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)
The park bench photo is discussed to a nicety and posted on the thread below, which is also linked to in a comment above. Other very interesting photos and discussion, mostly starts around after 200:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359747/posts?q=1&;page=201
The way that I understand it, is that they were roommates in a studio apartment.
“...but what about CIA?”
Perhaps ‘they’ were keeping an eye on him? But we don’t know for certain that the outfit he was working for was CIA. Might have been nothing but a rumour...
And every ‘interview’ conducted with a past acquaintance has the same gushing ring to it. All sound the same - as if scripted.
Where did Obama graduate from High School?
thank you both...his only friend perhaps?
http://pakistaniat.com/2008/09/01/barak-obama-pakistan/#
excerpt:
...Siddiqi offered the most expansive account of Obama as a young man. “We were both very lost. We were both alienated, although he might not put it that way. He arrived disheveled and without a place to stay,” said Siddiqi, who at the time worked as a waiter and as a salesman at a boutique… In about 1982, Siddiqi and Obama got an apartment at a sixth-floor walkup on East 94th Street. Siddiqi managed to get the apartment thanks to subterfuge. “We didn’t have a chance in hell of getting this apartment unless we fabricated the lease application,” Siddiqi said. Siddiqi fudged his credentials, saying he had a high-paying job at a catering company, but Obama “wanted no part of it. He put down the truth.”
The apartment was “a slum of a place” in a drug-ridden neighborhood filled with gunshots, he said. “It wasn’t a comfortable existence. We were slumming it.” What little furniture they had was found on the street, and guests would have to hold their dinner plates in their laps. While Obama has acknowledged using marijuana and cocaine during high school in Hawaii, he writes in the memoir that he stopped using soon after his arrival in New York. His roommate had no such scruples. But Siddiqi says that during their time together here, Obama always refused his offers of drugs...
I am sure that all the anti-Orly floating around here have a valid explanation!!!
tick tock tick tock......
It’s called “Six degrees of separation” and what I’ve heard, it works. Someone I know talks to someone they know and real quick YOU get a phone call from a friend with my message.
What’s the latest from Judge Carter? I’ve heard nothing of late...
Don’t forget the OTHER Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover on your list of evil and otherwise useless presidents.
Are you saying he’s a vampire, unable to tolerate the light of day? (Or a Marxist, EQUALLY unable to tolerate light being shone on his activities.)
NO wackjobs ALLOWED. He wants YOU gone, doesn’t he?
Yes, but have you seen the Harding Memorial in Marion, Ohio? You would think that he was the next best thing to George Washington.
It IS POSSIBLE to quit an addictive drug cold turkey— IF you have the right motivation to do so... I did it with tobacco. One day I’ll tell you what my motivation was, but it worked. HOWEVER, with a drug like cocaine, it would take a LIFE-CHANGING sort of motivation and from the little we are allowed to know of The One, that ain’t him. Especially if he’s still a smoker. I mean, why not get rid of BOTH destructive habits at once? No, while it CAN be done, The One didn’t do it.
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