Why doesn't anyone remember a Barack Obama at Columbia Class of 1983?

Public Domain | 6/4/2010 | nikos1121

[Cyclone59]

I am convinced that he is afraid of exposing his entire life as a fraud. He will look worse that that AG from up north that bragged about his service in Vietnam. He was born by different parents, probably never finished college and probably never stepped foot on the campus of Harvard. He didn’t write any of his own books.

[nascarnation]

Good points.
What interests me most is that the media investigated more about Joe the plumber Wurzelbacher in 24 hours than they did in Baraq’s 24 months of the campaign.

[bjorn14]

Probably, If you pull on that one loose end it all comes unraveled. However, I did see a video of him introducing some prof at HU.

[Qbert]

That is actually a lot less believable than Obama's own version. Barack working for a living! Ok, I see your point. I've revised my theory: he conned some idiot Columbia union worker into giving him a job as a janitor, and then he got paid even though he never showed up for work. Which would explain why he doesn't know how to actually clean up anything (especially the Gulf.)

[nascarnation]

Read the article cited in Snopes that Baraq wrote for the Columbia paper.

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM116_obamaessay.html

How in God’s name could we have elected this guy?

What a testimonial to the triumph of the MSM/SCM

[wideminded]

Actually they would be well known within their major area because students know most folks in their major, and newcomers would stand out.

So a better test would be to ask all the Columbia students who graduated in '83 who majored in the same field as Obama, which IIRC was international relations (see below).

It is my observation that college students very often have a circle of friends that centers around people they met freshman year. So transfer students do tend to know fewer people.

No one, as far as I know claims to know Obama from Columbia.

This has been debunked so many times. There are multiple roommates who remember him, one of whom also transferred from Occidental and published his recollections in a Columbia alumni magazine. One of his fellow students in international relations became president of MTV. There is a professor who remembers him. These people all claim to remember him from Columbia. And of course Columbia itself claims that he went there.

[afnamvet]

snopes.com is not an unbiased source. Google: snopes founders.

[xkaydet65]

I’ll be one of the first to accept your POV if pointed in the right direction. I can tell you that his description of his neighborhood, the 90s on the East Side is nothing like my memories of that area in the 80s. It was crawling with yuppies and high end bars, not druggies perps and skels. Also, it would not have been off campus housing for Columbia as it is about three miles and two busses or one bus and one subway ride from Columbia.Basically 24 blocks south and the width of Manhattan east of Columbia.Inever said he did not attend Columbia, but I am suspicious of the quality of his attendance. One prof remembers him, a man who became POTUS.That’s absurd, unless he was involved in a non traditonal program that focused on a specific type of learning. Like maybe one authored by William Ayers who was an academic in NYC at that time.

[wideminded]

When Clinton ran for POTUS my classmates who had gone to Gtown and whom I kept in contact ALL knew Clinton,

I spoke to some people who went to Yale with Bush. None of them remembered him. They did not assume that he must not have attended Yale or that he skipped class. They decided that he must have been spending most of his time with his DKE fraternity brothers.

[worst-case scenario]

There is no unbiased source about anything. You have to check out the spin and facts of everyone, do your own research. I regard snopes as *accurate*. I can ignore bias; I want to see *facts*.

That’s why it’s possible to read the news from a variety of sources, acknowledge their biases, collect the facts, and make up your own conclusions. It’s like doing scientific research.

Snopes has the benefit of being itself checked out by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. Any inaccuracy is pulled apart pretty quickly. The rumor that snopes.com is a “secret tool of the Democrat party” has been itself examined and debunked in a number of places. How do I know? I did what you suggest and googled snopes founders.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/snopes.htm

I hope that you don’t ignore factually accurate material because you don’t like the cut of the political jib of the messenger. You miss a lot of great information that way.

[M Kehoe]

As an American citizen, I would appreciate if the president of the U.S. would stop bowing to foreign leaders. It really is embarrassing.

5.56mm

[Theodore R.]

He’s doing what his supporters want, and they are how many million now?

[M Kehoe]

He’s doing what his supporters want, and they are how many million now?

I don't know, but one thing is for sure, the one's supporters are decreasing rapidly. Even some of the die hard liberals/socialists/democRATs are abandoning the sinking ship.

5.56mm

[Dr. Eckleburg]

[Terry Mross]

ROSEMARY’S BABY!

[Terry Mross]

Here’s what the real deal is. If YOU had become president everyone that ever had a class and every professor and every secretary would think a minute and say “Now I remember him!” Including George what-ever-pus.

[aruanan]

So did he go from being "husky" as a child to being really slim as an adult simply because of smoking? His legs as a child are almost as big as his mom's.

[1000 silverlings]

he’s like a college football player, the ones who go to school for 4 years and never attend a class. A sponser (in this case, his master, the sheik of Saudi Arabia) gives them money and cars and then the sponsor benefits when they make it to the pros

[Doulos1]

You’re exactly right!

[Jonah Vark]

Here’s an article, with photos, about someone who was Obama’s roommate when he attended Columbia University in NYC........

Obama’s Mysterious Special Friends -

.......”This article, based on Boerner’s recollections, does not say that Sohale Siddiqi was a roommate of Obama and Boerner, but nearly every source I could find stated that Obama and Sohale Siddiqi were roommates while Obama attended Columbia University in NYC, at the time these photos were taken.”

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/07/11/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/