Mystery: What exactly did Obama study or do at Occidental and what were his grades? Another Occidental mystery set: did he receive aid as a "Foreign Student?" Who's "Chandoo?" FYI: That's the Paki who supported the Obama lifestyle at the time. Some people at the time were under the impression that they were a "gay couple."
No Mystery:After two years at Occidental he entered the Columbia School of General Studies. Ayers had a connection through his sister-in-law to Columbia UNIVERSITY, as did Geithner, etc. etc. Obviously, his pals set this up.
No Mystery:The School of General Studies is pretty much a walk-in -and-pay-your-money-for-the-course-you-want deal. If you later want to convert those courses to a degree program, Columbia is only too happy to do that for you.
Listen up: Columbia is a for-real Ivy League School. However the Ivy-Covered part is Columbia College, reserved for smart high-SAT students from top high schools and preps, or good prep football players and oarsmen. The rest of the joint is pretty much like any other giant university, all of which have schools of General Studies. Like the others, Columbia's is staffed by adjunct academic riff-raff, subway commies from NYC who give weird seminars in the middle of the night or on weekends. In general, the General Studies setup resembles Seinfeld outakes. The chances of a for-real Columbia College student meeting a General Studies oddball, much less pal-ing around with one are ... well ... nil.
Mystery: What exactly did Obama study or do at Columbia and what were his grades? Who paid for it? Who paid for the trip to Pakistan?
Real Big Mystery: Why is The Good Reverend Manning mixing good apples with bad oranges? Any literate 10-year old from the streets of NY knows all of the Columbia factoids. If you can remember back that far, even Bill Clinton's handlers tried to float a mysterious CIA connection to explain his missing wanderjahr behind the Iron Curtain.
By setting up easily disproven propositions which mix mighty little fact with far-fetched innuendo, and in all the wrong places, The Good Reverend Manning is copying the marketing model of an attractive Russian Lady Dentist of whom I know.
Why?
“Additionally, highly visible former Columbia College students in recent years include President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_College,_Columbia_University
You stopped your Mystery/No Mystery trail before getting to Hahvahd Law Skool. No speculations on how a flaky “subway-Columbia student” could get into HLS?