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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
His uncle lived in Chicago.
Is this legit?
Smoking gun finally found?
APFN – April 1, 2009
In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship. This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking.
The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama’s legitimacy and qualification to serve as president. When reached for comment in London, where he has been in meetings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Obama smiled but refused comment on the issue. Meanwhile, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs scoffed at the report stating that this was obviously another attempt by a right-wing conservative group to discredit the president and undermine the administration’s efforts to move the country in a new direction.
Britain’s Daily Mail has also carried the story in a front-page article titled, “Obama Eligibility Questioned”, leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama’s first official visit to the U.K.
In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama’s legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey. This lawsuit claims Obama’s dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio’s case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama’s citizenship or qualification to serve as president.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama’s campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter.
Fred...book marking for tomorrow....I perused quickly but looks like stuff I want to look at...the whole “am I black or am i white thing”.
Probably never was there, and got an affirmative action degree in the mail.
where is barry’s hand in that picture? the left hand.
just curious
Whether or not he was in a foreign country, I have no doubt that he was being groomed during this time. I remember reading during the campaign last year that Bill Ayres was living a few blocks from Columbia University while Obama was in school there.
Remember that while Obama was at Columbia, William Ayers was living 4 blocks away from Columbia, working on a Masters at nearby Bank Street College (MA, 1984). Who were their roomates? Each other? We know from his books, Obama had a fascination with SDS and the Weathermen.
Both Ayers and Obama sat in on Middle East Studies Chairman Edward Said’s lectures and were impressed with him.
According to Cashill (AmericanThinker.com article) ,their books have remarkable descriptive overlap in this period.
APRIL FOOLS JOKE that keep reappearing!
When does the Tipping Point arrive?
Great thread tonight FRiends...I'm out but pray you guys keep going so I can read the great follow ups tomorrow.
Pray for our country...It was built by God and with his blessing,l we shall save it (He may actually call upon us at the "Tipping Point", so be prepared!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/from-barry-to-barack-occi_n_156418.html
What do they mean by this????????
Anyway, the secondary appeal of the video are these pictures of Obama that Moore took, cold chillin’ at college:
Here’s the President-Elect, during a period of time when he was known as “Kanye Blagojevich Obama.” [Not pictured: the Weather Underground.]
how did they pay for that apartment?
no student loans back then.
Like so much of Obama's life!
HIM again
Confirmed April fools joke.
Holdin’ his shoe. I wondered about that muhself.
“Kanye Blagojevich Obama.”
Kanye West - cRap artist and big Obama supporter
Pay-to-Play Blagojevich
Probably a nickname they gave him during the campaign.
Aha 4/1- Thanks
Check this article out. Interesting items, plus reporting info that’s long been debunked.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081109/NEWS01/811090361/-1/specialobama08
Graphics intense but a eye opening read - funny thing is the first commentary on the story is for a obamanotqualified.com
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