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Obama at Columbia-- the unexceptional student no one remembers
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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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; bho44; birthcertificate; certifigate; choomgang; columbiau; democrat; democrats; impeachobama; manchuriantotus; obama; thekenyan
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To: Plummz

No name that I’ve heard. He’s been discussed with Mario Appuzo, Leo Donofrio and the gentleman putting together citizens grand juries and many talk radio show interviews.

Andrea Shea King
Mark MCGrew
Evil Conservative Radio

Those are three off the top of my head where I’ve heard of the death of this agent mentioned.


241 posted on 06/10/2009 7:24:26 AM PDT by Brytani (DC Freeper Convention and National Tea Party - FreepMail Me for rooms and convention info!)
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To: Polarik
Geez, we've got a ton of Photoshopped photos of ZERO, now, don't we?

So the question arises as we look at yet another 'alibi fauxteaux', what was he doing, with whom, and where when he was supposed to be there?

242 posted on 06/10/2009 7:44:27 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Polarik

These bogus photos of Obama need to be collected and annotated in a single place.

Is there any way to make a “class project” of this effort.

Anyone — any thoughts?


243 posted on 06/10/2009 8:00:10 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: MestaMachine

Both of them look as if someone built them from the chin up and loaded the bottom with cement or something.

For all we know it could be Osama Bin Laden!


244 posted on 06/10/2009 8:04:12 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (1 John 2:22...the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist...)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Well, that’s 2 out of 400.

I don’t think anyone is saying Obama didn’t attend Columbia, just that it’s odd that “no one” remembers him, and there’s no picture of him in the yearbook.

Columbia is the only school Obama attended that didn’t honor his coup d’état. Why not?

You must admit that this is curious.


245 posted on 06/10/2009 8:05:50 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Obama tells us that he went to the Marxist-Socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives until they worried he’d become “one of those freaks you see on the streets around here.”

I neglected to mention in my previous post that Michael Baron has given $1,250 to Obama, so he’s an Obot.


246 posted on 06/10/2009 8:10:54 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: ETL; BP2
Some very informative links! Thanks for posting them. The last one is of particular interest to me since I have contended for months that Axelrod$co employ a layering of lies to deceive the public.

The following comes close to saying as much, but stops short of specific accusation, allowing the reader to draw the conclusion:
Yes, Ayers is blunter than Obama. As he so delicately told the Times, America makes him “want to puke.” The smoother Obama is content to say our society needs fundamental “change.” But what they’re talking about is not materially different.
Such sentiments should make Obama unelectable. So, when it comes to his own radical moorings, Obama is engaged in classic liar behavior. He changes his story as the facts change — and the burden is always on you to dig up the facts, not on him to come clean. Yesterday, asked to comment on the Ayers relationship, David Axelrod, Obama’s top political adviser, hilariously chirped, “There’s no evidence that they’re close.” Translation: Get back to us when you can prove more damaging information — until then, we don’t need to further refine our perjury.
And then Axelrod gave us still more lies: “There’s no evidence that Obama in any way subscribed to any of Ayers’ views.”

The way Axelrod dealt with the relationship between Ayers and Obowma is quite revealing ... and Barry was an integral part of the layering of lies, not some innocent bystander whose political handler was 'out of control'.

And most in the media cooperated fully in the deceits. The classic example was Mara Liasson on Hume's daily program repeating right before the November election that 'maybe Ayers and Obama met because their kids attended the same school.'

I will not believe Mara is that stupid that two deacdes difference in ages would be unnoticed by her! She was lying for her leftist messiah.

If one takes any issue, from Rev Wright to Bill Ayers, to the life in Indonesia, the obvious methodology of the Obama campaign was to layer on the lies, altering the responses depending upon what someone had uncovered to challenge the privious lies. This lying affirmative action figure democrat fraud-in-chief will be the death of the Constitutional Republic ... and the DNC and fifth column enemedia are his eager allies.

247 posted on 06/10/2009 8:16:24 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: LucyT; hoosiermama

I doubt that anyone at Furman University could remember me from my 4 years there. I lived off campus and worked; what little social life I had did not revolve around the University or my fellow students.

I’m not saying there isn’t a bunch of stuff fishy about Obama, but his classmates not remembering him isn’t part of it.


248 posted on 06/10/2009 8:16:40 AM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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To: MHGinTN; penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; ...

“October 14th, 2008, 2:22 pm

Actually they can not even find someone in his exact class “political science” class of 83 who even remembers sitting next to him in any class at all! And no one either at the school or Obama himself can locate any thesis for him at all!

There are people who left school 35years ago who the school still has their thesis available, but barack (it must be with his birthcertificate) The man does not even qualify for security clearance from our government, yet we want to hand him acess to all the top secrets our government has...................

The fact is the man behind the curtain of Obama is Zbigniew Brzezinski

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski)

founder of the Trilateral Commision a man who has been pushing America into globalization since the Carter presidency..........this council is PURE POWER of the world bank has had 7 presidents in its history 6 of them have been from this comission, Michelle Obama has been linked to a branch of it AND.......

Brzenski was a Prof. of political science in the years OBAMA WAS AT COLUMBIA, yet both state they don’t recall meeting? REALLY HOW ODD WOULD THAT BE mr. political science major?

THEY are hiding the Columbia years because Ayers also was in NY during those years and was a friend of Brzenski’s
Obama is the empty suit for the NWO

THE DEMOCRATIC party is the Communist party that decided that the name was keeping them from being elected and changed itself to the democratic socielist party, WE HAVE BEEN SLEEPING AMERICA

WAKE UP
WE NEED TO GET INVOLVED

There is so much more to this story”

http://forums.hannity.com/archive/index.php/t-984591.html


249 posted on 06/10/2009 8:37:28 AM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: STARWISE
I wonder, how many Americans will actually think back to the times they heard the following parsing from Axelrod, or a hired minion, or willing sycophant for the affirmative action figure? Even members of my own family, in their desire to believe in any democrat to replace Bush used the 'there is no evidence' mantra ... "David Axelrod, Obama’s top political adviser, hilariously chirped, “There’s no evidence that they’re close.” ... “There’s no evidence that Obama in any way subscribed to any of Ayers’ views.”

Well, the evidence is growing, but the willfully blind get more blind with every revelation, because they do not want to believe what is being revealed about this lying Kenyan Klown because that exposes their gullibility.

When someone needs so many lies, layered so deftly, that person is a fraud being foisted upon the somnolent foolish Americans disarmed with bread and circuses.

250 posted on 06/10/2009 8:52:10 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Little Ray

Yes. I think the only people who would remember me from my undergraduate years at Harvard would probably be a few professors (now dead), my three roommates (two of them now dead), and a few officers of the Harvard Catholic Club, a couple of whom I stayed in touch with for some time afterward.

But what that says, perhaps, is that I’ll bet there were a few people there at Columbia who shared Obama’s main interests outside of the classroom. For him it was not the Catholic club, but Communist activism.

In other words, I’m sure Ayres remembers him, and a few others in that circle. Maybe Brzezinski.

But they aren’t talking.


251 posted on 06/10/2009 9:15:56 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: cycle of discernment
So noone remembers Obama? He himself says he sought out the radicals and the Marxist professors. So he hung out with the likes of Ayers who are all going to say "didn't know him" then or now. So, A Manchurian Candidate in the White House? Who is his "control"? Ayers? I hope something comes of the continued Citizenship, "natural born citizen" issue. Obama's lawyers are fighting to keep his birth certificate from being seen by the American people. We know this because their responses to lawsuits to show the birth certificate are public record and they are refusing to show it. They are not saying, "no problem, here it is" but "Our client does not want his birth certificate disclosed because it would cause serious embarrassment."? Well, excuuuse us! To me it's pretty obvious Obama is hiding something. It just boils down to What is he hiding and Why? Everyone instinctively knows that nobody really knows who this President is; nobody can point to any physical evidence that is without question to verify who this man is. The real issue, then, becomes whether one is comfortable with the situation where America has elected its first unknown and unvetted President.
252 posted on 06/10/2009 9:16:06 AM PDT by Art in Idaho
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To: STARWISE
“WAKE UP! WE NEED TO GET INVOLVED!”

You said it! And thanks for the ping!

All Freepers EVERYWHERE need to get involved and do whatever they can to help us take our country back! Going to an event, showing up at your local Rep to Congress office, spreading the word about events you hear about. And very important, join local patriot groups in your area!

Hope all FReepers will go to every Tea Party in their area and even those a few hours drive away. You will be glad you did! I am about to attend my 5th Tea Party event on June 28th in Sarasota, FL. And on July 2nd we Florida Freepers across the state are going to show up at our Rep's office to voice against Obama’s Health Care disaster he wants to pass!

Freepers, Make sure you follow the progress of the Tea Party Express from CA to DC! Remember that our own JimRob will be in the caravan so get out to greet him at all the stops along the way! AND, I hope to see LOADS of US Freepers at our National Tea Party Freeper Convention/Banquet in DC from 9/11-9/13! :)Jean Follow the Tea Party Express Caravan with JimRob: http://www.teapartyexpress.org/ Watch for new updates on our National Freeper Convention: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2258633/posts?page=338#338

253 posted on 06/10/2009 9:28:05 AM PDT by seekthetruth
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To: cycle of discernment
Suggests that he may have been enrolled but never attended classes and the diploma was issued at the request of someone. This happens. Some people get college degrees without ever setting foot on campus or doing any of the work. IF the powerful want you to have a degree.... you get a degree. I'll bet he was seldom on campus and the degree is unearned.
254 posted on 06/10/2009 9:55:47 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: cycle of discernment

Thanks. I’ve forwarded to a lot of non-freepers. They’re interested.


255 posted on 06/10/2009 9:58:19 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: cookcounty
Nixon is the only exception, and whether you liked him or not, he was quite strange, and a little scary.

True. But.. there are thousands of people who remembered attending school with Richard Nixon. He was a bit odd back then too but folks remembered him. Obama never attended classes Columbia, he was given a degree to posture him for a slam dunk admission into Harvard, the seminary that has grown WAY too big for its britches... Its all affirmative action crapola and we are now paying the price by having a POTUS who is so seriously unqualified it makes one's head spin.

We need to find out who is behind this...

256 posted on 06/10/2009 10:07:47 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

And, so this mystery man suddenly shows up as POTUS! It is obvious from watching this guy that he has no leadership skills or executive skills whatsoever. Nothing makes sense here... If he couldn’t lead at Columbia how can he lead the free world? Answer: He can’t...


257 posted on 06/10/2009 10:15:02 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: STARWISE

There is so much more to this story
____________
You better believe there is more.... lots more. Anyone that thinks that clown in the WH isn’t following orders instead of leading is blind. He doesn’t care about Democrats or Republicans. He cares about power and wealth for he and his pals. MO and BO are growing quite accustomed to this lifestyle and she has no intention of giving it up............ever. They have no plans to ever leave that WH.


258 posted on 06/10/2009 10:21:27 AM PDT by mojitojoe (The American Revolution: 70% of the people were loyal to the King, The other 30% founded a nation.)
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To: STARWISE

“The man does not even qualify for security clearance from our government, yet we want to hand him acess to all the top secrets our government has...................”

Good point. It’s pretty obvious he wouldn’t be able to go through the usual Top Secret security clearance process.
I hope our politicians create a law/laws that a Presidential Candidate has to: a. Have to show the Long Form Birth Certificate and b. Have to go through, whatever the Highest Security Clearance is, have to go through the usual FBI clearance process, interviews, past associates, etc, that many of us had to go through in the Armed Forces. If nothing else, each State Legislature can pass laws demanding such before a Presidential candidate is placed on said state’s ballot. This should never happen again in Our America, the greatest Nation on earth.


259 posted on 06/10/2009 10:21:40 AM PDT by Art in Idaho
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To: Polarik

Maybe I’m a little slow but why would this one be photoshopped? It seems someone is trying to construct a “past” for him by using photoshop but this is a current picture.

I believe you when you say it’s photoshopped. I just can’t figure out why. But then I still can’t wrap my brain around the fact that he was elected.


260 posted on 06/10/2009 10:41:28 AM PDT by azishot
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