, Harvard Law was desperately seeking just such women. Just three years earlier, the Law School found itself embroiled in a nasty racial brouhaha. Black firebrand law professor Derrick Bell was demanding that Harvard appoint a woman of color to the law faculty. This protest would culminate in vigils and protests by the racially sensitive student body, in the course of which Bell supporter, Barack Obama, would compare the increasingly absurd Bell to Rosa Parks. Feeling the pressure, Harvard Law Review editors wanted to elect their first African American president. “Obama cast himself as an eager listener,” the New York Times reported in the article that would catch the eye of literary agent, Jane Dystel, “sometimes giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once.” In effect, the pressure Bell had brought to bear launched Obama’s political career, and it may have given Warren the idea to reinvent herself as Pocahontas. One could almost forgive Warren for cheating a little. At the time, the Law School faculty was flush with cheats, including Obama’s two most prominent mentors. One of them, liberal icon Laurence Tribe, hired Obama as his research assistant in 1989 and took a powerful liking to the young man. After the 2008 election, Tribe would gush, “His stunning combination of analytical brilliance and personal charisma, openness and maturity, vision and pragmatism, was unmistakable from my very first encounter.” Obama found a second prominent mentor in professor Charles Ogletree. In the run up to the 2008 election, Ogletree would enthuse, "I'm so excited about this candidacy that I just can't tell you. I'm just overfull with joy.” If anything, Ogletree and Tribe should have been both overfull with joy in the simple fact that they had hung on their Harvard jobs.