Posted on 09/13/2008 3:58:27 PM PDT by pjsbro
My reaction was "WHEW" I doged the bullet, I grew up in NYC, but left about the same time he showed up there.
Everything about this creeps me out. Something...scratch that; everything is not right here. Ok; so he spent 1979 to 1985 going to school at Occidental and then Columbia and “the workplace,” which as far as I know, no one knows anything about. Also, transferring credits to an Ivy League school, even from another private school, is easier said than done. I find it somewhat unusual, though not impossible, that he could just transfer to Columbia without a hitch in his academic calendar. Oh yeah, one more thing. One very important thing....why did he transfer at all? Occidental is a very good school. Who was in NYC or Columbia that he wanted to study with, be with, hang out with, etc...?
Distance will give us the proper prospective, and it may very well be that he never did get close at all
Upthread you said, 'God help us all'. He has, he gave McCain the insight, courage, and verv to name Sarah.
do we know what workplace?
"Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group." - Wikipedia
As far as I know PIRG's are organizations started by Ralph Nader. Here's more on Business International Corporation from the NYT
: "Dan Armstrong, who worked with Mr. Obama at Business International Corporation in New York in 1984 and has deconstructed Mr. Obama’s account of the job on his blog, analyzethis.net, wrote: “All of Barack’s embellishment serves a larger narrative purpose: to retell the story of the Christ’s temptation. The young, idealistic, would-be community organizer gets a nice suit, joins a consulting house, starts hanging out with investment bankers, and barely escapes moving into the big mansion with the white folks.”
In an interview, Mr. Armstrong added: “There may be some truth to that. But in order to make it a good story, it required a bit of exaggeration.”
Mr. Armstrong’s description of the firm, and those of other co-workers, differs at least in emphasis from Mr. Obama’s. It was a small newsletter-publishing and research firm, with about 250 employees worldwide, that helped companies with foreign operations (they could be called multinationals) understand overseas markets, they said. Far from a bastion of corporate conformity, they said, it was informal and staffed by young people making modest wages. Employees called it “high school with ashtrays.”
Many workers dressed down. Only the vice president in charge of Mr. Obama’s division got a secretary, they said. Mr. Obama was a researcher and writer for a reference service called Financing Foreign Operations. He also wrote for a newsletter, Business International Money Report.
“It was not working for General Foods or Chase Manhattan, that’s for sure,” said Louis Celi, a vice president at the company, which was later taken over by the Economist Intelligence Unit. “And it was not a consulting firm by any stretch of the imagination. I remember the first time I interviewed someone from Morgan Stanley and I got cheese on my tie because I thought my tie was a napkin.”
interesting, thank you
He wasn't bright enough to get a good job, but WAS bright enough to get into Harvard Law School after working at a place like that? Maybe his stint at NYPIRG connected him, but something is fishy here.
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