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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

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To: cycle of discernment
The unattributed source for this article.

Obama has lived for almost 50 years without leaving any footprints -- none!  There is no Obama documentation -- no bona fides -- no paper trail -- nothing.

 Original, vault copy birth certificate -- Not released -- Lawyers fees -- greater than $1,000,000 -- birth certificate -- $15.
Certification of Live Birth -- Released -- Counterfeit
Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released Obama/Dunham divorce -- Released (by independent investigators)
Kindergarten records -- Records lost (this is a big one -- see here -- read two frames)
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro adoption records -- Not released

Fransiskus Assisi School  School application -- Released (by independent investigators)
Punahou School records -- Not released
Soetoro/Dunham divorce -- Released (by independent investigators)

Selective Service Registration -- Released -- Counterfeit
Occidental College records -- Not released
Passport -- Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama's terrorism and intelligence adviser.
Columbia College records -- Not released
Columbia thesis -- "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament" -- Not released
Harvard College records -- Not released
Harvard Law Review articles -- None

Illinois Bar Records -- Not released.
Baptism certificate -- None
Medical records -- Not released
Illinois State Senate records -- None
Illinois State Senate schedule -- Lost
Law practice client list -- Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None


The Illinois State Archives told Judicial Watch that they never received any request from Senator Obama to archive any records in his possession.  In 2007, Obama told Tim Russert that his records were "not kept."

And there's less on the web every day.  In time, the entire Obama body of knowledge will consist of 3 documents -- "Dreams From My Father" -- "The Audacity of Hope" -- and the latest -- "Change We Can Believe In" -- all written by Barack Hussein Obama or his "ghost-writers."


Just an accident?  I don't think so.

The Obama File


201 posted on 06/10/2009 4:02:00 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Maine Mariner

There wqas some Nurse from Buffalo<, NY who claimed she was there when he was born Check out the Buffalo News archives


202 posted on 06/10/2009 4:05:47 AM PDT by Mr. K (physically unabel to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Obama was using the name Barack Obama during his Columbia years.

Here’s more:

Wayne Allyn Root says, “I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! ... Nobody recalls him. I’m not exaggerating, I’m not kidding.

Questioner: Were you the exact same class?

Root: Class of ‘83 political science, pre-law Columbia University. You don’t get more exact than that. Never met him in my life, don’t know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, 20th reunion, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! Who was he, and five years ago, nobody even knew who he was... the guy who writes the class notes, who’s kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange? It’s very strange...

When asked about his undergraduate training at Columbia University, The New Times states that Obama “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.”

Many of his classmates don’t remember Obama. He’s not in the yearbook. Columbia couldn’t find a picture of him at school.

What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends. Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him. He had transferred from Occidental College in California after his sophomore year because, he told the Boston Globe in 1990, “I was concerned with urban issues and I wanted to be around more black folks in big cities.”


203 posted on 06/10/2009 4:05:59 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Rocky

Obama and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers were at college — within a quarter mile of each other — for two years in 1982 and 1983.

When Obama was at Columbia, Ayers was at Bank Street College (BSC), where he received an M.A. in Early Childhood Education — 371 yards down the street.

BSC has no student housing, everyone lives off Campus. Columbia DOES have housing and encourages students to live on campus. However, Fox News interviewed 400 former students from his graduating class and no-one remembers him!

Presumably Obama lived off campus also.

Obama and Ayers had mutual friends. One was Edward Said, the left-wing Columbia superstar was just recently out of hiding. It is inconceivable, given their concentric politics, that they did not know each other.

Obama won’t release his transcripts (actually he won’t reveal any documentation from his past). Was it because it would reveal his ties to Ayers, a class in common (BSC has collaborations with Columbia), or maybe a common street address?


204 posted on 06/10/2009 4:16:43 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: oblomov
McCain considered it his world-historical duty to lose to Obama. At least, that’s how it was explained to him the night before his “miraculous” comeback in the WV Primary.

A lot of FReepers predicted McCain would take a dive in his campaign.

When I think of the missed opportunities....

205 posted on 06/10/2009 4:18:40 AM PDT by investigateworld ( Abortion stops a beating heart.)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

Obama’s alma maters — from his high school to his graduate school — are planning to claim a small piece of the president-elect at gatherings throughout the inaugural week.

Punahou School alum Steve Case, founder of America Online, will host a brunch for about 250 people, Saint Chu said, many of whom will be making the trek from Hawaii.

Occidental College’s gathering on January 19th will host about 250 people, including alum and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll.

“The reaction has been terrific,” said Jim Jacobs, Occidental’s director of alumni relations, saying their 250 reservations are “more than we ever anticipated” for the free celebration.

More than 1,000 Harvard Law School grads have paid $100 per ticket to attend a Sunday, Jan. 18th brunch at the historic Willard Intercontinental Hotel, once a common place to spot President Abraham Lincoln. It will be hosted by the school’s dean and recently-tapped U.S. Solicitor General, Elena Kagan.

Only Columbia is not hosting a big party for their presidential grad.


206 posted on 06/10/2009 4:22:14 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: John Galt's cousin

THAT is an awesome screen name!


207 posted on 06/10/2009 4:34:05 AM PDT by RecallMoran (Recall Brodhead)
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To: Maine Mariner

Well, that is a little more of a stretch, considering it was over 46 years ago. Also, without a birth certificate, how would you even know you were at the right hospital?


208 posted on 06/10/2009 4:35:08 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Mr. K

Thank you for the heads up. I was not aware of this story.


209 posted on 06/10/2009 4:46:53 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: mojitojoe
Woo-woo !! I made the Wing Nut Diary Troll List !!!
210 posted on 06/10/2009 4:53:42 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Has the scent of the Kevin Kostner movie No Way Out. USN Lt. Commander aka Uri KGB mole.


211 posted on 06/10/2009 5:05:38 AM PDT by NYKbyD (I will Never Forgive, I will NeverForget)
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To: John Galt's cousin

The Germans who elected Hitler in 1933 knew more about him than we know about Oba Mao.


212 posted on 06/10/2009 5:07:19 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: mojitojoe; null and void; Beckwith; stockpirate; pissant; PhilDragoo; Candor7; MeekOneGOP; ...

Photoshop alert!

Once again, Magic Barry makes his appearance, once again,in the virtual world, but not the real deal.

Easy call on this one. All of the other men in the photo cast long shadows that are perpendicular to the person and run parallel with the steps.

ZERO, on the other hand, has short shadows that are at a 45 degree angle.

Also notice those two triangles on either side of his butt, that are what? The tails from his tux? Well, they are supposed to be the bottom of his suit jacket, but there's no shadows being cast from them, both are perfectly shaped triangles (no wrinkles at all), and they are almost in perfect alignment along the bottom; i.e., tyou could connect the two with a straight line.

Look at the sleeves of his jacket: they look like you could cut down trees with them.

LASTLY, and maybe more importantly, the JPG blocking artifacts are totally different from the other three guys. The blocking is a function of how the JPG image information is quantized. Not only are all of them perfect, 8 x 8 blocks, but each is of a different color, indicating that a higher quality JPG original of ZERO was used -- very unlike the other three suits where adjacent blocks of the same color are strung together in a series of long lines, which is what you expect to have after compressing the JPG image.

213 posted on 06/10/2009 5:16:16 AM PDT by Polarik (It's the forgery, Stupid!)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

In 1981, you would at least remember every biracial kid you ever saw because they were rare.


214 posted on 06/10/2009 5:24:52 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: cycle of discernment; All
Obama and the case of the missing 'thesis'
By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer
July 24, 2008

excerpt:

The hunt for Obama’s senior “thesis” began with a throwaway line in a newspaper article last October. The New York Times story, on Obama’s early New York years, mentioned in passing that the presidential contender had majored in political science at Columbia and had spent his time “writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament.”

Journalists began hounding Columbia University for copies of the musty document. Conservative bloggers began wondering if the young Obama had written a no-nukes screed that he might come to regret. And David Bossie, the former congressional investigator and “right-wing hit man,” as one newspaper described him, took out classified newspaper ads in Columbia University’s newspaper and the Chicago Tribune in March searching for the term paper.

Bossie came up dry, but said the effort was well worth it:

“A thesis entitled Soviet Nuclear Disarmament, written at the height of The Cold War in 1983, might shed some light upon what Barack Obama thought about our most pressing foreign policy issue for 40-plus years (U.S.-Soviet Relations),” he wrote in an e-mail to NBC News.

http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/24/1219454.aspx
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Here is the passage from the New York Times that the above article refers to:

"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 dismisses in one sentence his first community organizing job — work he went on to do in Chicago — though a former supervisor remembers him as 'a star performer.'"

[snip]

"he [Obama] 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.

'He doesn’t remember the names of a lot of people in his life,' said Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman."

Obama’s Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say
By JANNY SCOTT, October 30, 2007:
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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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: Institute For Policy Studies (IPS)

IPS’s [Institute For Policy Studies] Washington, DC headquarters quickly became a resource center for national reporters and a place for KGB agents from the nearby Soviet embassy to convene and strategize. Cora Weiss headed one of the IPS's most successful forays -- into Riverside Church in Manhattan. She was invited there 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. During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, which became home to the National Council of Churches, Weiss regularly received Russian KGB agents, Sandinista friends, and Cuban intelligence agents. Weiss became infamous for her role in the psychological warfare conducted against U.S. prisoners of war held in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War.

The Liberation News Service, which is a news source for hundreds of "alternative" publications nationwide (with antiwar, Marxist-oriented perspectives), was founded in 1967 with IPS assistance."

[lots more at link...]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991
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From the website of Riverside Church...

The Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive
New York, New York 10027
212-870-6700

The Riverside Church is located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side near Columbia University.

Photobucket

http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/about/?directions
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"She was invited there 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
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From the Columbia University website...

"Obama attended Columbia College from 1981 to 1983"

Source:
http://news.columbia.edu/home/1260
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From February 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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Bill Ayers' education:
1987 - Ed.D, Columbia University, Curriculum & Instruction
1987 - M.Ed, Teachers College, Columbia University, Early Childhood Education
1984 - M.Ed, Bank Street College, Early Childhood Education
1968 - B.A., University of Michigan, American Studies
http://education.uic.edu/directory/faculty_info.cfm?netid=bayers
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Bank Street College
Where We Are and How to Get Here:

Bank Street College is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 610 West 112th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive.

Bank Street College is located in a bustling family and university neighborhood four blocks from Columbia University
http://www.bankstreet.edu/aboutbsc/visiting.html
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Why Won’t Obama Talk About Columbia?
The years he won’t discuss may explain the Ayers tie he keeps lying about:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjY4YzdhMDBkZGQ3ZmU2MTUzYjdkMzc5ZjUzYmViZWM=

215 posted on 06/10/2009 5:25:55 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: PhilDragoo

Man, o man!!! You are a bleeping genius!! That is so great!!!


216 posted on 06/10/2009 5:28:51 AM PDT by MestaMachine (What goes up must come down...or not.)
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To: AppyPappy

At Columbia? I really doubt that. I briefly attended Columbia part-time in 1978. I don’t recall thinking the racial make-up was much different from the private school I’d graduated from, in which nearly all the “black” students were clearly “biracial”.


217 posted on 06/10/2009 5:30:47 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: machogirl

No. I downloaded it and blew it up. he is holding his shoe. having said that, my first thought was they are sitting awfully close on that couch. Guys just don’t do that normally.


218 posted on 06/10/2009 5:32:27 AM PDT by MestaMachine (What goes up must come down...or not.)
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To: Beckwith; freespirited
“I was concerned with urban issues and I wanted to be around more black folks in big cities.”

I think that's the key. He didn't go to Columbia to hang out with Columbia students. It sure seems like he doesn't want us to know who he WAS hanging out with, and those people are apparently cooperating in keeping info about his Columbia years under wraps. I suspect it's because they were radical left-wing political activists, many of whom have since outgrown their youthful naivete and now hold respectable jobs, and are no more eager to have their past radical activities publicized than President Obama is. I wouldn't be surprised if there are also a handful who've been "encouraged" to keep quiet -- that would probably be ones who failed to move on to better things, and are thus easily hushed by helping them get jobs or apartments. There's probably at least one seriously unsavory person in the group he spent most of his time with (possibly one with whom he was romantically involved), and that would be the root of the desire to keep this period of his life under wraps.

219 posted on 06/10/2009 5:40:27 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: rbg81
If you shared a class with someone who later became President, you’d darn well remember it.

Particularly since he was in a very small minority at that time. He was probably "underground" with the Ayers crowd.

220 posted on 06/10/2009 5:45:15 AM PDT by jersey117
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