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NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA ( But heck, we're all just racist birthers...yea right! )
antimullah.com ^ | 10/18/2009 | Alan Peters

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)


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To: maggief

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CHESS AND CITY STUDENTS ARE A WINNING MATCH - AS ANALYTICAL GAME CATCHES ON, SOME READING PROBLEMS IN CHECK
Washington Post - Thursday, June 5, 1997

Author: Rene Sanchez, Washington Post Staff Writer
The students taking Fritz Gaspard ‘s new course here at Public School 118 have learned to ignore the strange looks, to tune out all the jokes and taunts that they get about what he’s trying to teach them.
(snip)

“Many of them are intimidated by the game at first,” said Gaspard, who quit his job as a union administrator a few years ago to become a full-time chess instructor, “but once they get going, it has appeal because they compete against each other — kids always like to do that — and they are also learning patience and critical thinking. And you see that carrying over for some of them into other academic subjects.”

Gaspard and other chess teachers who work in public schools here are paid through a nonprofit education program created by the American Chess Foundation. It also donates all the boards and pieces that students need for games.

//

Patrick Gaspard Writes Poems, Collects Comics, Kills for Obama
New York Observer, The (NY) - Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Author: Jason Horowitz
Al Sharpton had just stepped out of a meeting with Barack Obama.

It was January 2007, and he was down in the Obama Senate office during a trip to Washington to meet with a number of Democratic presidential contenders. Mr. Obama had been almost uncannily pitch-perfect, Mr. Sharpton thought, hitting every talking point and preempting every question.

As he was leaving, he caught sight of a familiar face in the reception area of the office.

“I said, ‘That looks like Patrick.’ And Patrick starts laughing,” Mr. Sharpton said.

At the airport on the way back to New York, he said, he had a further revelation.

“It hit me when I got to the shuttle that a lot of what Obama was saying meant that he must have been talking to Patrick Gaspard ,” Mr. Sharpton said. “Obama made me feel like he knew every move I made. I said, ‘Patrick did it again.’”

(snip)

He was born in present-day Democratic Republican of the Congo to Haitian parents, but raised in America, in Manhattan and Queens.

(snip)

Mr. Gaspard’s father moved with his wife from their native Haiti to post-liberation Zaire, when its first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, appealed to French-speaking academics of African descent to teach there. Three years after Mr. Gaspard’s birth, the family moved to the Upper West Side, where they lived until Mr. Gaspard turned 11.

He fell in love with the 1973 Mets, and especially Tom Seaver. Soon the Gaspards, including his brother Michael, who currently works as a consultant for the Advance Group, moved closer to Shea Stadium, to St. Albans in Southeast Queens, from which Mr. Gaspard commuted to high school at Brooklyn Tech.

He attended the School of Visual Arts and later Columbia, but like Mr. Rove before him, Mr. Gaspard left college early to submerge himself in politics. He interned in the office of Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins.

(snip)


341 posted on 10/19/2009 6:06:50 PM PDT by maggief
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To: freekitty

At least we now know why the First Wookie is so darned angry.


342 posted on 10/19/2009 6:07:25 PM PDT by publana (Obama, you will not intimidate me into not voicing my opinions.)
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To: maggief

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CHESS AND CITY STUDENTS ARE A WINNING MATCH - AS ANALYTICAL GAME CATCHES ON, SOME READING PROBLEMS IN CHECK
Washington Post - Thursday, June 5, 1997

Author: Rene Sanchez, Washington Post Staff Writer
The students taking Fritz Gaspard ‘s new course here at Public School 118 have learned to ignore the strange looks, to tune out all the jokes and taunts that they get about what he’s trying to teach them.
(snip)

“Many of them are intimidated by the game at first,” said Gaspard, who quit his job as a union administrator a few years ago to become a full-time chess instructor, “but once they get going, it has appeal because they compete against each other — kids always like to do that — and they are also learning patience and critical thinking. And you see that carrying over for some of them into other academic subjects.”

Gaspard and other chess teachers who work in public schools here are paid through a nonprofit education program created by the American Chess Foundation. It also donates all the boards and pieces that students need for games.

//

Patrick Gaspard Writes Poems, Collects Comics, Kills for Obama
New York Observer, The (NY) - Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Author: Jason Horowitz
Al Sharpton had just stepped out of a meeting with Barack Obama.

It was January 2007, and he was down in the Obama Senate office during a trip to Washington to meet with a number of Democratic presidential contenders. Mr. Obama had been almost uncannily pitch-perfect, Mr. Sharpton thought, hitting every talking point and preempting every question.

As he was leaving, he caught sight of a familiar face in the reception area of the office.

“I said, ‘That looks like Patrick.’ And Patrick starts laughing,” Mr. Sharpton said.

At the airport on the way back to New York, he said, he had a further revelation.

“It hit me when I got to the shuttle that a lot of what Obama was saying meant that he must have been talking to Patrick Gaspard ,” Mr. Sharpton said. “Obama made me feel like he knew every move I made. I said, ‘Patrick did it again.’”

(snip)

He was born in present-day Democratic Republican of the Congo to Haitian parents, but raised in America, in Manhattan and Queens.

(snip)

Mr. Gaspard’s father moved with his wife from their native Haiti to post-liberation Zaire, when its first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, appealed to French-speaking academics of African descent to teach there. Three years after Mr. Gaspard’s birth, the family moved to the Upper West Side, where they lived until Mr. Gaspard turned 11.

He fell in love with the 1973 Mets, and especially Tom Seaver. Soon the Gaspards, including his brother Michael, who currently works as a consultant for the Advance Group, moved closer to Shea Stadium, to St. Albans in Southeast Queens, from which Mr. Gaspard commuted to high school at Brooklyn Tech.

He attended the School of Visual Arts and later Columbia, but like Mr. Rove before him, Mr. Gaspard left college early to submerge himself in politics. He interned in the office of Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins.

(snip)


343 posted on 10/19/2009 6:10:58 PM PDT by maggief
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To: El Gato
According to this article, the department currently has about 350 undergraduate majors. That's spread over (at least) 3 classes, probably 3 1/2 would be a fairer estimate. So, about a 100 graduates per year, more or less.

Columbia College increased the number of students it admitted back in the late 1990's and early 2000's, so the number back in Obama's day was likely a bit smaller. The total undergraduate population is about 20% higher these days, so if the major has 100 graduating students per year now, it likely had 80 or fewer back in the 1980's.

But it's still pretty easy to get lost in a crowd of 80 students if you don't do anything to distinguish yourself. If he studied on his own, took only large lecture classes, lived off campus, didn't participate in many student clubs or events, and wasn't an academic star, it's pretty plausible that very few of his classmates or professors would remember him.

344 posted on 10/19/2009 6:16:49 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: houeto

Please acknowledge...


345 posted on 10/19/2009 6:17:12 PM PDT by houeto (I peered inside the Treasury's door, the entire vault was empty. We've been robbed!)
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To: Fred Nerks
Interesting that the New York Slimes printed the old "Sundial" article. IIRC, it first appeared on the Internet before the July 6, 2009 date that it was posted in FR as per your link.
346 posted on 10/19/2009 6:21:11 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: thouworm; LucyT; MHGinTN

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=38624

http://belize.usembassy.gov/ambassador.html

http://www.allgov.com/Official/Thummalapally_Vinai

http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=061909083306


347 posted on 10/19/2009 6:22:17 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: mojitojoe

Exactly. As though he didn’t know how bad they are. Making excuses.

0bama isn’t naive - he’s a freaking fiend.


348 posted on 10/19/2009 6:27:59 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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To: curiosity
Barry didn't room with Sadik in New York.

"Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance", by Barack Obama, Page 120:
"When Sadik lost his lease, we moved in together."
349 posted on 10/19/2009 6:33:21 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: publana

LOL I think he did go to Columbia but under what name and financial.


350 posted on 10/19/2009 6:34:15 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Fred Nerks; justiceseeker93; kellynla; Lancey Howard; pissant; LucyT; BP2

351 posted on 10/19/2009 6:35:52 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: justiceseeker93
Interesting that the New York Slimes printed the old "Sundial" article. IIRC, it first appeared on the Internet before the July 6, 2009 date that it was posted in FR as per your link.

Newly Found Article Confirms Obama “Dreams” Fraud

Jack Cashill WorldNetDaily.com - January 15, 2009

352 posted on 10/19/2009 6:36:56 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Pelagius of Asturias

No. Did you complete the task yet? I haven’t seen your answer posted.


353 posted on 10/19/2009 6:39:41 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
You're right, there was at least one thread about this. Let's see... oh, wow:
354 posted on 10/19/2009 6:43:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Brown Deer

If I have missed or overlooked the answer to this, my apologies. Does anyone know where sadik is today?


355 posted on 10/19/2009 6:44:29 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Does anyone know where sadik is today?

Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now works for a community theater in Seattle.
356 posted on 10/19/2009 6:54:56 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: justiceseeker93

That photograph of Obama on a bench in New York’s Central Park is photoshopped.

1. He has on his wedding ring. He wouldn’t be married until years later.

2. His grandpa’s left hand is ‘floating’ over Barry’s left shoulder but grandpa’s own left shoulder is positioned so his arm would be down at his own side, not extended outward.

People out there who regularly use Photoshop can probably find even more irregularities.


357 posted on 10/19/2009 6:59:02 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: RGSpincich
He goes on to say that there are probably some black students who remember Obama at Columbia.

Well, do you know of any black student at Columbia who has stepped up and told the world that he or she knew him back then? (BTW, one fellow black student actually made a little video about his time with Obama at Occidental, and other students had said that they knew him from there as well. Does it make any sense that he'd be known well at Occidental but not at Columbia, to which he purportedly transferred?)

358 posted on 10/19/2009 6:59:17 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: SatinDoll

Thanks for the info on the Central Park photo, Satin Doll. Could you possibly post that photo again so that we can check it out?


359 posted on 10/19/2009 7:04:34 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Seattle working for a community theatre arts group or such...


360 posted on 10/19/2009 7:07:39 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
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