NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA ( But heck, we're all just racist birthers...yea right! )

antimullah.com ^ | 10/18/2009 | Alan Peters

[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)

[Mamzelle]

re: You would think that being popular meant having friends. It’s a little odd that he had no friends or anyone else who remembered him.)))

Same here. I mean, he's so swoony and all that.

What about girlfriends? He married Michelle in his thirties.

[browardchad]

Three questions:

1) Was he in Residence the entire time there, or was he in Correspondence or Exchange Programs from another country for some of his time there?

2) What was his coursework (not his MAJOR - and YES, it does matter)?

3) What NAME did he use and/or transfer under from Occidental College?

Ask Columbia. The records have not been made public, as you well know.

[Mamzelle]

Rush funds the Heritage Foundation which does a lot of research. But I agree, there ought to be more shoeleather investigations.

[marstegreg]

I really want to get the words “Manchurian Candidate” out of my mind. I just can’t....

[thouworm]

PATRICK GASPARD, Obama’s “Glue Man,” is Director of Political Affairs, one of the most critical and influential jobs in a White House, was Executive Vice President–the #2–at SEIU 1199 in New York City.

““I grew up in 1199…and I will always be an 1199er wherever I am.” “

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ACORN Paycheck Aside, Patrick Gaspard is a Radical
by Kyle Olson

Several days ago, Capital Research Center’s Matthew Vadum published research here indicating an ACORN alumni in the White House (other than the president): Political Director Patrick Gaspard. As I did three weeks prior at ACORNcracked.com, Matthew used a Wade Rathke blog as the source, which Rathke, the founder of ACORN, immediately changed after Vadum’s report, citing “memory tricks.” Politico led the way in poo-pooing the connection once Rathke played cover-up.

The fact is, Patrick Gaspard, Obama’s “Glue Man,” is more important than Van Jones ever hoped of being. The fact is, one of the most critical and influential jobs in a White House, the Director of Political Affairs, is occupied by a former SEIU health care lobbyist and ACORN organizer. To be exact, he was Executive Vice President–the #2–at SEIU 1199 in New York City.

After Gaspard was appointed to the White House, Carribbean Voice quoted him as saying, “I grew up in 1199…and I will always be an 1199er wherever I am.” SEIU’s luxury is that now taxpayers are paying for it.

Wade Rathke, current organizer with SEIU Local 100 (in New Orleans) and ACORN International (now “Community Organizations International”), called Gaspard a “great friend” on his ChiefOrganizer.org blog. Additionally, Rathke theorized how Gaspard was likely instrumental in working with SEIU to bring “big health care operators” to the table. [Figuring once scrutiny came to someone high-level in the White House, the evidence would be changed, we turned Rathke’s blog posting into a PDF.]

http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/05/acorn-paycheck-aside-patrick-gaspard-is-a-radical/#more-12070

[little jeremiah]

There was a fake story claiming to have evidence showing 0bama was enrolled as a foreign student at Occidental.

The story was fake.

But there is no evidence one way or another as to 0bama’s actual status at Occidental. His records are entirely sealed.

So, although that particular story claiming to have evidence is fake, the truth is not known.

[Piranha]

Yes, I had forgotten completely about Gaspard. Do you know when he affiliated with 1199?

[MHGinTN]

Pingalingaling ... more data on SEIU conections and the healthcare ‘industry’.

[thouworm]

Patrick Gaspard
Department: White House
Position: Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs ( Appointed )
202-456-6257
Age: 41
Childhood State: Overseas
Previous State: New York
Campaigned For in 2008: Obama

Gaspard got his start in politics organizing demonstrations in New York City for social justice in Haiti in the mid-1980s, and that talent eventually led him to storied Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union.

He was born in Kinshasa, Zaire, after his father, a political opponent of the Duvalier regime in Haiti, fled there. Gaspard's organizing prowess caught the eye of veteran Democratic operative Bill Lynch, who enlisted him to work for Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, who later became New York mayor.

In 1999, Dennis Rivera, president of Local 1199, recruited Gaspard, and he eventually became the union's executive vice president. The local granted him a leave to work as deputy national field director for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid. Gaspard, 41, never imagined himself working in the West Wing; citing his responsibilities at 1199, he had turned down several overtures to join the Obama campaign before becoming political director last June. Gaspard attended the School of Visual Arts and Columbia University.

National Journal

[little jeremiah]

Snopes is as useful as Faactcheck. Run by self admitted liberals.

For political stuff, it’s worse than useless. Anyone can google just like they do.

[Scythian]

Did he fall to the earth as star? Is that why nobody remembers him?

[Piranha]

Here is a story about 1199 and its Communist past. Gaspard apparently joined the union in 1999.

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-file-88-parallel-lives-obamas-man.html

[Vendome]

That’s his cover girl.

[Vendome]

Try this “Indo-Kenyan Candidate”.

Did that help?

[Vendome]

OMG! He is Star Man!

[marstegreg]

Wouldn’t it be funny if that worked? I’m almost afraid to try.

[Hot Tabasco]

How else could he have gotten into Harvard Law?

Minority quotas with fake transcripts or none at all and an admissions office willing to overlook "the minor details"......

It's also odd that following graduation "O" wasn't snatched up by some prestigious or semi-prestigious or a not prestigious at all law firm........

[thouworm]

“Gaspard sees the potential for change – but only if there is agitation. That, he says, is where he comes in.”
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Sept 19, 2006

Rising Stars: 35 under 40
The Next Generation of Political Leaders in New York

Patrick Gaspard, 39
Vice President for Politics and Legislation, 1199SEIU

Patrick Gaspard says political activism is a Haitian birthright.
Gaspard’s involvement with 1199, regarded as one of the most powerful unions in the state, dates back to 1988 and Jesse Jackson’s presidential bid.

The next year he worked closely with the union to elect David Dinkins, the first black mayor in the city’s history.

More campaigns followed: in 1999, Gaspard was working as Council member Margarita Lopez’s chief of staff when Amadou Diallo was shot and killed by police officers in the Bronx.

The union was one of the central organizers of the civil disobedience that followed, and 1199 President Dennis Rivera and then-Political Director Bill Lynch asked Gaspard to coordinate those efforts. A position in the political department followed.

Now he is concentrating on 1199’s national campaign to help the Democrats take the House and Senate. Gaspard sees the potential for change – but only if there is agitation. That, he says, is where he comes in.

What is the most important thing you have accomplished so far?
“Raising two children of color in America.”
Two years from now, what do you want to have done?
“That’s the easiest question I’ve ever been asked – I want to begin to repair the imbalance in the Supreme Court by electing a Democratic President.”
— By Courtney McCleod

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[Piranha]

Here’s another article about Gaspard, SEIU and ACORN.

[Piranha]

Sorry, I neglected the link (from American Spectator):

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/28/acorns-man-in-the-white-house