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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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.
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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)
At least we now know why the First Wookie is so darned angry.
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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.
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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)
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.
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http://www.allgov.com/Official/Thummalapally_Vinai
http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=061909083306
Exactly. As though he didn’t know how bad they are. Making excuses.
0bama isn’t naive - he’s a freaking fiend.
LOL I think he did go to Columbia but under what name and financial.
Newly Found Article Confirms Obama “Dreams” Fraud
Jack Cashill WorldNetDaily.com - January 15, 2009
No. Did you complete the task yet? I haven’t seen your answer posted.
If I have missed or overlooked the answer to this, my apologies. Does anyone know where sadik is today?
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.
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?)
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?
Seattle working for a community theatre arts group or such...
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