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)
This is definitely the biggest untold story of the decade. The fact that there are no footprints leads one to believe that the story has been sanitized. Its amazing that the MSM spent untold effort in Alaska digging on Sarah Palin and had no interest at all in this story or who Barrack Hussein Obama actually was (other than the image carefully crafted in his autobiography).
Someone should look up his Paki roomates and get an exclu$ive interview with them. It would be very interesting, I predict........
” 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 aint him.”
Absolutely.
George W Bush quit smoking and alcohol .
Kicking anything is hard, hard work.
I don’t believe for a nanosecond that this guy stopped using.
And I don’t believe his BS that he never did heroin.
I have never , ever , ever seen a more self indulgent ,
lazy near 50 yr old in my life than Barry.
Does this bag of filth do anything , but, play basketball ?
The American taxpayer should not be paying $ 102,00/ year for Barry’s special man friend ( Reggie Love )
whose only job is to play basketball .
Drudge has a vomit inducing picture of the two lovebirds on his site, today.
It would be offensive enough to watch any grown man behave this way.
But, it is repulsive to see the Commander in Chief
acting every day like he just won
the Powerball while our guys are in trouble in Afghanistan.
because Hussein was the MSM’s “boy”...
and of course NO ONE was gonna question Hussein's pedigree for fear of being called a “RACIST!” which is the same reason why Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Levin and the rest of the "conservatives" haven't questioned it either..."all hat, no cattle!"
This is exactly why it is so important now to discover who BHO was, and is. The media has allowed an imposter to usurp the throne, and they should be exposed for their dastardly deed.
The opportunity for Columbia General Studies Student, which is what Obama was, to take courses with Brzezinski and Hilsman simply did not exist.
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Not true. I was a General Studies student. I took graduate level courses with Brezinski as an undergraduate.
The Obama campaign declined to discuss Obamas time at Columbia and his friendships in general. It wont, for example, release his transcript or name his friends. It did, however, list five locations where Obama lived during his four years here: three on Manhattans Upper West Side and two in Brooklyn one in Park Slope, the other in Brooklyn Heights.
His memoir mentions two others on Manhattans Upper East Side.
HOWEVER:
This page from the 1982 Manhattan phonebook lists "B. Obama" as living at 339 East 94th St. (The 1982 directory is the first one Obama could have appeared in, since the 1981 directory was printed before Obama's arrival.)
Yet this page, from the 1985 Manhattan phonebook, shows that he was still living at the same address -- even having the same phone number. And he was in the following year's directory as well, still at 339 East 94th St.
Since when has the BHO team ever released more helpful information, rather than less.
More Here: ZombieTime
Maybe this is what they are talking about. It's from January 2005 in Columbia College Today, not the main alumni magazine The Columbian.
That article doesn’t appear to involve an interview. But it does contain the monk quote.
Good find. Too many questions, and the trail grows colder. I think there is something here.....wish there were more answers.
“Federal law limits the information that Columbia can release about Mr. Obama’s time there. A spokesman for the university, Brian Connolly, confirmed that Mr. Obama spent two years at Columbia College and graduated in 1983 with a major in political science. He did not receive honors, Mr. Connolly said, though specific information on his grades is sealed. A program from the 1983 graduation ceremony lists him as a graduate.”
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/
Asked and answered. Kelly asked the wackjob to stop posting.
And yet here you are...
But it's strange that already in 2004-5, Obama played up his mother's Kansas roots, when she was more Washington state, or Hawaii or Indonesia, than Kansas.
Upon graduating from Columbia, Obama attempted a career as a community organizer. He wrote that when classmates werent sure what that was, he didnt have a sufficient answer for them. Instead, Id pronounce the need for change, he wrote. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change wont come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.
What classmates? This rings false, as do a lot of his reminiscences.
One blogger/alum noted that when Obama wrote a fundraising letter for Columbia, there wasn't any of the lively local detail that would make people believe he went to school there. I'm not saying he didn't, but it's strange.
Here's a NY Times article from the beginning of the campagin: Obamas Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say. It does name a professor and a student who claim to remember Obama during his Columbia years.
Could be he attended as a ‘Native Hawaiian.’ Obviously, this is where I am leaning now. (http://misstickly.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/lord-monckton/}
Notice this ‘global outlook’ on the elementary schools’ homepage:
“Our vision, created by the school community, “Noelani is our launching pad to the global community,” steadfastly illustrates our purpose and mission of being “a learning community that nurtures responsible world citizens.”
http://www.noelani.k12.hi.us/Site/Home.html
Exactly. The ARE people that remember him from Columbia. The whole notion that he didn't even go there is nuts. Here are more details from a Columbia wiki. His roommate from Occidental and Columbia has written an article in a Columbia alumni magazine. The whole idea that he could publicly claim to have gone to Columbia if he did not and then run for president and the university never denies his claim is also crazy.
Bingo. Where are the admission forms etc?
Agreed. The link supplies the missing details.
I still believe there is more to the story. He may have been quite radicalized by the Columbia environment. The destructive behavior that we see from him today could have been predicted had we known more of his Columbia years.
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