Are they referring to Columbia College which ithe very small four year liberal arts college of Columbia University, or the Columbia U. School of General Studies which is enormous, open to almost everyone with a HS diploma?
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This is pretty funny, because last week, I posted the following as my Facebook status:
I have an acquaintance who works at Harvard Law School in the admissions office that told me something very interesting. She recently had occasion to review Barack Obama’s admission records to Harvard Law. She found that in his undergraduate work, he was a low C average student at Columbia who was admitted to Harvard only to fill an affirmative action quota slot. He was admitted as an international student with Indonesian citizenship. On his intake documents he listed his religion as Muslim. He needs to answer these allegations. I hope he will release his school records to clear up any misinformation that may be out there.
Here’s a link that works:
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama’s-college-classmate-the-obama-scandal-is-at-columbia/
I was at Columbia at the same time as Obama. I started there in January 1982, but was on the campus a lot visiting my girlfriend starting in September of 1981. I graduated in ‘86, so I was there at least a year and a half that Obama was supposedly there. Now the fact that I don’t remember him may not mean anything. The campus is fairly large in terms of population, different dining halls, different dorms and off-campus housing, different hangouts, etc. So, someone living in an off-campus apartment (as some of the photos with his paki boyfriend suggest), eating off campus, avoiding big parties, popular bars or clubs and staying low-key in classes, could stay pretty anonymous.
None of this changes the fact that Root brings up about how weird it is to block release of these records. After all, his “phenom” rep was built on the Ivy League image, with Harvard Law and Harvard Law Review President really topping off his resume.
The foreign student theory fits pretty well, although it would not surprise me one bit if he was just ashamed of lousy grades, even three decades later. That still leaves the question: how does one get into Harvard Law on crappy grades? Even with affirmative action, it is very tough. Still, I remember well how intense the drive for “diversity” was getting at that time, so someone with mixed-race parentage, overseas experience and other exotica would go a long way.
What Romney could do is ask the major networks for 15 minutes of prime airtime announcing his decision on releasing his taxes. The networks would say, why not just go ahead and do it, but Romney could say the he would not do it unless he could explain his reasons to the American public. Then every time the reporters ask him about his taxes, he would say that has nothing to say unless he has the air time. Eventually the networks would relent, and then Romney would say that he would release the tax records if 0bama releases his medical and college records. He could also specify exactly how they would be released; use of a third party and independent auditing firm to ensure that 0bama did not cheat. He could also demand more debates where the candidates would directly ask each other questions.
Since this guy is an odds maker I’ll wager that Columbia will doctor all the records, if they haven’t already. And my odds are high enough to get me thrown out of the casino.
The reverend Manning of Harlem made these charges against Obama a couple of year ago. See links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLx0Kb3MB8c
http://www.sonorannews.com/archives/2010/100519/ftpgObamaTrial.html
When I read that no one at Columbia remembered Obama, my first thought was: I resemble that. Very few of my undergrad university contemporaries would remember me. I was not a joiner. And while there were probably students on campus who "thought they knew most everyone" in my class, those were exactly the students I tried hardest to avoid.
The notion that Romney should swap his tax returns for Obama's Columbia transcript assumes that the leftist staff at Columbia would not release a doctored transcript to serve their messiah. They don't deserve that much trust. Even if the correct transcript was released, how would we know how many of Obama's leftist professors had adjusted his grades upward simply because of his race?
So what Colombia Cartel does he *really* belong to?
Not only should issue this tit for tat challenge of releasing his tax returns upon Obama unsealing his Columbia records, he should very publicly release his actual birth certificate so as to prove his birth in the USA is without question.
What a strange way to introduce yourself, especially since it looks like some cheesy ripoff of the Walk of Fame that just about anyone could get on if they're sufficiently vain and pay the required $20,000.
" Obama attended Columbia College from 1981 to 1983, after transferring in his junior year from Occidental College"
Columbia College is a separate division of Columbia University. It's essentially an alternative school and it's not even on the same campus.