Who’s to say he wrote the article? He didn’t write his biography and then there’s his, “you didn’t build that” quote.
All of us litle nobodies without exotic names have people who remember us from college. If not, we did manaage to end up in the yearbook somewhere, if not with an individual picture then in a club or activity or some other random picture. We can be found listed in event, membership and commencement programs. So, where’s Mr. Won-derful? Many colleges back during that time would send a notice to your hometown newspaper that you made the Dean’s List, won a scholarhip or was elected an officer of some academic society. So, Honolulu Star and Advertiser, where are all the “local boy does good” articles? Even if his classmates had to play Six Degrees to Barry, they’d be coming out of the woodwork to claim they knew him when but it’s basically crickets.
I just reread the Sundial article. Content aside, it's fairly well written, passable for an Ivy League senior in terms of such basics as sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, and, and syntax, but does not impress as the work of a literary genius.
Since Bill Ayers was believed to have been in the neighborhood at the time, would be interested in the subject, and is believed to have later ghostwritten at least one book under Obama's name, it's possible Ayers could have done this article. Jack Cashill would be an expert on this issue.
So, Honolulu Star and Advertiser, where are all the “local boy does good” articles? Even if his classmates had to play Six Degrees to Barry, they’d be coming out of the woodwork to claim they knew him when but it’s basically crickets.
Yes, there's a striking contrast between the total absence of contemporary newspaper coverage of Zero's purported years at Columbia and the noteworthy and favorable newspaper coverage of his later years at Harvard Law School.
“.....Many colleges back during that time would send a notice to your hometown newspaper that you made the Dean’s List,won a scholarhip or was elected an officer of some academic society.......”
Won a scholarship.... Hmmmm .... didn’t he get a full scholarship to Occidental?
Where is THAT in the newspapers?
(And how about that “who’s who” book they publish?)