Posted on 08/07/2012 6:03:56 PM PDT by rdb3
I am President Obama’s classmate at Columbia University, Class of ’83. I am also one of the most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. And I smell something rotten in Denmark. Obama has a big skeleton in his closet. It’s his college records. Call it “gut instinct” but my gut is almost always right. Obama has a secret hidden at Columbia- and it’s a bad one that threatens to bring down his presidency. Gut instinct is how I’ve made my living for 29 years since graduating Columbia.
Obama and his infamous strategist David Axelrod understand how to play political hardball, the best it’s ever been played. Team Obama has decided to distract America’s voters by condemning Mitt Romney for not releasing enough years of his tax returns. It’s the perfect cover. Obama knows the best defense is a bold offense. Just keep attacking Mitt and blaming him for secrecy and evasion, while accusing him of having a scandal that doesn’t exist. Then ask followers like Senator Harry Reid to chase the lead. The U.S. Senate Majority Leader appears to now be making up stories out of thin air, about tax returns he knows nothing about. It’s a cynical, brilliant, and vicious strategy. Make Romney defend, so he can’t attack the real Obama scandal.
This is classic Axelrod. Obama has won several elections in his career by slandering his opponents and leaking sealed documents. Not only do these insinuations and leaks ruin the credibility and reputation of Obama’s opponents, they keep them on the defensive and off Obama’s trail of sealed documents.
By attacking Romney’s tax records, Obama’s socialist cabal creates a problem that doesn’t exist. Is the U.S. Senate Majority Leader making up stories out of thin air? You decide. But the reason for this baseless attack is clear- make Romney defend, so not only is he “off message” but it helps the media ignore the real Obama scandal.
My answer for Romney? Call Obama’s bluff.
Romney should call a press conference and issue a challenge in front of the nation. He should agree to release more of his tax returns, only if Obama unseals his college records. Simple and straight-forward. Mitt should ask “What could possibly be so embarrassing in your college records from 29 years ago that you are afraid to let America’s voters see? If it’s THAT bad, maybe it’s something the voters ought to see.” Suddenly the tables are turned. Now Obama is on the defensive.
My bet is that Obama will never unseal his records because they contain information that could destroy his chances for re-election. Once this challenge is made public, my prediction is you’ll never hear about Mitt’s tax returns ever again.
Why are the college records, of a 51-year-old President of the United States, so important to keep secret? I think I know the answer.
If anyone should have questions about Obama’s record at Columbia University, it’s me. We both graduated (according to Obama) Columbia University, Class of ’83. We were both (according to Obama) Pre-Law and Political Science majors. And I thought I knew most everyone at Columbia. I certainly thought I’d heard of all of my fellow Political Science majors. But not Obama (or as he was known then- Barry Soetoro). I never met him. Never saw him. Never even heard of him. And none of the classmates that I knew at Columbia have ever met him, saw him, or heard of him.
But don’t take my word for it. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News randomly called 400 of our Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.
Now all of this mystery could be easily and instantly dismissed if Obama released his Columbia transcripts to the media. But even after serving as President for 3 1/2 years he refuses to unseal his college records. Shouldn’t the media be as relentless in pursuit of Obama’s records as Romney’s? Shouldn’t they be digging into Obama’s past–beyond what he has written about himself–with the same boundless enthusiasm as Mitt’s?
The first question I’d ask is, if you had great grades, why would you seal your records? So let’s assume Obama got poor grades. Why not release the records? He’s president of the free world, for gosh sakes. He’s commander-in-chief of the U.S. military. Who’d care about some poor grades from three decades ago, right? So then what’s the problem? Doesn’t that make the media suspicious? Something doesn’t add up.
Secondly, if he had poor grades at Occidental, how did he get admitted to an Ivy League university in the first place? And if his grades at Columbia were awful, how’d he ever get into Harvard Law School? So again those grades must have been great, right? So why spend millions to keep them sealed?
Third, how did Obama pay for all these fancy schools without coming from a wealthy background? If he had student loans or scholarships, would he not have to maintain good grades?
I can only think of one answer that would explain this mystery.
Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.
If you could unseal Obama’s Columbia University records I believe you’d find that:
A) He rarely ever attended class.
B) His grades were not those typical of what we understand it takes to get into Harvard Law School.
C) He attended Columbia as a foreign exchange student.
D) He paid little for either undergraduate college or Harvard Law School because of foreign aid and scholarships given to a poor foreign students like this kid Barry Soetoro from Indonesia.
If you think I’m “fishing” then prove me wrong. Open up your records Mr. President. What are you afraid of?
If it’s okay for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to go on a fishing expedition about Romney’s taxes (even though he knows absolutely nothing about them nor will release his own), then I think I can do the same thing. But as Obama’s Columbia Class of ’83 classmate, at least I have more standing to make educated guesses.
It’s time for Mitt to go on the attack and call Obama’s bluff.
Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee and the author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian.” Read more at his website: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
Understood but the thread article insinuates obama didn't attend Columbia.
Furthermore, Occidental, Columbia and Harvard are all private schools. I'm not sure why an official transcript would be expected to indicate if the student was an American citizen or foreign citizen.
My view is that Obama may have been born in Hawaii, but when his mother married an Indonesian , he adopted Barry and alienated him. But he was able to reacquire American citizenship because he was young and the state “clothed” him with enough official documents that he was able to pass while he was in Hawaii. Anyone who knows anything about state bureaucracies knows they are as sloppy as heck. THEN, when he was applying for Occidental, he put back on his indonesian identity and used it to get through school.
Root is going to have to carry the ball. If the Establishment had wanted to take out Obama, they would have done it back in 2008. But for some reason they let it pass, probably because he was this “clean, articulate” black person right out of central casting. The same thoughts probably inhibited the Clintons. Maybe that is why Bill was so furious when they played the race card on HIM, of all people. He may know the rest of the story, but it is not coming out soon.
His file may have already been purged.
“. . . the one thing he does better than the entire weenie crop of GOP politicians, is to play hardball politics in the most evil, demented way possible.”
The last Republican who played hardball politics was Richard M. Nixon. Since then, the Republicans have known their place.
The problem is what happens to a soul brave enough to bow the whistle.
The interesting thing from the interview was that Wayne got a phone call from a Breitbart reporter who was in Indonesia and claims he has documentary proof that Obama was an Indonesian citizen.
When Obama applied/registered for classes at Columbia he may have been using a different SSN than the one he is using today. Having multiple SSN’s is illegal.
Seems logical that it was another Mormon who knew something about Mitt’s taxes who blew the whistle. You’d think the Mormon mafia would take action against a fellow believer like Dingy Harry nailing a brother.
Stupid zero comment number 55467:
“Hey don’t call my bluff.”
Do comments get much more idiotic than that one?
Whatta tool.
Ping to read tomorrow......
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I predict that Root is going to get "THE Message" very soon -- if he hasn't already.
Either he will quickly fade from view -- or, if he persists, will do a "Breitbart" or "Foster"...
Obama has been groomed as a Manchurian Candidate by the Soviets and other Anti-American forces since a young age. All pertinent records have been purged, all damaging witnesses neutralized in one way or another.
That’s what isolated island states in the Pacific without extradition agreements with the USA are for.
You’ve obviously never heard of the Mountain Meadows Massacre or the Salamander Letter bombings.
I haven’t. And I certainly hope there’s no serious backstory to those oddly endearing titles.
Serious backstory?
That almost qualifies as classic British understatement.
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