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Was Barack Obama A Foreign Exchange Student?
IBD Editorials ^ | August 9, 2012

Posted on 08/09/2012 5:38:57 PM PDT by raptor22

Transparency: A former classmate has added a tantalizing question to the mysteries surrounding Barack Obama's college years. Perhaps the GOP nominee, whose tax records are demanded, should call the president's bluff.

Not many students whose grades supposedly were good enough to get into Harvard Law School can say that 400 of their classmates taken randomly don't remember a single thing about him or his even being there. But Barack Obama, Columbia University class of '83, can.

Student Obama spent two years at Columbia after transferring there from Occidental College in Los Angeles. And for all the impression he made on his classmates, he might as well have been in the witness protection program.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News called that random group of 400 Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.

Like most transfer students, Obama lived off-campus, a factoid defenders use to explain his apparent lack of human contact during his Columbia years. Obama himself does not speak much about his years at Columbia and Harvard Law, other than he attended both and was elected president of the Harvard Law Review.

Interestingly, Obama contributed not one signed word to the Harvard Law Review or any other legal publication. As Matthew Franck has pointed out in National Review Online, "A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at anytime." A curious factoid for an alleged scholar.

In October 2007, the New York Times ran a piece titled "Obama's Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say," which would have won the Pulitzer Prize for understatements if there was one.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barrysoetoro; columbia; foreignstudent; ibd; lyingtraitor; naturalborncitizen; obama; obamabio; pos
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Barry Soetoro, class clown
1 posted on 08/09/2012 5:39:05 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

Can we exchange him back for a refund?


2 posted on 08/09/2012 5:42:02 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: raptor22

The Canadian left would probably love to swap him for Harper. I’d make that deal and eat Obama’s salary too.


3 posted on 08/09/2012 5:46:56 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: raptor22

Was Barack Obama A Foreign Exchange Student?
No.
But Barry Soetoro was.


4 posted on 08/09/2012 5:49:30 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: raptor22

Can any student ask that his/her records not be released to anyone? If not, what gives these schools the authority to not release Obama’s?


5 posted on 08/09/2012 5:49:59 PM PDT by RC2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMeDmV0ufU)
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To: raptor22

Harry Reid: “The word is out...”


6 posted on 08/09/2012 5:51:06 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: raptor22

We’ll never know because barry & co. spent millions to keep that a secret. That’s a lot of money to spend to keep skeletons in the closet.


7 posted on 08/09/2012 5:51:21 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: raptor22

We’ll never know because barry & co. spent millions to keep that a secret. That’s a lot of money to spend to keep skeletons in the closet.


8 posted on 08/09/2012 5:51:45 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: RC2
If not, what gives these schools the authority to not release Obama’s?The law.
9 posted on 08/09/2012 5:53:59 PM PDT by fso301
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

We already know he’s foreign; the sexchange is mythical, probably results from his habit of savoring other men; and, he was a student in a madrassa or two, and maybe in some US public schools. No one remembers him at Columbia because he never went there. Thanks raptor22.


10 posted on 08/09/2012 5:55:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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IMO Barry Soetoro flunked out of Occidental due to excessive pot smoking. Not wanting his classmates to know, he told them he was “transferring” to Columbia (that's impressive) but never got into Columbia because he never applied. He may have “audited” some classes(read, sat in on large lecture classes where he wouldn't be known or recognized or remembered) and then had some of his commie professors write recommendations to Harvard to admit the foreign exchange student Barack Obama. This is affirmative action on steroids.
11 posted on 08/09/2012 6:01:09 PM PDT by immadashell
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Don't know why this is what it is, but Obama has CIA written all over him. Disinformation is how the CIA operates and there is a sh_t load of disinformation covering up Obama’s past.
12 posted on 08/09/2012 6:06:25 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: raptor22

Geeze.
It’s only taken 5 years to fan the flames of journalistic curiosity.


13 posted on 08/09/2012 6:10:17 PM PDT by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: raptor22
Since Occidental College only has about 2,000 students it may be easier to find someone from his years there that remembers him.
14 posted on 08/09/2012 6:12:19 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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Barry Soetoro - class clown


15 posted on 08/09/2012 6:18:19 PM PDT by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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Barry Soetoro - class clown


16 posted on 08/09/2012 6:19:01 PM PDT by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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To: raptor22; All

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If only America knew...

The best Obama exposure site on the net:
(By our own Beckwith)

The Obama File
http://theobamafile.com/

The United States Library of Congress has selected
TheObamaFile.com for inclusion in its historic collection
of Internet materials
http://theobamafile.com/LibraryOfCongress.html

Just a few pages of ‘The Obama File’:

http://theobamafile.com/index_next_politics.html

http://www.theobamafile.com/index_next_personal.html

http://www.theobamafile.com/BarackObama.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/_family/FamilyPage.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaEducation.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaPsychology.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaReligion.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaWife.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/ObamaAssociates.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaIconography.htm

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17 posted on 08/09/2012 6:19:22 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Lady Jag; Slings and Arrows; null and void; maggief; Dog; BP2; Candor7; ...

ping to the POS-


18 posted on 08/09/2012 6:23:56 PM PDT by bitt (These Commies are making it impossible to stick to my self-imposed moratorium on foul language)
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To: raptor22

Good to see in IBD. This is a credible publication. I hear Brietbart Drip Drip Drip. Can you say October surprise coming.


19 posted on 08/09/2012 6:29:09 PM PDT by ncfool (OMG 2012)
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To: RC2
"Can any student ask that his/her records not be released to anyone? If not, what gives these schools the authority to not release Obama’s?"

One's records can ONLY be released if the student signs a release. The only reason Republican's grades (if not flattering) come out is that University Records Offices are pretty much over-run with College bureaucratic hangers-on, who, as a class, tend to be highly unethical when it serves some leftist purpose.

20 posted on 08/09/2012 6:29:09 PM PDT by cookcounty (Kagan and Sotomayor side with Joe Wilson: -------Obama DID lie!)
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