Posted on 10/19/2009 5:20:48 AM PDT by kellynla
Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me.
I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding." Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him.
At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me.
No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange?
It's very strange." Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root#column-one
NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major (in the same class as President Barack Obama WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN)
Actually, it was in the late 1970s, and I became most aware of it in 1977 (not for any particular reason, except that maybe I was spending more time on the steps than I used to). I went across to try to meet some of the people there and met one guy who came to Columbia to be with his girlfriend, who dumped him shortly after he came as a freshman. He had lost his motivation and at that time was a senior who had no idea what he was going to do. I got the impression he didn’t go to many of his classes and didn’t do much of anything except hang out. In general, I didn’t feel welcome on that side of College Walk.
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I had never heard that the College would issue degrees to GS students.
This was an established process. I have no idea how long it lasted, or when it began.
Are you sure that this is correct? I am a Columbia College ‘78 graduate.
Yes, and I forgive you. I fall somewhere between you and Aaron Burr.
True enough. It’s definitely odd.
Suddenly those (unauthenticated) naked photos of SAD come to mind.
Thanks for all the info. Very interesting about all the little factions and subcultures there. (And violence!)
Seriously. Since we know nothing of Obama’s true past and where he came from, and since he literally came out of nowhere, can we really rule this guy out as THE actual anti-Christ, rather than just an anti-Christ?
You’re not saying he could be like one of those executives that pads his resume with phony BS, Educational Background, are you?
Well, shouldn’t he receive an honorary degree for HIS INTENTIONS and HOPE?
Yes.
And if he did go to the School of General Studies, are the admissions standards such that 0bama would be ashamed of admitting the truth?
Look, the truth is the guy has a degree from Columbia. That's what he admits. The rest is for him to know and for us to find out. General Studies? Any body with a check can sign up for a course. Every big university has one, it seems. It's not all that rigorous and never was. But it can be tough, administratively speaking, to put together a degree program.
Correspondence night school.
“I believe he was there (I graduated in ‘82). But it’s possible to attend the school and be a complete no-show on campus, if you have the right connections. I wouldn’t be surprised if his handlers, including Bill Ayers, cooked up a special program for him where he attended off-campus sessions for credit.”
Off-campus and maybe overseas?
Which may explain all the confusion over WHEN (and how many times) he visited Kenya.
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BTW, who was SAD’s wealthy GF?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2359747/posts?page=350#350
(From “Dreams” ... FWIW)
“They stayed with Sadik and me for a few nights, then moved to a condominium on Park Avenue that a friend of my mother’s had offered them while she was away. That summer I had found a job clearing a construction site on the Upper West Side, so my mother and sister spent most of their days exploring the city on their own.”
Snopes is as trustworthy as wikipedia. I would take any of their claims with a grain of salt.
He attended as an International student and received admission and loans, that as a foreign student, would “entitle” him to favorable admissions and loans to finance getting high with Sudiq.
His name was Barry Soetero and that is the name he used, while calling himself a foreign national.
This also necessitated his being dormed with foreign nationals, of a similar background. So he was dormed with Pakistani’s.
Make sense?
Jartran
“Obama’s Presidential Library will be on a dedicated shelf in the back room at Hub’s Beeline Wheel Alignment and Garage, in Burlington, NC. (Hub has already cleaned out the space. In exchange for $500,000 in Federal Stimulus Money, he moved the Marvel Mystery Oil and a box of Pine Tree Fresheners.)
I hope ol Hub get’s the money. If he does, it will be the only part of the stimulus going to a legitimate small businessman ;-)
Nothing has been debunked regarding Barry O.
How could you debunk or prove a fact that is sealed or lost, which is everything you would want to know about a prospective employee.
No college records are available for verification of attendance, completion or GPA.
No reliable record exist of a Birth Certificate.
Congressman records? Strangely of all Congressman, his are the only one’s missing.
Senate records? Sealed.
The list goes and there is another poster that will see your post and he will give you an extensive list of “supposed facts” that cannot be verified.
“Every big university has one, it seems. It’s not all that rigorous and never was. But it can be tough, administratively speaking, to put together a degree program. “
Harvard has a similar setup. However, almost nobody gets a degree that way. Of course, Obama IS a nobody, so there you are.
sory=story= Sorry. LOL
There wasn’t a lot of violence at Columbia. Bruce Bailey was murdered and dismembered in 1989 and his connection with Columbia, as far as I know, was that he was a community activist who tried to organize tenants in buildings owned by Columbia to rage against the evil university. There were several estranged student radicals who became involved with the Columbia Tenants Union rather than demonstrate against American national policies.
I think it was more significant that SEIU Local 1199 was active and militant in New York and at Columbia in particular at the time that Obama was in New York. It would be interesting to find out whether Obama and Ayers had anything to do with the SEIU at that time (since ACORN and the SEIU are joined at the hip), what the SEIU’s role, if any, was at Consolidated Edison, the company run by Ayers’s father, and whether the SEIU had anything to do with Obama’s decision to go to Chicago after law school.
Fine by me.
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