Professor From Columbia Comes Forward Saying Obama Never Attended the University

The Free Patriot ^ | 8 June, 2013 | Wayne Allen Root

[ScaniaBoy]

My life has crossed paths with President Obama on multiple occasions. According to Obama, we were Columbia University classmates, both Pre Law and Political Science majors in the Class of ’83. I also ran against Obama in 2008 on the Libertarian Party Presidential ticket. What are the odds?

But something about “the Obama at Columbia story” has always bothered me. Earlier in the week right here at The Blaze I wrote about having just returned from New York, where I attended my 30th Columbia University reunion. I celebrated with my esteemed classmates. Everyone except Barack Obama. As usual- he wasn’t there. Not a trace. Not a video greeting. Not a letter. I could not find any classmates who knew him.

I called Obama “the Ghost of Columbia University.” I pointed out (as I’ve said in the media for many years now) that Obama may have been registered at Columbia, may have graduated from Columbia, but he was rarely (if ever) seen for the two years in-between. It’s a strange, mysterious and frightening story.

Is he the real-life “Manchurian Candidate?” What explains Obama having just enough skeletal proof that he was there (one photo, one roommate, one professor, one friend)…but never seen in a class, never on anyone’s radar screen, almost invisible. A total 2-year blackout. It’s like a story straight out of a novel about the CIA or KGB. He graduated Columbia, but it’s almost as if he never went there.

To make matters more mysterious, Obama’s college records are sealed. He’s had plenty of opportunities to authorize the release, to clear the air. He has never chosen to do so. But why? What has he got to hide? Funny enough Obama has never had a problem ripping open the sealed records of his political opponents. Every step of his career Obama has beaten his opponents by having sealed documents just happen to be publicly exposed by anonymous sources. But not Obama. His records are always unavailable (and never leaked). Obama always seems to have powerful forces on his side.

Did he attend Columbia as a foreign student? That was the educated guess I made in my appearance on “Hannity” on Fox News a year ago. The only photo of Obama from his Columbia days was in his off-campus apartment with a roommate described by USA Today as a Pakistani national, pot smoker, and cocaine abuser. If you’re a foreign student, you live in housing off-campus with other foreign students.

That would also explain how he transferred to Columbia. Transferring into an Ivy League school is all but impossible. I did a little digging and found out only 3 transfer students in all of America were accepted into Columbia in the past academic year. Three students out of 315 million Americans. Yet those who knew Obama at Occidental called him a pot smoker and partier who rarely attended class. You’re telling me that a poor student, with that record, at an average college, was accepted for transfer into prestigious Columbia University? Only if he was an exotic Indonesian foreign student transferring into a college that desperately wanted to claim an ethnically and globally diverse student body.

Still that might explain how Obama got into Columbia. But where was he for those two years? My gut instincts say something is wrong with “the Obama at Columbia story.” Very wrong. Rancid.

But until now, I was the only one publicly voicing my suspicions. That just changed in a big way. Meet Professor Henry Graff, perhaps the most legendary and honored professor ever at Columbia University. He was THE American History and Diplomatic History professor at Columbia for 46 years. And he is more emphatic than yours truly that there are no Obama footprints at Columbia.

I was put on Professor Graff’s trail by another Columbia classmate, skeptical about Obama’s story. He told me that Professor Graff had been the speaker for the Class of ’53 last weekend at Columbia. My friend was watching Graff answer questions from the crowd when he was asked about Obama at Columbia. Graff said, “I have my doubts he ever went here.”

I did some digging and located Graff’s home phone number. I called him yesterday. Now retired, he was delighted to hear from me. He agreed to go on the record about Obama. Unlike Obama, Professor Graff clearly remembered me. He was thrilled to hear from his former student. I was in several of Graff’s classes and he remembered me like it was yesterday. He sounded great- like he hasn’t lost any of his trademark sharpness in 30 years since we last met.

I was honored to learn that this legendary historian has been following my political career for many years. But he had no such cheery things to say about the President. Graff said, “I taught at Columbia for 46 years. I taught every significant American politician that ever studied at Columbia. I know them all. I’m proud of them all. Between American History and Diplomatic History, one way or another, they all had to come through my classes. Not Obama. I never had a student with that name in any of my classes. I never met him, never saw him, never heard of him.”

Even more importantly, Professor Graff knew the other history and political science professors. “None of the other Columbia professors knew him either” said Graff.

Graff concluded our interview by saying, “I’m very upset by the whole story. I am angry when I hear Obama called ‘the first President of the United States from Columbia University.’ I don’t consider him a Columbia student. I have no idea what he did on the Columbia campus. No one knows him.”

There is something wrong with Obama’s story- I know that. Many of my classmates at last weekend’s 30th reunion knew that. Now the most beloved Professor ever at Columbia joins us in publicly questioning the story. Obama is either the ghost of Columbia, or the perfect Manchurian candidate. But something smells rotten at Columbia.

[little jeremiah]

CLicked the link on the above Freedom Post article about The Bridge, the author David Remnick (now it’s all coming back to my memory) was an editor at the NYT so anything in the book would absolutely need to be independently verified.

[justiceseeker93]

For what it´s worth:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbia.asp

Do you expect anything from snopes.com other than a weak attempt to spin the Obama narrative so as to “fill in the blanks” of the years of purported Columbia attendance. Wasn’t it snopes.com that first posted an alleged “Certification of Live Birth” to purportedly document Obama’s birth in Honolulu?

Here is a 2011 piece by Jack Cashill on WND relating to the issue of the Columbia years:

http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/283881/

[OldNewYork]

“I’m of the same era as hussein. We suddenly had a bunch of Iranians show up at our college. The profs were ordered to pass them no matter if they showed up or not. That did a job on the bell curve for the rest of us. I’m sure the registrar’s office can show their enrollment and transcript but by and large, they were NOT on campus. Some might show up for class here and there but the reality of it was just a paper scam. I’ve always thought this might be the same scam as the usurper.”

This sounds like the most likely answer for the discrepancies. Elsewhere I’ve heard it asked if he is or isn’t on the Columbia graduation program, but then a scan of that with his name on it was uploaded. So something like what you described seems like the best explanation, quite plausible when you consider he was raised in a Mohammedan country and allowed into Pakistan at a time when supposedly only Mohammedans were let in.

[Yardstick]

Well, those are some strong points in the Snopes piece. I wonder if Root has ever addressed them.

[central_va]

Can’t someone please hack into Columbia’s records dept.?

If I had the money of a Glenn Beck or Limbaugh I would have my own staff detective with a wad of cash to buy info from people in low places. Alas I am but a poor slob....

[frog in a pot]

Oooops, just read your #196.

Please bear with me until I can shake what very well be a non-issue.

My attempt is to distinguish between the name O used in that era and the name current speakers use when referring to him several decades later. It has to do, of course, with the use of foreign student status.

I am on my way out, but will pursue the point in the next few days. The issue being, “What is there in the record that indicates O discarded the name Soetero and formally began to use the name Obama?”

[jeffc]

Snopes response is weak. They just provide names and links to people who claim to have attended Columbia with Hussein. Did Snopes check them out as a real hoax-checker should? It doesn't look like it, especially the bulleted item on the Columbia 2008 press release on Zero. How would publishing something in '08 be proof he went there? Someone at Columbia claims him as an alumnus, why then doesn't Columbia prove it?

All very strange to me.

[Fred Nerks]

Kristen Caldwell Frontline Interview

Excerpt:

So yeah, I can picture him as this slightly — “chubby” is too strong, but rounded, short little guy, Barry Obama. And he told us that his father was an Indonesian king and that he was a prince, and after he finished school he was going to go back, and he would be a ruler in Indonesia. And I absolutely believed him.

I understand that he told his fifth-grade class that he was Kenyan royalty, but I never heard that story until years later. My sister and I remember very clearly that he was an Indonesian prince and that he would be going back there. So there was some reference to where he had come from, and the understanding was his family was there.

I didn’t know who he lived with at the time. I since know that it was his grandparents. I knew where he lived, because a lot of times if it rained, my dad would give him a ride home from the tennis courts, because we would hang out after school. In the summers we’d hang out at the tennis courts; after school we would hang out at the tennis courts. That’s what we did. And that’s what Barry did pretty much from fifth through eighth grade. And I think after he leaned up and grew and got into basketball, he shifted away from tennis.

The Indonesian story and stuff, what was your take on that? What do you think he was doing? Why did he need to do that?

I can only imagine now, a 10-year-old leaving his mother and stepfather and at that point I think baby stepsister. So he lived in Hawaii from when he was born until he was 6, lived in Indonesia from 6 to 10. Arriving in Hawaii — again, having not been there — I would think he would have felt very, very fish-out-of-water, very uncomfortable, and like anybody, he’d have to have a little bit of bravado to mask the insecurities. So I think that was the prince story.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/choice-2012/the-frontline-interview-kristen-caldwell/

[stanne]

You did not read the original post that was pulled for the sake of the integrity of the site.

Stay out of it

[Political Junkie Too]

Except if any of the journalists are Columbia graduates who took his classes.

Or maybe not. It would be fun to see a fight between student and professor over credibility.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Furthermore, if it escalates, the professor will call on the other world leaders that he taught to come to his defense.

That will make it a proxy war against Obama from foreign leaders.

-PJ

[Fantasywriter]

Thanks for the link to the Cashill article. He is a superb researcher. No wonder Obama needs to spend 80 billion a yr on PRISM. He’s trying to collect dirt on people like Cashill, to shut them up.

[Jude in WV]

Check your dates. There’s a picture of him in school in Hawaii in December 1969 with a kid named Scott in third grade.
He would have been a little over 8 years old in that photo.

[Fred Nerks]

Barack "Barry" Obama in 6th grade at Punahou.

source

Other than the 'enrollment' of Barry Soetoro in an Indonesian school in 1968 that uses the name Soetoro - there's no evidenc what-so-ever he was adopted or that his name was ever Soetoro. As the name Soebarkah was removed from SAD's passport in August 1968, and his name was shown as Barack Hussein Obama 11 at that time...why would we assume he was ever known as Soetoro?

He attended Punahou, according to the images above, as Barry Obama. Not as Soetoro. Although Lolo Soetoro and Stanley Ann Dunham-Soetoro filed joint tax returns IN HAWAII for 1973, only one child (Maya)was claimed as a dependant.

[Fred Nerks]

You can write to the person who was interviewed and tell her to check her dates.

In 1969 he wouldn’t have been at Punahou, he would have been at Iolani and she may not have known of him.

To the best of my knowledge his enrollment at Punahou commenced in Grade Five.

[rktman]

Snopes? Really? You can always trust them. LOL!

[editor-surveyor]

Shame for posting anything from snopes.

[publius911]

Every step of his career Obama has beaten his opponents by having sealed documents just happen to be publicly exposed by anonymous sources. But not Obama. His records are always unavailable (and never leaked). Obama always seems to have powerful forces on his side.

Permanently unavailable and never leakable, because they don't exist. The "ultimate 'seal.'"

The guaranteed abuse of the absurd "privacy" fetish (promoted by the enemies of the Republic) is among our enemies' most powerful weapons.

[Jude in WV]

http://www.theobamafile.com/_family/ThirdGrade.htm

[left that other site]

What do you expect from snopes?