Posted on 06/09/2009 7:26:35 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
Obama transferred from Occidental College to Columbia University in 1981.
According to the New York Times, Obama "suggests in his book that his years in New York were a pivotal period: He ran three miles a day, buckled down to work and 'stopped getting high,' which he says he had started doing in high school.
Yet he declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."
Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told the newspaper in October 2007, "He doesn’t remember the names of a lot of people in his life."
Obama claimed to be a part of the Black Student Organization and anti-apartheid activities. But according to the New York Times, several well-known student leaders did not recall his involvement.
Fox News made contact with 400 of Obama's classmates. No one remembered him.
The Columbia University chapter in Obama's life remains blank, according to the New York Sun.
"The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago," the Sun reported in September 2008.
"The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public."
According to the New York Sun, a program from Columbia's 1983 commencement ceremony lists Obama as a graduate. University spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated with a major in political science but without honors. Nonetheless, he was later admitted to Harvard Law School.
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Islam is a serious business, islam is. Islam makes you ugly, islam does. Islam means you can never be happy, because islam is a death cult.
This all reminds me of a bizarre movie...a reporter digs deep and finally finds the elusive picture of Barack Obama with the dramatic music playing...
Only to find that it’s someone else in the picture.
Whats’s with that prostrate position, and that Indiana Jones hat
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Wittle barry’s tired I guess. What a POS. He will alwyays be ghetto and is a disgrace to the office. There is no respect or dignity. He is revolting.
What in the world is with these peoples’ faces? Both of them look as if someone built them from the chin up and loaded the bottom with cement or something.
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MO has always looks like she has a wad of tobacco in her lower lips. She has a major monkey mouth. I have no idea why BO’s chin looks like that, but that is very odd in that picture. hmmmm He looks really bloated.
What secret service agent is this?
Self-ping. I am certainly not going to yawn at this info. I went to GW in DC, I remember EVERYONE I had classes with in buisness school. It was a decent sized college, but our individual schools were much smaller. When you get to your major classes they are intimate. How could NO ONE remember him from his thesis class... not even his advisor or professors? I don’t buy it.
“I’ll never stop looking until I find the killers”
O.J. Simpson
They share a lot in common....great job.
“Someone on the inside at Columbia created a record of attendance there. The school was a hotbed of radicalism is the 60s and 70s (Cloward and Piven were faculty members there), and still is today.”
Columbia’s public inquiry website staff during the presidential campaign would not respond substantively and would only refer people to do an Internet search of their own, when asked from which division Obama graduated and in what year. His campaign website said, “Columbia University,” not “Columbia College.” Graduates of Columbia College, which is an undergraduate college of Columbia University, would almost certainly write, “Columbia College, New York City” or “Columbia College of Columbia University.”
His not writing Columbia College (there’s another Columbia College in Chicago) and leaving it at “Columbia University,” suggests that maybe he took some courses at Columbia University’s School of General Studies (referred to as”G.S.”), a place that was much, much easier to get admitted to and popular with night and part-time students. If one attended G.S., it’s conceivable no one would remember you. People used to pass through there like ships in the night. (Here’s a long shot: given Obama’s likely ties to William Ayers who attended Bank Street College not far from where Obama lived and near Columbia at the same time as Obama did, maybe it was the Bank Street College Obama attended and not Columbia).
If Obama attended Columbia College, as the Obama’s camp says, even for two years, and actually made it to class, he would be remembered, do doubt about it. If people have his photo in their yearbook, they’d remember the face. These are not dummies, they’re excellent students. In fact, if he was a tranfer student who showed up just occasionally to classes in this small, liberal arts college, that fact, too, would be remembered. They’d have thought, “What’s with this guy? It’s not fair that he can just waltz in here just once in awhile.” The 1980s is not that long ago. Professors and even staff from those days are still around on campus or retired and well aware of who the president is.
Another possibility is that he took not some, but most of his courses at The School of General Studies (G.S.). and only one or two classes at Columbia College and either then or in some future year, with some monkey business by someone, the College gave him credit for the whole kit and caboodle of non-Columbia College classes as part of their bending over backwards for “people of color” under their understanding of the initiative called “affirmative action “ Obama would not be the first person in the history of Columbia to distort their backgrounds and claim they have a Columbia diploma.
Every student who graduated from Columbia College in those days had to take two years of “C.C.” – Classical Civilization – an intensive two-year core curriculum consisting of in-depth reading of political, philosophical and social thought.
(Now it’s one year: http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/cc.php)
Nothing that comes out of Obama’s mouth suggests he’s a man who took C.C. in the early 1980s (If his handlers are reading this, we might start hearing Obama quoting Plato’s Republic and saying he read it at Columbia). There is not a peep about CC or about anything he learned at Columbia, nothing about the neighborhood, nothing about the fact that the diner a couple of short blocks from Columbia is the setting for Seinfeld.. His “foot in mouth” bloopers are coming so often and indicate such a lack of information in his head that one really does have to believe that the Indonesian madrassah’s curriculum from 1967-1971 (the key years of his elementary school education - maybe when Americn kids were learning something about their country) and the marijuana and whatever else he took in the years that followed made him into a space cadet. By the way, I remember reading that an elementary school teacher of his from Indonesia does remember him, even if no Columbia College contemporaries more than a decade later do not.
Once he was elected president, Columbia publications claimed him as their own with cover stories. His official grades must be very well hidden or at the bottom of the Hudson. I can’t help but think that at least some office staff, as well as teaching staff at Columbia College and University in general are demoralized by the unanswered questions and the veil of secrecy. The rest have been given Koolaid.
It’s also possible he was absent from class so much that there were ramifications on his grades, maybe a disciplinary trail for drugs, etc. What there surely was in the 1980s was a continuation of what started in the very early 1970s and that was a mindblowing, huge permissiveness by all parties on campus when the student in question was a “minority student.” By the 1970s, there were special, separate “Deans for Minority Students” at the various divisions of Columbia University. It was there job to “support’ the minority students. They gave the students complete latitude to do as they pleased. Infringements of policy were overlooked.
A look at the 1982 and 1983 Columbia College yearbooks would be very informative about who the deans and professors were from that period, even the cafeteria, library, medical services, and office staff.
Yesterday’s and today’s Columbia political science and history and Contemproary Civilization professors must have been proud when the alleged Columbia political science major, B. Hussein, stated in his formal surrender speech to Islam on June 5 in Egypt, that the U.S. Constitution was written “20 centuries ago.”
The media didn’t say a word about this (Had it been George Bush who said it, the media would have made it top story for years to come ). Maybe the Columbia Political Science Department professors were brave enough to take note of the president’s ridiculous gaffs, shallowness of knowledge, appeasement to Islamic fascists and the capitulation of the U.S.
Hey, maybe it was TOTUS who went to Columbia.… But, golly, even TOTUS would be remembered by somebody for how he sat up straight, the way he lit up a room and was never at a loss for words, the way he told the teacher just what he wanted to hear….
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Gibbs, what a complete nerd
This one has a reflection that makes it look like a halo is around his head. See, he is the Messiah after all. /s
yep, a lot of things not right
Jeez, I thought I was the only person still alive who read that book, (c. '73). I might even have a copy in the stacks.
McCain considered it his world-historical duty to lose to Obama. At least, that’s how it was explained to him the night before his “miraculous” comeback in the WV Primary.
Thanks for the Ping!
One might think this would spark even a minimum of curiousity; but noooo; the MSM is not interested in defrocking their modern messiah.
Yesterday’s and today’s Columbia political science and history and Contemproary Civilization professors must have been proud when the alleged Columbia political science major, B. Hussein, stated in his formal surrender speech to Islam on June 5 in Egypt, that the U.S. Constitution was written “20 centuries ago.”
“Yes and if you worked in the hospital on the day the future president was born, you would remember that too.”
Most especially if it were a white woman having a black child (yes, even in Hawaii in 1961 in a place like Hawaii) with a name like Barack Obama who had an African accented father.
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