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 doesnt 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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Thanks for the ping mojitojoe. Interesting photos I hadn’t seen before!
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I guess!
I thought you liked Indiana Jones, must be mistaken. I enjoyed the movies.
I'm confused, please explain???
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Oh yeah!
INDY flicks!
Great stuff!
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algore BS alert:
It was only 67°F today - in Knoxville TN - June 10 2009
Yep. We are way off topic on an interesting thread.
I keep tellin y’all see the Dr.Who 2005 episode where the aliens take over London..If you look closely at al-potus and al-flotus, you will see zippers under their hairlines...Listen closely...you will hear ZZZZIPPPPPPPPPP as they let their true slimy selves out for a breather at night. In the meantime they are very uncomfortable stuffed into their “human” vinyl suits.
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OK - went off-topic
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Hussy JR :
You cannot have your home at 72F !!!
But I demand my Oval Office be set at 78°F !!
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Maybe you meant 68*, but I would freeze, lol.
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No - Obama has his office set at a balmy 78°F in cold waeather - like Hawaai
But not for you!
He will appoint a Therostat Czar!
In fact Obama and the libs are attwempting to force electric coimpanies to lie and intimidate US citizens to allow them to install new computer monitored thrmostats that only let you use more heat or AC after peak daytime business hours - I got a BS letter from DC telling me I would “help America” if I signed up - and “save on my power bills”
The elderly and disabled will be easily conned into doing this
And freeze or sweat
But Obama has to have 78°F all the time
While Slick Willie was President - one summer - hundreds of Chicago residents died from the heat
You never saw in on network TV news or in the NYT or other print media
Clinton & algore lied - hundreds died!
Lol, since it’s summertime I was thinking in terms of air conditioning, not heat. It’s already 96* here in Texas.
[hundreds of Chicago residents died from the heat]
I knew that but thought they didn’t have air conditioning, just like all the ones in Paris who died from the heat.
Yeah, he’s in an awful lot of photos to just be some random guy I’d think.
He/She probably thought he looked cool stretched back like that like when we take pictures of family and friends doing silly or unusual things.
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Yup
Paris
Chicago - mostly elderly I guess - no AC or brownouts
Water in a bathtub might help
Like WTC-#1 in 1993 - Clinton ignored the Chicago heatwave deaths
In the early 20 century and in the 19th century in Chigago I guess people had more brains
This is unrelated to the thread topic, but...
Thank you so much for writing "setting foot" instead of "stepping foot." It warms my heart. I love good writing.
A Strunk and White fan, eh?
Thanks! I was going to write “shagged his butt”, but I subsequently thought better of it!
At least where I went to college, a yearbook photo was strongly encouraged, but not mandatory (as it seems to be in grade school and high school). I know a number of people who did not pose for a yearbook photo.
A yearbook photo is a quick, easy, cheap way to verify that someone attended a college. I wouldn't rule out attendance/matriculation if the photo wasn't there: one other option is to consult a degree verification service, and you will have to pay for that.
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