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Obama at Columbia-- the unexceptional student no one remembers
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Posted on 06/09/2009 7:26:35 PM PDT by cycle of discernment

Obama transferred from Occidental College to Columbia University in 1981.

According to the New York Times, Obama "suggests in his book that his years in New York were a pivotal period: He ran three miles a day, buckled down to work and 'stopped getting high,' which he says he had started doing in high school.

Yet he declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."

Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told the newspaper in October 2007, "He doesn’t remember the names of a lot of people in his life."

Obama claimed to be a part of the Black Student Organization and anti-apartheid activities. But according to the New York Times, several well-known student leaders did not recall his involvement.

Fox News made contact with 400 of Obama's classmates. No one remembered him.

The Columbia University chapter in Obama's life remains blank, according to the New York Sun.

"The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago," the Sun reported in September 2008.

"The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public."

According to the New York Sun, a program from Columbia's 1983 commencement ceremony lists Obama as a graduate. University spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated with a major in political science but without honors. Nonetheless, he was later admitted to Harvard Law School.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; bho44; birthcertificate; certifigate; choomgang; columbiau; democrat; democrats; impeachobama; manchuriantotus; obama; thekenyan
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1 posted on 06/09/2009 7:26:35 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
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To: STARWISE; LucyT

Do we have this information?


2 posted on 06/09/2009 7:29:46 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: cycle of discernment

Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt told the newspaper in October 2007, “He doesn’t remember the names of a lot of people in his life.”

hmmmmmmmm wonder why?

weren’t any?
they were radicals, thus can’t mention them?
or he was too high to remember?

pick any one of the above.

he’s still not qualified to be Commander in Chief.


3 posted on 06/09/2009 7:29:53 PM PDT by machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
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To: cycle of discernment
Fox News made contact with 400 of Obama's classmates. No one remembered him.

Seriously, folks. How can this be? Was he actually a student there?

4 posted on 06/09/2009 7:32:36 PM PDT by Faith
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To: Faith

He was in a foreign country, being “groomed”.


5 posted on 06/09/2009 7:34:26 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: hoosiermama; Fred Nerks; null and void; pissant; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; BP2; MeekOneGOP; ...
Thanks hoosiermama.

Fox News made contact with 400 of Obama's classmates. No one remembered him.

6 posted on 06/09/2009 7:37:08 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: cycle of discernment

Yawnnnnnnnnn........


7 posted on 06/09/2009 7:37:46 PM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: Faith

Do you realize how utterly implausible that is? If you shared a class with someone who later became President, you’d darn well remember it.


8 posted on 06/09/2009 7:37:49 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Faith

sounds like “manufactured history”
cia?


9 posted on 06/09/2009 7:38:30 PM PDT by machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
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To: machogirl

I’m guessing all his buddies went back to the Middle East after finishing their studies...


10 posted on 06/09/2009 7:38:39 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: cycle of discernment

Barry talks in one of his books about his roommate at Occidental and then at Columbia. Refers to him as “Sadik”. By other accounts the guys name is Sohale Siddiqi. A Pakistani national who was a dope dealer at Occidental and at Columbia.


11 posted on 06/09/2009 7:39:10 PM PDT by jsh3180
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To: machogirl

Bammy’s false bravado seems like that of the habitual pot-head (like Algore). Obama admits to heavy drug use throughout high school and college. Delusions of grandeur apparently control the druggie brain and Zero is no exception.


12 posted on 06/09/2009 7:39:58 PM PDT by x_plus_one ("Salvation comes about though change in individual lives, not through the ending of unjust society")
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To: LibertyRocks

ha

from occidental, some of them (muslims) stayed here landing in Washington state (i believe) and i can’t remember if the other is in NY. and both haven’t really commented.

wonder why?


13 posted on 06/09/2009 7:40:14 PM PDT by machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
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To: machogirl
they were radicals, thus can’t mention them?

Great response...Nail head, meet hammer!

14 posted on 06/09/2009 7:40:21 PM PDT by IrishPennant (RLT = Radical Left Terrorism...feel it????)
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To: Faith

“Was he actually a student there?”

Good question. I’ve always had the feeling that obama is a fabricated candidate. I remember David Axelrod saying the Jimmy Smits character on West Wing was modeled after obama, but I think it was the other way around. I don’t see how someone can go through high school, college, and law school and be an activist, no less, and leave absolutely no trail.


15 posted on 06/09/2009 7:40:38 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: machogirl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI


16 posted on 06/09/2009 7:40:54 PM PDT by danamco
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To: rbg81

I do recall reading that there were people were students with obama, but they didn’t want to make themselves public because they didn’t want the media attention. Sounded kind of stupid to me


17 posted on 06/09/2009 7:41:04 PM PDT by mel
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To: mrmeangenes

What?


18 posted on 06/09/2009 7:41:12 PM PDT by IrishPennant (RLT = Radical Left Terrorism...feel it????)
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To: x_plus_one

janet nappy said here (in phx, while running for gov) that she “experimented with marijuana a couple times and didn’t inhale” (aka, clinton).


19 posted on 06/09/2009 7:41:51 PM PDT by machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
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To: hoosiermama

No, we do not. THe only plausible explanation is that Obama was given a racisl preference or admitted to Harvard through political connections he does not want anyone to know about, or both. This was in the early 1980s, the heyday of racial preferences, when there were two piles of applications. I recall feloow students scrubbing their family history so that they claim some minority status — the lucky ones found it. Obama;s admission to Harvard has always been very suspicious, and no credible explanation was ever given. It is more palatable to conceal the information and dismiss suspicions as the ranting of wingnuts than release it and show how he got in.

Students who transferred colleges halfway through and gaduated with less than honors do not get admitted into Harvard Law School unless something or someone was tipping the scales. THis guy is President and he still has not been vetted — we really do not know hte first thing about him.. Amazing.


20 posted on 06/09/2009 7:42:30 PM PDT by RecallMoran (Recall Brodhead)
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