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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Do we have this information?
Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told the newspaper in October 2007, “He doesn’t remember the names of a lot of people in his life.”
hmmmmmmmm wonder why?
weren’t any?
they were radicals, thus can’t mention them?
or he was too high to remember?
pick any one of the above.
he’s still not qualified to be Commander in Chief.
Seriously, folks. How can this be? Was he actually a student there?
He was in a foreign country, being “groomed”.
Fox News made contact with 400 of Obama's classmates. No one remembered him.
Yawnnnnnnnnn........
Do you realize how utterly implausible that is? If you shared a class with someone who later became President, you’d darn well remember it.
sounds like “manufactured history”
cia?
I’m guessing all his buddies went back to the Middle East after finishing their studies...
Barry talks in one of his books about his roommate at Occidental and then at Columbia. Refers to him as “Sadik”. By other accounts the guys name is Sohale Siddiqi. A Pakistani national who was a dope dealer at Occidental and at Columbia.
Bammy’s false bravado seems like that of the habitual pot-head (like Algore). Obama admits to heavy drug use throughout high school and college. Delusions of grandeur apparently control the druggie brain and Zero is no exception.
ha
from occidental, some of them (muslims) stayed here landing in Washington state (i believe) and i can’t remember if the other is in NY. and both haven’t really commented.
wonder why?
Great response...Nail head, meet hammer!
“Was he actually a student there?”
Good question. I’ve always had the feeling that obama is a fabricated candidate. I remember David Axelrod saying the Jimmy Smits character on West Wing was modeled after obama, but I think it was the other way around. I don’t see how someone can go through high school, college, and law school and be an activist, no less, and leave absolutely no trail.
I do recall reading that there were people were students with obama, but they didn’t want to make themselves public because they didn’t want the media attention. Sounded kind of stupid to me
What?
janet nappy said here (in phx, while running for gov) that she “experimented with marijuana a couple times and didn’t inhale” (aka, clinton).
No, we do not. THe only plausible explanation is that Obama was given a racisl preference or admitted to Harvard through political connections he does not want anyone to know about, or both. This was in the early 1980s, the heyday of racial preferences, when there were two piles of applications. I recall feloow students scrubbing their family history so that they claim some minority status — the lucky ones found it. Obama;s admission to Harvard has always been very suspicious, and no credible explanation was ever given. It is more palatable to conceal the information and dismiss suspicions as the ranting of wingnuts than release it and show how he got in.
Students who transferred colleges halfway through and gaduated with less than honors do not get admitted into Harvard Law School unless something or someone was tipping the scales. THis guy is President and he still has not been vetted — we really do not know hte first thing about him.. Amazing.
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