“He doesn’t appear to make a big deal of his having gone to Columbia. In fact, he barely ever mentions it,” history professor Eric Foner said during the election.
At the ServiceNation forum, Obama said, “This is my alma mater. And I want to thank”—he was then cut off by overwhelming applause, and continued—“I was saying, though, that the neighborhood’s changed. When I came here in 1980—some of the apartments around here didn’t look quite like what they look like now. And I could afford them. I don’t think I can now.”
Obama lived off-campus after transferring from Occidental College in Los Angeles. His political science classmate, Michael Ackerman, CC ’84, recalled him as “almost chameleon-like, spy-like, slipped in and out. He tried to keep to himself.”
this is another strange thing to me.
Columbia is a top grades school or supposed to be and yet hardly ever mentions it, no photo’s about of him there , no one remembers him no teachers know him.
Have I missed it or am I right on this?
Whether it be "his" books, the pictures that are released, they all raise more questions than are answered.
It has to be deliberate.
“...slipped in and out.”
I expect it’s more like “slithered” than “slipped”.