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Obama did not attend "Columbia College." He attended Columbia University's "School of General Studies." This is an alternative program run by the University and has evening seminars" and "special programs", intended for part-time, or working students. It's OK, but it ain't "Columbia College." Pretty much "walk-in" admission.

Hardly a soul in Columbia College Class of '84 even knew Obama. IMHO, the "thesis" about "Nuclear Disarmament" is disinformation. What Obama was really into at Occidental and at Columbia was "Black Power" studies. Whether or not Obama knew Ayers in NYC is a good question. They ran in the same circles. Start with, "Mr. POTUS, when did you meet Bill Ayers?" Betcha the FBI knows.

Also note that Bernadine Dohrn's sister was a big gun at Columbia in those days, smoothing the way for Obama and Ayers. There is also a mystery surrounding his acceptance at Harvard Law School. Rumor has it that his academic performance was not very good and that the LSAT was "waived" for him. He was Law Review at Harvard, but there is also some controversial discussion surrounding that, as well.

Obama has successfully stonewalled most inquiries about his life, pre-Chicago and Illinois Legislature. All he wants us to know is in "Dreams of My Father." That book, literary analysts claim, was possibly ghost-written by Bill Ayers. Its style, vocabulary, sentence structure, philosophy and story line are eerily similar to Ayers' other works.

The quoted position on defense is very carefully worded and fully worthy of whoever fills this man's teleprompters for public appearances. It is a standard Democrat position, <>

IMHO, the "thesis" about "Nuclear Disarmament" is disinformation. What Obama was really into at Occidental and at Columbia was "Black Power" studies.

The New York Times reported as a 'throwaway' comment that he wrote his "thesis"/term paper on Soviet nuclear disarmament.

"He barely mentions Columbia, training ground for the elite, where he transferred in his junior year, majoring in political science and international relations and writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament." [he graduated in 83]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html?ex=1351396800&en=631bf83f428647f9&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
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"She was invited there [Riverside Church, near Columbia University] in 1978 by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin to run the church's Disarmament Program, which sought to consolidate Soviet nuclear superiority in Europe -- in the name of 'peace.'

In 1982 Weiss helped organize the largest pro-disarmament demonstration ever held. Staged in New York City, the rally was attended by a coalition of communist organizations."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991

IMHO, the "thesis" about "Nuclear Disarmament" is disinformation. What Obama was really into at Occidental and at Columbia was "Black Power" studies.

What do you think the "Black Power" movement is? It's part of the "Black Liberation" movement.

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808
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For all you'll ever need or want to know about
Wright's Marxist "Black Liberation Theology",
see my FR Home page (Section 4):
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

That book, literary analysts claim, was possibly ghost-written by Bill Ayers. Its style, vocabulary, sentence structure, philosophy and story line are eerily similar to Ayers' other works.

AND completely different than his other, more recent, book.

“Obama did not attend “Columbia College.” He attended Columbia University’s “School of General Studies.” This is an alternative program run by the University and has evening seminars” and “special programs”, intended for part-time, or working students. It’s OK, but it ain’t “Columbia College.” Pretty much “walk-in” admission.”

I am pretty sure that you just made this up. There is no Columbia College in NYC, and Columbia University is not an alternative program with walk-in admission. I will never understand why FR posters make things up and post them. That is what the libs do, not conservatives. Please cite a source for your information.

Your post was worth reading this morning, unlike my labored nothing on this topic, and I am going to watch for your name, as probably others already do. You sound rational and informative.

Obama did not attend "Columbia College." He attended Columbia University's "School of General Studies." This is an alternative program run by the University and has evening seminars" and "special programs", intended for part-time, or working students. It's OK, but it ain't "Columbia College."

From the Columbia University website:

"Obama attended Columbia College from 1981 to 1983"

http://news.columbia.edu/home/1260

You may well be correct, however.

That’s an interesting point... looking at the website for Columbia GS, it says: “GS undergraduates are fully mainstreamed into the Columbia undergraduate program. They take the same courses, with the same faculty, and earn the same degree as all other Columbia undergraduates.”

This sounds like a way to back-door in favored students — but it doesn’t really explain why no one else with a politics/foreign policy major from that time remembers Barry. He theoretically should have been taking the same classes for those two years.

Frankly, Barry probably earned his diploma by running errands in Pakistan for Columbia professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who also happened to chair Jimmy Carter’s National Security Council. That would explain why he wasn’t around campus very often.

BTW, Zbig’s “special assistant” around that time was none other than Robert Gates, who is now Barry’s Defense Secretary.