#248 and #254.
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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)
http://agjnow.org/
It went online this morning.
That is very odd. Usually even the most shy quiet kid in the class someone remembers them?
TY; will read; incredible research here; too long to post, but Local 1199 below:
HIGHLIGHT: Steve Kramer, executive vice president of Service Employees Union [[Local 1199]], spoke of the Communist Party’s role in building and maintaining his union.
Recounting 1199’s “’’disastrous”’’ 1984 strike and internal strife in which “’’the union almost tore itself up’’,” Kramer said that but for the party’s efforts, “’’1199 would have been a small union’’” Today, with nearly 300,000 members, it is the world’s largest union local.
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In 1999, Lopez loaned Gaspard out to help Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to organize a march in protest of the police shooting death of Amadou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant.
Gaspard was allegedly a key organizer of the civil disorder that followed Diallo’s death.
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.
Dennis Rivera, president of Local 1199, recruited Gaspard to the union- where after some he rose to the rank of union Executive Vice President.
It is important to realize that Local 1199 is one of New York’s most powerful and militant labor unions.
Founded in 1932, the union was left led from the start and was investigated in 1948 by the House Un-American Activities Committee for Communist “infiltration”.
At at a March 2007 meeting to celebrate the [[Communist Party USA]] donation of its papers to New York’s Tamiment Library, Steve Kramer, executive vice president of Service Employees Union [[Local 1199]], spoke of the Communist Party’s role in building and maintaining his union.
Recounting 1199’s “’’disastrous”’’ 1984 strike and internal strife in which “’’the union almost tore itself up’’,” Kramer said that but for the party’s efforts, “’’1199 would have been a small union’’” Today, with nearly 300,000 members, it is the world’s largest union local.
When the Communist Party split in 1991, several Local 1199 officials joined the dissenting faction and took many comrades into the breakaway Committees of Correspondence.
Among those Local 1199 officials signing the Communist Party dissenter’s “An initiative to Unite and Renew the Party” document, which brought tensions to crisis point, were Paul Friedman (Local 1199 Vice President), Rafael Pizarro (Local 1199 organiser), Geoffrey Jaques (associate editor 1199 News) and Marshall Garcia (Local 1199 executive Vice President).
Friedman, Pizarro, Jacques and Garcia all went on to support Committees of Correspondence.
Pizarro also went on to help found the radical New Party, which Obama joined in Chicago in 1995.
Many other 1199ers also supported Committees of Correspondence, including Lenore Colbert (Local 1199 Vice President), Pat Harris (Local 1199 Vice President), David Kranz and Socorro Laguerra (Local 1199 rank and file), Pam Mills (Local 1199 Seattle), Bruce Richard (SEIU San Francisco, now a Local 1199 Vice President), Angela Doyle (Local 1199 Vice President) and Nelson Valdez (Local 1199 Vice President}.
Doyle, Valdez and Richard still hold senior positions with the union.
In addition, leading Committees of Correspondence member Mael Apollon is involved with the Local 1199 Child Care Fund.
Also of note is the late Merrilee Milstein , who was from 1972 to 1994, Vice President of the New England Local 1199. Milstein was a hard left activist in her own right and was married to Communist Party member Brian Steinberg.
Milstein left 1199, to become assistant to then Connecticut Secretary of State Miles Rapoport-now president of the ACORN supporting, DSA linked, New York think tank Demos.
Barack Obama was one of Demos’ first Trustees when it was established in 1999.
Gerry Hudson, now a vice president of the SEIU, also got his start at Local 1199 in New York. Hudson is a member of Democratic Socialists of America and also serves on the board of the Apollo Alliance-founded by Obama’s recently departed “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones.
In 2003, Patrick Gaspard was granted leave from Local 1199 to work as the deputy national field director for the presidential campaign of Howard Dean. After Dean was eliminated from the race, Gaspard became national field director for George Soros’ political action group America Coming Together.
Later Gaspard helped Yvette Clarke win the Congressional seat vacated by Democratic Socialists of America member and Communist Party supporter Major Owens.
Clarke is now a member of the leftist Congressional Progressive Caucus-which has long and deep ties to DSA.
In 1995 Patrick Gaspard was an organizer for the New Jersey chapter of the New Party, a creation of ACORN, DSA and Committees of Correspondence.
By 2001 Gaspard was a leading activist in the New Party offshoot, the New York Working Families Party-a DSA/ACORN/Committees of Correspondence/Communist Party collaboration.
Gaspard and Bertha Lewis of ACORN, wrote a letter to the July 2, 2001 issue of The Nation;
In the course of their letter, Gaspard and Lewis describe their extensive joint involvement in Working Families Party activities. The letter is signed: “Bertha Lewis, ACORN, WFP; Patrick Gaspard, SEIU State Council, WFP.”
According to DSA’s Democratic Left Summer 2001
Veterans of the left will remember that the 1968 Peace and Freedom Party and the 1980 Citizens Party arose at moments of greater left-wing strength and did not significantly alter the national electoral landscape. Nor has, unfortunately, the New Party, which many DSAers work with in states where “fusion” of third party and major party votes is possible (such as the DSA co-sponsored Working Families Party in N.Y. State).
The DSA youth wing’s 2004 “Life After Bush” Conference included;
A series of well-attended workshops detailed the nuts-and-bolts of electoral activism, lead by veteran campaigners from trade unions and the NY DSA-affiliated fusion Working Families Party.
Speakers at Life after Bush included;
Cornel West, DSA, New Party founder, 2008 member of Barack Obama’s Black Advisory Council. A Progressives for Obama endorser.
Frances Fox Piven, DSA, New Party founder, co-creator of the famous Cloward-Piven Strategy for wrecking the US economy. A Progressives for Obama endorser.
Steve Max DSA Director of Organizing and Training, Midwest Academy Chicago.
Leslie Cagan Committees of Correspondence, National Coordindator, United for
Peace and Justice
Ian Williams DSA, a correspondent for In These Times and The Nation
Bertha Lewis, Co-Chair, Working Families Party, Executive Director, New York ACORN.
DSA member Jay Mazur is also prominent in the Working Families Party and is also an endorser of the Progressives for Obama website.
Patrick Gaspard is still listed on the advisory board of the the WFP aligned Working Families Center, alongside;
Working Families Party co-chair Bob Master
Working Families Party Secretary and New York ACORN head, Jon Kest.
SEIU’s Hector Figueroa-a regular speaker at DSA’s Socialist Scholars Conferences - including the 2004 event where Van Jones also spoke.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger -on the board of the Oakland based Applied research Center which is closely aligned with Van Jones’ Ella Baker Human Rights Center.
Former Committees of Correspondence National Coordinating Committee member Nathan Newman, who recently wrote in the Daily Kos I knew Van (Jones) pretty well back in the early 90s when we were both involved in community organizing efforts, including involvement in a variety of left-leaning groups.
Barack Obama, as a young man, admired third world revolutionaries like Frantz Fanon. He went into community organizing and the DSA/Committees of Correspondence aligned Chicago left, before moving on to the White House.
Van Jones, as a young man, admired third world revolutionaries like Amilcar Cabral. He went from radical community organizing into the San Francisco Committees of Correspondence and the New York DSA aligned left (like Obama, Jones was a Trustee of the DSA aligned Demos), before moving on to the White House.
Patrick Gaspard, as a young man, admired third world revolutionaries like Aime Cesaire. He went into radical organizing and mixed with the DSA/Committees of Correspondence aligned New York left, before moving on to the White House.
Parallel lives? Or just the way US socialism works?
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-file-88-parallel-lives-obamas-man.html
Sorry: didn’t see your post before I posted on same SOURCE. New Zeal is incredibly rich with connections galore.
Trying to stay focused on any early year connections with Obama & Gaspard -— 1980’s (NY & Chicago). Certainly looks like their could be. Finding an Ayers connection in this period would be illuminating.
December 4, 2008
And PATRICK GASPARD may very well be the most brilliant strategist and organizer you have never heard of.
“Patrick is the best political mind of his generation in New York and maybe the nation,” says Kevin Sheekey, who as Michael Bloomberg’s right-hand-man has frequently worked and battled with Gaspard.
“I wouldn’t dispute that,” said David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist and Gaspard’s cohort on the campaign trail. When reminded that such a title could be bestowed on Axelrod himself, the strategist said he was “happy to cede that” to Gaspard.
And yet, for all his abilities, there is shockingly little mention of Gaspard’s accomplishments in the public record. A Lexis Nexis search of his name from before the 2008 campaign reveals next to nothing, a far cry from the star-power personas of former White House political directors like Ed Rollins, Rahm Emanuel and Karl Rove.
“He is one of the most impactful people I have ever met in politics,” said Axelrod.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/04/obamas-glue-man-the-best_n_148415.html
Nope, please enlighten me! LOL
Columbia University Goverment & Community Affairs
Staff:
Kathleen Gaspard
Project Coordinator
Tel: (212) 854-4611
Fax: (212) 851-7719
kg2257@columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gca/vp-staff/staff.html
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ALSO: See link below for several listings for PATRICK GASPARD as currently registered SEIU lobbyist in NYC
AND THIS: Kathleen Gaspard (related?) -— Current Registered Lobbyist in NYC -—
Columbia University
Robert Kasdin; Columbia University
535 West 116th Street_ 302 Low Library
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-3738
Kathleen Gaspard
01/01/2009
12/31/2009
http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?lobbyist=Patrick+Gaspard
Obama did not graduate from Columbia: Pick One: 1) He never attended 2) He attended under a different name. 3) He registered but had some one else write his exams and papers. OOOOooooooooo! No wonder Obama had to put the fear on the CIA!!!! They know something about Obama. The suit is getting emptier and emptier. Soon all we will have left is a Cheshire Cat smile.And all we will have left is the Mad hatter, and the Insane Queen of Hearts!
Not that I know of.
He was a great influence in bringing Carter and Obama the presidency.
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=FinalWarn09-1#Carter
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/EntityDisplay.php?Entity=BrzezinskiZ
Looks like a homosexual couple.
PATRICK GASPARD went to Columbia University but never graduated.
See post #229
No Sheepskin? No Problem.
Which makes Patrick Gaspard so interesting. The Reliable Source has learned that the director of the Office of Political Affairs is the only top staffer who didn’t graduate from college. Nonetheless, he landed one of the most important jobs in the White House.
“He earned it the old-fashioned way, in the muck of street-level politics,” said Paul C. Light, an NYU professor of public service. It’s not unprecedented to have someone in a presidential administration without a college degree, said Light, but very rare at this level. Gaspard, at just 41 years old, has Karl Rove’s old job. (Rove never graduated either. Hmm, maybe you just can’t teach this stuff.)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2009/03/rs-gaspard30.html
They polled 400. I wish I knew out of what colleges. Liberal Arts? Poli Sci? English? Who were these 400?
(Percy Sutton), NYC political icon in the African American community, tells a news reporter that (Dr. Khalid al Mansour) solicited favor and recommendation on behalf of Barack Hussein Obama in order to secure Barack's entry into Harvard. Think about that."
Just about everything about the impostor Obama can be found & he told everyone just what he was planning to do. Some people have still not faced up to the horrible person, anti-American who was and is at war with people like his mother. Impeach the Marxist!
#248 and #254.
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Grouchy this afternoon, huh?
I remember Fox News showing a special about BO last summer and commenting that out of 400, no one remembered him.
Doesn’t surprise me since his whole life is some made up story.
dude! It was a joke and so was Zeb.
LOL
Maybe Obama didn’t go to that Columbia University. ;)
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