Below is a list of Barack Obama’s friends and roommates who knew him in high school and college. * Robert McCrary a former classmate at Occidental College. McCrary is now a general manager of a contract sewing company. He saw Obama as "cocky, sometimes arrogant...and not open to others." * Paul Carpenter Obama's freshman roommate at Occidental and now a Los Angeles lawyer. Carpenter recalls Obama being a "a good bodysurfer", "an athletic guy", and "superbright". * Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York's Lehman College. * Jon K. Mitchell a friend...
