"What difference does it make?"
Posted on 03/16/2013 8:05:51 PM PDT by jjotto
I graduated from Bir Zeit on the Hudson [Columbia University] a little too early to remember Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack Hussein Obama. But isn't it more than a little curious that not a single one of the 25 members of the Columbia College Class of 1983 - allegedly Obama's class - who lives in Israel remembers him?
What are Obama's classmates in Israel up to? Quite a few, like him, went straight to law school after finishing their undergraduate degrees. One is a doctor, several are engineers, and a few hold top jobs in finance. There's an architect in the group, a tour guide, a librarian, a speech pathologist, an occupational therapist and a journalist. Most are married with children (about three on average ), a few are already grandparents, while others, who came to parenting relatively late in life, are still chasing around toddlers. Among the group are also two married couples who began dating while in college.
They're scattered around the country, but Beit Shemesh and Ra'anana seem to be their preferred locales. Four live in Jerusalem and its outskirts, three in Tel Aviv, two are up north in Kfar Vradim, and two live over the Green Line in the settlement of Ginot Shomron.
But here's the thing: Not one of us remembers Barack Obama - who transferred to Columbia after his sophomore year at Occidental College in California - from our undergrad years, nor do we know anyone else who does.
"If he wasn't on my radar, he wasn't on anyone's radar," asserts Jamie Miller, a mother of five, who lives in Beit Shemesh and remains active in the alumni association, traveling back to New York every five years to attend reunions.
"I was a cheerleader, so I knew all the jocks," says Miller, who went to law school after college and today works as a librarian and English teacher. "I was in the marching band, I worked on the yearbook, and I was involved in student government, so I knew everyone. But I never saw him around."
Sarah Graber Nehrer, a speech pathologist who moved with her family from the United States to Rehovot last summer, says she became curious about Obama even before his first presidential run. "When he first came on the political scene, back when he was running for the Senate, I was living in Illinois, and I was like, 'Wait, this guy went to school with me,'" she explains. "But I had no recollection of him whatsoever, and neither did anyone else I know, which I found very strange."
Compared with other American universities, Columbia, a member of the prestigious Ivy League, is small. Its graduating class in 1983 - including Columbia College for men, Barnard College for women and the College of Engineering - had fewer than 2,000 students. And since the campus itself, located in the uptown Manhattan neighborhood of Morningside Heights, is also quite small, the opportunities to bump into your classmates and get to know faces over a period of four years were abundant.
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Yet another classmate, Michael Teplow, notes that someone with presidential aspirations "wouldn't be shy, but in fact, quite gregarious," which is why he, too, was surprised to discover "when I first started flipping through my yearbook looking for his picture that he wasn't there, and I didn't remember him at all." Like Obama, Teplow went onto law school after he graduated Columbia. Today he lives in the settlement of Ginot Shomron, from which he travels each weekday to his law firm in Tel Aviv. Most of his practice is in corporate law, but Teplow has also built up a pro-bono side practice over the years representing Palestinians who have served as informers for Israel's security forces.
Another Tel Aviv corporate lawyer in the group is Norman Menachem Feder, a senior partner in Caspi & Co., who once clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon. "I spent most of my time at Columbia either in the library or in the gym practicing for fencing, so if Obama wasn't hanging out in those places, I wouldn't have seen him," he notes.
Teddy Weinberger moved to Israel 15 years ago with his wife and former classmate Sarah Jane Ross, who works in institutional sales at Excellence Nessuah investment house. From their home in Givat Ze'ev, in the West Bank just north of Jerusalem, where the couple live with their five children, Weinberger continues to maintain close ties with many of his old college buddies, and says he understands why Obama may not have been on any of their radar. "He was a transfer student living off campus and that made it possible for him to keep such a low profile."
What might be a fair comparison is to ask how many of them knew another famous Columbian from that era - George Stephanopoulos - who was a class ahead of them.
You don't think Barry lied about going to Columbia, do you?
He’s not in the yearbook? Wow..
Oh well, big deal, who cares?
Who cares at all the the imposter of the United States fell from outer space?
Obama Lie?
He Serves the “Father-of-Lies”
Enough said.
The important thing is that the MSM will send out their best investigative reporters and dig up some lies about Pope Francis.
He may have been on the maintenance staff.
What if you find someone who does know him?
What does it matter now?
It took someone five years to write this?
I was at columbia’s school of general studies at the time. I graduated in 86. I transferred from American University. AU was about the same kind of college that Obama transferred from...Occidental I believe.
I think Obama also attended the school of general studies. There is certainly evidence that he was on campus as there is an article online by him about nuclear disarmament in the Columbia Spectator. I have also seen his name in telephone book when he lived on E96 st.
One of the guys I know from the time claims he knew guys who knew Obama when he lived on W 108 (or W 107) and that he attended a poetry reading we gave at the West End.
If that happens, I suppose we will be told to put the whole thing to rest.......
Apparently Moo was his first and only girlfriend.
His “Down Low” baby.
Has any other woman ever come out and admitted to dating the guy?
This is just a topical piece from Israel because of Obama’s first trip there.
There’s a phenomenon called ‘Jewish geography’ in which Jews quiz each other and tell stories about how they have some direct or indirect contact with a celebrity or some Jewish stranger.
In this case, 25 Jews in Israel who attended Columbia at the same time as O didn’t have any connection or stories about a future POTUS. Very unusual indeed, although other posts on this thread do have such stories.
"What difference does it make?"
I wonder how many of his class reunions he’s gone to or spoken at? I mean, since he’s a person of distinction, perhaps with more name recognition than anyone else he went to school with..
I found Obama’s Australian girlfriend, Genevieve Cook’s diary entries to be interesting: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0503/Obama-s-ex-girlfriend-what-her-diaries-reveal
Of course the British tabloids have a different take!
“The white girlfriends Obama erased from his past...:” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163468/Barack-Obama-The-white-girlfriends-US-President-erased-past.html
Bookmark....Oh look, hee hee hee...
Thanks for that :)
What Hawaiian hospital has a statue or plaque out front proudly proclaiming 44 was born there?
Maybe there is one but i am just wondering....
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