Obama has degrees, but he is not educated.
There is a difference. Listen to Obama over
time, and it is obvious that he doesn't know or
understand history, doesn't have a junior high level
grasp of science, and has an understanding of human
psychology most kindly described as wishful
thinking.
This page is organized in chronological order .
. .
Noelani
Elementary
Obama
began his education in Hawaii's public schools. He was enrolled in
Ms. Sakai’s kindergarten class at Noelani Elementary School in 1967.
He was only there a couple or three months before he was off to
Indonesia.
click image for large photo
The first little boy in the third row, left is "Barry Obama."
Obama’s sister Maya Soetoro-Ng confirms that the boy is Obama.
The two white girls in the same row are probably the
Nordyke twins. They were not identical twins, but they did
have the same smile. They were born the same time as Obama. I
still want to know what happened to their birth announcement.
Twins, being born to a prominent physician is news. More
specifically, I want to know what happened to the space their birth
announcement was in.
Or am I expected to believe that Vital
Statistics included Obama's name on their announcement list, and forgot
the Nordyke Twins?
Born within hours of Obama according to
Eleanor Nordyke, their names should be here:
Birth Announcement
here -- expand to
regular size to read.
The Nordyke twin girls were born the next day(early evening 6 pmish) and the only
reason I can see for their names not appearing in the Vital Stats birth
announcements was that an entire story was devoted to them considering
their father’s position as a doctor. I never did find out how many
beds were available at the Kapiolani Maternity Home at the time nor did
I find out exactly what Doctor Nordyke’s position (he was an internist
wasn’t he?) was at the time or what residents worked at the hospital at
the time.
Here's a surprise! Hawaii's Department of Education has been unable to find his
Kindergarten records.
Noelani Mystery
Obama's
Noelani Elementary School Kindergarten
records, oddly missing from
the State of Hawaii Department of Education -- just one more
coincidence in a series of "coincidences."
Kelli Abe
Trifonovitch writes, "...the Department of Education has been unable to
find his records."
Although Obama has had
a first-class education that spanned 25 years, there is only a single
document that has ever been released, the application for entrance to
the Franciscus Assisi Primary School (next
item) -- and that document was discovered by independent investigators.
This is an important feature because Kindergarten records for
original school entry would have contained the following:
1.
Obama's REAL Birth Certificate.
2. An application with the
following:
• His Legal name.
• Parents or Legal Guardians’ names.
• Date of Birth
• Place of Birth
• Vaccination Records (revealing a timeline to the place and DOB.)
It also is important for two additional reasons:
A. The Department of Education does not "lose" the records of one
particular student. (So, who paid whom what sum to make this record
disappear?)
B. There would have been NO shameful low-test scores,
NO embarrassing Equal Opportunity advancements, and NO trails of
fraudulent funding to hide that could possibly "excuse" the quashing of
public school Kindergarten entry records. For the rest of his life he
attended very expensive private schools and has had his records legally
sealed to deny the public his true life story.
This is
different. Hawaii should be able to verify he attended their school
since he is featured in class photographs. State and federal tax
dollars paid for his initial year of education. Why is there no
documentation?
This is the beginning of an intentionally erased
life of a fraud and conman and it reeks of complicity by officials
within the State of Hawaii’s Dept. of Health and Dept. of Education.
Obama joked during the primary campaign that his opponent (Hillary)
was even digging into his Kindergarten records. He knows what they
would contain and why they must be kept unavailable.
Did Obama Flunk Kindergarten?
Obama Flunked Kindergarten (04:33)
Evidence from both Hawaii
and Indonesia shows that Barry had to repeat kindergarten, and was just
pushed along with the children his own age each time he returned to
Hawaii.
The "An American Expat in
Southeast Asia" blog reports that Obama's
Indonesian schooling began when he was
entered into the Roman Catholic, Franciscus Assisi Primary School, in
Jakarta, Indonesia, on January 1, 1968 and sat in class 1B. His
teacher has been identified as Fermina Katarina Sinaga (translation,
next item).
He was
registered under the name of Barry Soetoro, serial number 203.
The school registration document
identifies Barry Soetoro as an Indonesian citizen and his
religion was identified as Islam.
This registration
document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiscus Assisi
school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama
under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his
step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a
Indonesian citizen, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his
Muslim step-father listed the boy's religion as Islam.
Click for larger image
Translation of above document:
The Obama Campaign claims that the "Muslim" entry references the
religion of the father, which is absurd. Every other entry on the
document relates to Obama. The attributes on the document describe
Obama, the child, not Lolo, the stepfather.
Born on August 4, 1961, Obama would have been 7 years and 5 months old. That's late to start school. Obama will
always be 2 years older than his classmates.
Obama may have started Kindergarten in Hawaii but was whisked off to
Indonesia as a result of his mother's second marriage. There are 5
missing years in Anna's CV between Obama Sr. abandoning the family and
her emigration to Indonesia with Lolo.
Obama then entered the Besuki
Primary School, a state school. He was enrolled as Indonesian
citizen,
Barry
Soetoro, Muslim. He would attend Besuki for two years.
Iis Darmawan,
63, Obama's teacher, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and curly
haired child who quickly picked up the local language and had sharp math
skills. "He wrote an essay titled, 'I
Want To Become President,'" the teacher said. Here
are Barry's
school records:
His third grade teacher, Fermina Katarina Sinaga, now 67, asked her
class to write an essay titled "My dream: What I want to be in the
future."
Obama wrote "I want to be a President,"
she said.
Quranic
Studies
All Indonesian students
are required to study religion at school and a young Barry Soetoro,
being registered as a Muslim, would have been
required to study Islam daily in school.
He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his
prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the
laws of Islam.
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying
the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."
"In the Muslim school, the
teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies."
According to
Tine Hahiyary,
one of Obama's teachers and the
principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the
Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. His
teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur
Regency.
"I remembered that he had studied 'mengaji' (recitation of the Quran)"
Tine said.
Our
guy in Jakarta writes: "The actual usage of the word 'mengaji' in
Indonesian and Malaysian societies means the study of learning to recite
the Quran in the Arabic language rather than the native tongue. "Mengagi"
is a word and a term that is accorded the highest value and status in
the mindset of fundamentalist societies here in Southeast Asia. To
put it quite simply, 'mengaji classes' are not something that a non
practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever send their
child to. To put this in a Christian context, this is something
above and beyond simply enrolling your child in Sunday school classes."
"The fact that Obama had attended mengaji classes is well known in
Indonesia and has left many there wondering just when Obama is going to
come out of the closet." As Plato said, the images and
stories we feed our children affect them for life.
"As I've stated before, the evidence seems to quite clearly show that
both Ann Dunham and her husband Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo were in fact
devout Muslims themselves and they raised their son as such."
Obama's half-sister, Maya, recalled that the family attended the mosque
"for big communal events," and "Obama occasionally followed his
stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers."
On January 24, 2007, the Obama campaign released the following
statement, "To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was
not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United
Church of Christ in Chicago.
Then, on March 14th, 2007, the Obama Campaign
told the LA Times he wasn’t a "practicing Muslim."
But his official
website says: "Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a
Committed Christian" (dated: 11/12/2007, and still up as of
5/5/2008)
This is the basic problem with Obama -- his dissimulation
-- some would call it outright lying -- but read what his classmates
say:
Mates
In 2007, classmate
Rony Amiris
described young Barry as enjoying
football and playing marbles and of being a very devout Muslim. Amir said,
"Barry was previously quite religious in Islam."
"We previously often asked him to the prayer room close to the house.
If he was wearing a sarong he looked funny," said Rony.
Amiris now the manager of the Bank Mandiri, Jakarta,
recently said, "Barry was previously quite
religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a
Muslim economist from Kenya. Before marrying Ann Dunham, Hussein
Obama was married to a woman from Kenya who had seven children.
All the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims"
Rony extrapolates further, that Obama at one point had to change his
religion if he ever intended later to run for the office of President of
the United States because America would never elect a Muslim to the be
President of the United States.
Also in 2007, Emirsyah
Satar, CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was
quoted as saying, "He (Obama) was often in the
prayer room wearing a 'sarong', at that time."
"He was quite religious in Islam but only after marrying Michelle, he
changed his religion."
The above
item is as I posted it in the summer of 2008. In February, 2010,
Obama's life story took another mysterious twist. Although every
single account of Obama's life puts him in Indonesia in 1969, the above
photo was taken in Hawaii -- while Obama was in the 3rd grade!
In late 1971, Anna
took Obama to live with
her parents, the Dunhams, in Honolulu. Anna and Obama's half-sister, Maya,
returned to
Indonesia. Madelyn Dunham’s co-workers did
not know she was a grandmother until Barry showed up there in the
70’s.
The Dunhams enrolled
"Barry Obama" in the prestigious
Punahou School,
starting in the fifth grade. He
attended Punahou on a scholarship, through the
generosity of many donors, and the influence of Stanley Armour's
boss, who was a Punahou alum. Obama walked the five blocks
from his grandmother's apartment on Beretania to the school.
With more than 3,000 students, Punahou is the largest private school in
the country, and it sits on a lush, sprawling campus in Honolulu.
The school is elite and wealthy.
"Gramps" was the driving force behind Barry being
accepted at Punahou and he took Barry to Punahou for the entrance exams
in 1971 and he also accompanied Barry to Punahou on his first day of
classes in 1972.
Barry made friends quickly
and
told his classmates that his father was an African prince, the
leader of a proud and successful people.
Obama's classmate, friend
and
drug-dealing partner, Keith "Ray" Kakugawa,
drove around in a VW bus nicknamed the "Choomwagon." He
said, "Barry's biggest struggles then were missing his parents.
His biggest struggles were his feelings of abandonment. Ray would later
be killed
with a ball-peen hammer by a scorned gay lover.
Obama would write, "I didn't feel [her absence] as a deprivation, but
when I think about the fact that I was separated from her, I suspect it
had more of an impact than I know."
While at Punahou School, Obama turns into a disenchanted teenage rebel,
experimenting with cocaine and
marijuana. Obama admits in "Dreams" that during high school he
frequently smoked marijuana, drank alcohol, even used cocaine
occasionally.
In his book, Obama
recalls that he had "been headed" to
the status of "junkie" or "pothead", which he describes as "the final,
fatal role of the young would-be black man". He recalls smoking
"reefer" in the backs of his friends' vans, dorm rooms and "on the beach
with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school."
Obama,
told a group of students in
New Hampshire that his drug use had caused him to "waste a lot of
time" during his high school years.
Bryon Leong, a former classmate,
remembers,
"He was known as a partier, as a guy looking for a good time, but not
much more," Mr Leong said. "There was pot in Hawaii in the 1970s,
but it wasn't a big deal."
"It wasn't like guys were smoking dope on campus and coming to school
high," said Eric Kusunoki, 57, Obama's teacher from age 15 to 18.
"If they did, it would have been pretty obvious. If he did dabble
with drugs or alcohol, I didn't see it."
Other schoolmates also remember his time at school rather differently.
He was a spoiled high-achiever, they recall.
One of his former classmates, Alan Lum, said: "Hawaii is such a melting
pot that it didn't occur to me when we were growing up that he might
have problems about being one of the few African-Americans at the
school. Us kids didn't see color. He was easy-going and well-liked."
1972
"He was a basketball player and always had a ball in his hand
wherever he was," Wysard recalled.
At school, Obama was surrounded by the
island's richest and most accomplished students. America Online
founder Steve Case, actress Kelly Preston and former Dallas Cowboys
lineman Mark Tuinei, who died in 1999, attended the school around that
time. Pro golf sensation Michelle Wie, 17, is a student there now
(2006).
While a student in the late 1970s, Barack Obama carved his name in the
pavement outside the cafeteria of Punahou School.
Kinda interesting, eh, King Obama?
And, did you know Punahou School,
has a statue of their most PRIZED
student bronzed in a court yard on the school campus? And who is
this "pillar of academic and character success"? Why, it's Ho Chi
Minh.
In his 1979 yearbook pictures, the B-minus student wears a 1970s-style wide-collared shirt
and sports jacket, his hair in a neatly trimmed afro that covers the
tops of his ears.
He added a photo of himself playing basketball, and a shot entitled
"Still Life" that includes numerous items. Among them are a
trophy, telephone, turntable and beer bottle.
A package of "Zig-Zag"
rolling papers and a matchbook are prominently displayed in front, and
in a brief caption he thanked the "Choom Gang" and others "for all the
good times."
The "Choom Gang" is a
reference to "chooming," the Hawaiian slang for smoking marijuana.
A Basketball Jones
This
file photo provided by The Oahuan, the yearbook of Punahou
School, shows Barack Obama posing with his 1979 state basketball
championship team for Punahou School.
Identified as Barry Obama, he is in the back row, last player on the
right. Others identified in the yearbook are:
front row: Greg
Ramos, manager; Chris McLachlin, head coach; Dan Moore, manager.
Second row: Matt Hiu, Alan Lum, Tom Topolinski, Darin Mauerer, Dan
Hale, John Kamana.
Third row: Darryl Gabriel, Boy Eldredge, Greg
Orme, Larry Tavares, Jason Oshima.
Hoop Dreams From Obama’s Mythology
Paul Mirengoff
says: I don’t attach any significance to Barack (or Barry) Obama’s
high school basketball career. However, several items in David
Maraniss’s account of that career are interesting.
First,
although Obama attributed his lack of playing time to not "play[ing]
like white boys do," there appears to be no merit to his complaint.
The notion that [Obama] was hampered in his
progress because his style was more playground-oriented, that he
played "black" and the coach coached "white," distorts the dynamics
of his own game, the performance of the other players and the
coaching philosophy of [Chris] McLachlin. The reality was that
Barry, as skilled and intelligent a player as he was, could not
stand out in this group. He had good court sense and an ability to
slash to the basket, but was an unreliable outside shooter and not
much of a jumper, contradicting the stereotype of "black" ball.
Decades later, a story emerged that his nickname was Barry
O’Bomber, playing off his last name and a propensity to fire away
from long range, but few team members recalled that nickname and
said the real gunner was Darin Maurer, who was better than Obama but
barely got more playing time. Maurer never started at Punahou but
went on to play Division I basketball at Stanford as a walk-on.
Maurer was . . . a caucasian; race had nothing to do with it. . . .
"He loved basketball so much, I think a lot of things have been
blown out of proportion," said Lum [a high school teammate].
"Anybody wants to play. His style of play was flashy, but it was
okay. McLachlin didn’t really put a damper on it. If you did a
behind-the-back pass, McLachlin would frown on that, but when it
came down to playing time, he [Barry] wasn’t one of the five best."
In fact, Lum and other teammates pointed out, Barry was only
occasionally considered one of the top eight, the number of players
McLachlin usually used in his rotation, following the substitution
pattern of John Wooden, the brilliant coach at UCLA.
Second, after his team won the state championship, Obama, who
had played only after the team took a massive lead, turned into a quote
machine for a reporter from the school newspaper:
Barry wanted to be part of history. He wanted
recognition. He wanted to be recorded in this glorious moment. He
had seemed so cool and laid back -- never panicked, never fazed --
but now his burning will was on rare display. "One thing that stuck
in my mind was the extent to which Barry. . .was in my face giving
me the equivalent of sound bites, giving quotes left and right,"
Egami [sportswriter for the school paper] recalled decades later.
"He made sure he got something he said in the paper. Such good
stuff, I couldn’t leave it out, though kind of schmaltzy. That night
I knew there was a side to him that was scary. This guy is
ambitious. He wanted the quote, and he got it."
Third, Obama’s account of his high school basketball days in
Dreams From My Father includes false information (is based on
"composites," I mean):
In one of the scenes with Keith Kakugawa, the
character he called Ray in his memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama
broached the subject of basketball style, complaining that he did
not get the breaks of other players on the team because "they play
like white boys do" and that was the style preferred by the coach.
Since Kakugawa was two years ahead of Barry, if this conversation
took place he would have had to have been a sophomore, a fact that
raises two contradictions. First, as a sophomore he was a long ways
from making Varsity AA, and second, the head coach he was
complaining about, Chris McLachlin, was on temporary leave during
Obama’s sophomore year and did not return until the following
season, when Kakugawa was gone.
In other words, Obama wrote an account of a conversation with
Kakugawa that didn’t happen, in which he supposedly raised a complaint
of race-based bias that didn’t exist.
What a guy.
As I
said, I don’t care about Obama’s basketball career. But it would have
been nice if, years later when he wrote his autobiography, he hadn’t
misleadingly twisted that career to conform to a hack racial paradigm.
Magazine
Barack Obama, then known as "Barry," sits with the Ka Wai Ola
literary magazine staff in the 1979 Punahou School yearbook. (NY Times
account
here)
Early Obama Poem Shows Davis' Hand
This is excerpted from
a Jack Cashill piece, about an unnamed poem, that Cashill calls
"Forgotten." It was unearthed for a lengthy March 2008 article in Vanity
Fair by the magazine's national editor Todd Purdum. It reads as follows:
I saw an old, forgotten man On an old,
forgotten road. Staggering and numb under the glare of the
Spotlight. His eyes, so dull and grey, Slide from right to left,
to right, Looking for his life, misplaced in a Shallow, muddy
gutter long ago. I am found, instead. Seeking a hiding place,
the night seals us together. A transient spark lights his face,
and in my honor, He pulls out forgotten dignity from under his
flaking coat, And walks a straight line along the crooked world.
When Purdum mentioned the poem, which was published
in 1978 or 1979 in Obama's high school literary magazine, to Obama in
2008, he told Purdum he had no memory of it. The question that
must be asked, however, is the one that Obama himself poses, did he
actually write it?
As to the content of the poem, Obama told
Purdum, "it sounds in spirit that it's talking a little bit about my
grandfather." Note that the subject of this sentence is "it" not
the expected "I." As he does even in the forward of his acclaimed
1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama distances himself from his
presumed composition.
The "grandfather" Obama refers to here, of
course, is his mother's father, Stanley Dunham, "Gramps," the Willy
Loman character with whom Obama lived during much of his adolescence.
If the critics are to be believed -- they ought not be -- that makes two
early Obama poems about his grandfather, the other being "Pop."
The contention that Obama's poems are about Dunham, however, leaves
a basic question unanswered: why did Obama not call the poem "Gramps."
If I were to write about the man I knew as "Gramps," I might not
necessarily call the poem "Gramps," but I surely would not call it
"Pop." That latter title, after all, has obvious implications.
The case for Dunham as "Pop" is further weakened by the line in the
poem, "he switches channels, recites an old poem he wrote before his
mother died." Although Obama credits Gramps with a little poetic
dabbling, Dunham was more of a dirty limerick kind of guy than a real
poet.
As an adolescent, Obama did have a relationship with a
real poet, Frank Marshall
Davis, a Communist and pornographer but also a skilled writer.
"I could see Frank sitting in his overstuffed chair," Obama remembers in
Dreams, "a book of poetry in his lap, his reading glasses slipping down
his nose."
Obama continues, "[Frank] would read us his poetry
whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an
emptied jelly jar."
Cashill
has
done a lot to expose Obama's suspicious literary career, but you'll
have to decide for yourself if he's on the right track here. He does
make some very interesting points.
The Punahou Prom
These previously unpublished photos, obtained exclusively by TIME from Obama's schoolmate Kelli Allman (née McCormack), show a 17-year-old Barack Obama on the night of his senior prom.
"Barry spent in his days at the Punahou School in Hawaii studying, shooting hoops and goofing off with his friends. Greg Orme, a fellow varsity basketball player, was Obama's constant companion. 'They were like brothers,' says Allman.
"On prom night, the pair double-dated. Obama and his date Megan Hughes, a student at the Hawaii School for Girls at La Pietra, joined Orme at Allman's house, where the two couples sipped champagne before going to the dance and then an after-party. 'It was a really fun, happy time. We were all cracking up, and everyone was smiling,' says Allman.
"It was pretty typical from there out as far as what happens at
prom: the dinner and the dancing and the photos."
Occidental
Barack Obama began his undergraduate education at Occidental
College, in California. Occidental is a 1,825-student liberal arts
college in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles and isn't shy
about claiming Obama as an alumnus for his two years there (1979-81) on
full scholarship.
The Boston Globe did a large
piece on his Occidental years.
Obama
writes in "Dreams," that he saw his mentor, the communist Frank
Marshall Davis, only a few days before he left for Occidental College,
and that Davis seemed as radical as ever.
Davis called college, "An advanced degree in compromise" and warned
Obama not to forget his "people" and not to "start believing what they
tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that
shit."
With those words ringing in his head, Obama entered Occidental
College in California in 1979, where his
freshman
roommate was Imad Husain, a Pakistani, who's now a Boston banker.
Also, as a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan
Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis.
Obama had an international circle of friends -- "a real eclectic sort of
group," says Vinai Thummalapally, who himself came from Hyderabad,
India, and who lived with Obama the summer of 1980.
In his first memoir, "Dreams," Obama
included a
description of black student life at
Occidental College in Los Angeles (click and expand page 98).
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it
came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying
close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained
necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the
black masses, to strike out and name names."
He added: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends
carefully. The more politically active black students. The
foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and
structural feminists."
Obama said he and other blacks were careful not to second-guess their
own racial identity in front of whites.
"To admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to
general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the
first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred," he
wrote.
Obama
joined the
Students for Economic Democracy (SED), a radical socialist "cousin"
organization to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), of which the
Weather Underground was an off-shoot. As a matter of
fact, Obama's first public speech was at an event sponsored by the
Students for Economic Democracy. This fringe group was chaired by
the radical Tom Hayden in the late 70's and early '80's.
You are know by your friends and associates -- and Obama's are the
hard-core leftists.
Occidental Friends
At Occidental College,
Obama plays basketball and continues taking drugs. He becomes
friends with Pakistani Muslims Mohammed Hasan Chandoo (perhaps spelled
Chandio) and Wahid Hamid, and Indian Vinai Thummalapally. At
Occidental College Obama indulges in alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.
He becomes interested in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
While at Occidental Obama is mentored by an openly gay professor,
Lawrence Goldyn, who has a strong influence on Obama’s acceptance of
gays. Fellow student Thummalapally lives with Obama in the summer
of 1980. Obama’s freshman year roommate at Occidental is Imad
Husain, a Pakistani.
Safely away from his grandparents Obama
starts smoking cigarettes while at Occidental College, as many as 10 per
day, and continues the habit until an attempt to quit in February of
2007. On the campaign trail in 2008, however, reporters with a keen
sense of smell recognize that Obama was still sneaking occasional
cigarettes. (Obama’s refusal to release his medical records may arguably
relate to his 25-year smoking habit.)
Obama and Chandoo
Obama’s friends at
Occidental tend to be the more politically active blacks, foreign
students, Chicanos, Marxist professors, structural feminists, and
punk-rock performance poets. Obama is rebuked on one occasion for
calling another black student, who wasn’t "black enough," an "Uncle
Tom." One female student criticizes Obama with the remark, "You always
think it’s about you."
At Occidental, Obama meets a professor of
politics who is a CIA expert on the Soviet Union and an associate of
Zbigniew Brzezinski (who would later be the National Security Advisor to
Jimmy Carter -- and then to Obama).
You will notice that Obama's
roommates were foreign students from South Asia. This is a pretty
good indicator that Obama was enrolled as a foreign student from that
part of the world.
Summer 1980
There is an anecdote related
in the Maraniss book “Barack Obama: The Story” that embraces a
confluence of events and timing that leaves Obama open for
immense interrogation, if only there was someone in the media to
first recognize it and second able to get it out there for all
to see.
Remember the Obama race speech where he referred
to grandma “tuts” as a “typical white person”
afraid of taking the bus to work because of “black man”
who was “in the neighborhood”. As Jack Cashill has
enumerated, Obama creates generic scenarios as life experiences.
There is no doubt that this anecdote was created by Obama but
what is notable is that in the Maraniss books Obama has moved
this scenario from occurring in “high school” to “between my
college years” meaning between freshman and sophomore at
Occidental. The end result of the anecdote had Obama
“(driving) down to see the aging black poet , Frank Marshall
Davis, at his shack in “the jungle” near the Ala Wai Canal, and
shared a drink with Davis, and listened as the old man talked
about race in America”.
So we have Obama in his own
words seeking a meeting with Frank Marshall Davis in Hawaii at a
time when Obama felt “utterly alone“ and was looking for
understanding. Several pages following this anecdote but
preceding it’s telling in time, Maraniss writes “When Barry
returned to Hawaii for part of the summer of 1980, he staked
claim to his old bedroom in Gramps and Tut’s Punahou Circle
apartment for the last time”. Continuing Maraniss writes
“at about the time Barry left Oxy for home, a lawyer in Honolulu
named William H. Gilardy Jr. filed papers in the Family Court of
the First Circuit on behalf of Stanley Ann Soetero seeking a
divorce from Lolo Soetero“. Documentation evidenced the
divorce proceeding began on June 15th, 1980. Which places Barack
Obama in Hawaii on or about June 15th, 1980. For those closely
following Obama’s history this is relevant to a certain document
he was required to complete. A somewhat coincidental story
follows of one Lisa Jack, she of the infamous “freshman
photographs” apparently meeting him in a Honolulu night club, he
draped in female apparel but giving her the requisite time of
day for a “non babe”. Maraniss admits this encounter was
“exaggerated”, though gives no indication as to when it
occurred.
The very next reference to Mr Obama’s was as
follows, “ When he returned to Oxy, the Annex was out of his
life. He had talked to Kofi Manu, the Ghanaian, about finding an
apartment with him for their sophomore year, but instead moved
into a place with his Pakistani friend Hasan Chandoo, now a
senior………Vinai Thummalapally, from India, was leaving the
apartment for another place, though he would come over often and
cook meals there".
The Obama official line is that,
Thummalapally came to the United States in 1974 at the age of
19, and attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he
first met Obama in 1980. They spent the summer as roommates,
debating foreign policy and watching Los Angeles Lakers
basketball games. Thummalapally lived with Obama the summer of
1980. The two ran together daily, 3 miles in the early morning,
often chatting about their dreams. Thummalapally made Indian
food for “Barry”—the name Obama went by at that time—teaching
him how to make daal.
Not only does the NBA not play in
the summer, that season the Lakers were NBA champions and the
last game was played on May 16th, 1980. According to Vinai’s
future wife, a fellow Oxy student Barbara Nichols-Roy: "Vinai
and I met Barack about a month after we had both met. We were
part of the same group, especially during my last year at Oxy's
when Vinai and a friend roomed right above Barack and another
close friend in an apartment complex near our college". This
meeting was undoubtedly as a result of Barack Obama moving in
with his new Pakisatani friend Hasan Chandoo, which we now know
occurred sometime on his return from Hawaii in the summer of
1980. Since Obama spent his freshman year in the dorms at Oxy,
this is evidence that the Thummalapally meeting did not occur
until after the end of the 1980 Spring semester. So did Obama
spent the summer with Vinai?, he most certainly was not ever his
“roommate”, nor did he or Barabara ever attend classes with
Obama, though as "International Students" they appeared to hang
out together, maybe he was Obama’s beard, for Husan.Whatever the
truth he is now Ambassador to Belize.
Why is all this
important? The summer of 1980 was marked by an announcement by
then President Jimmy Carter on 2 July, 1980 of the reinstitution
of the draft for males 18 an older. Obama’s selective services
registration dates were between July 28th, 2008 and Aug 4th,
1980. At any post office in the US but required “in person” and
with “evidence of identity”. Barack Obama’s 19th birthday was on
Aug 4th, 1980. Occidental college fall semester was to begin on
Aug 25th, 1980. Barack moved off campus that summer, met life
long friends that summer, discussed major politics of our time
that summer, and yet his knowledge of completing his draft
registration was “right out of high school in 1979”.
Do
today’s journalist just not care anymore.
Registers For Draft --
Maybe?
Pajamas Media
obtained official confirmation from the Selective Service
System via email that Barack Obama did indeed register for the
Selective Service as required by law.
Barack Hussein
Obama registered at a post office in Hawaii. The effective
registration date was September 4, 1980.
His
registration number is 61-1125539-1.
Daniel Amon Public Affairs Specialist
However, Debbie
Schussle wants to know if President-elect Barack Hussein Obama
committed a federal crime in September of this year?
Did
he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in
the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official
copy of his alleged Selective Service registration commit the
crime for him?
It's either one or the other, as indicated
by the release of Barack Obama's official Selective Service
registration for the draft. A friend of mine, who is a retired
federal agent, spent almost a year trying to obtain this
document through a Freedom of Information Act request, and,
after much stonewalling, finally received it and released it to
me.
But the release of Obama's draft
registration and an accompanying document, posted below, raises
more questions than it answers. And it shows many signs of
fraud, not to mention putting the lie to Obama's claim that he
registered for the draft in June 1979, before it was required by
law.
Lou Chibbaro writing for the Washington Blade says that as an
18-year-old undergraduate student at Occidental College in Los Angeles,
Barack Obama was among a coterie of students who spoke regularly with
Lawrence Goldyn.
Goldyn, an openly gay political science
professor who served as a mentor and friend to many of the school’s
minority students, said Obama joined him and other students in
discussions about social and political issues at a time when Obama was
beginning to develop an interest in politics and civil rights causes.
He decided to speak with the Blade about his interaction with
Obama during their years at Occidental after Obama told the Advocate, in
an April interview, that Goldyn had a "strong influence" in his
understanding and perception of gay people and gay rights.
"He
was a wonderful guy," Obama said of Goldyn in that interview. "He
was the first openly gay professor that I had ever come into contact
with, or openly gay person of authority that I had come in contact
with."
"He wasn’t proselytizing all the time, but just his
comfort in his own skin and the friendship we developed helped to
educate me on a number of these issues."
Goldyn told the Blade
that he believes he first met Obama when Obama took a course on European
politics from him in 1979 or 1980.
At the time, Goldyn was
considered a controversial figure at Occidental for advocating gay
liberation. But Goldyn said he became a mentor to gay students
during a period when academic institutions had few positive role models
for gay men and lesbians.
"He was remarkable in that he was not
intimidated by a publicly gay figure and, in fact, was interested in
learning from me, whether formally or informally. That required an
extraordinary kind of confidence in an 18 or 19 year old -- the kind
that comes from somewhere deep inside, that was still finding its way
into his adult personality.
"He demonstrated a kind of social
courage, which has served him well and helped get him where he is
today," said Goldyn, who described himself as a strong supporter of
Obama’s presidential campaign.
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Obama, The Poet
On the basis of two poems Barack Obama wrote and published as an
undergraduate, Ian McMillan in The Guardian opines that the Democratic
nominee for president had obviously read the Beat poets and writers like
Gary Snyder and Charles Bukowski, who knew that the simple words are the
best ones, as long as you place them carefully on the page.
Jack
Cashill
believes the "Pop" in "Pop" was Frank Marshall Davis.
Obama's First Political Speech
WorldNetDaily
reports that it was at Occidental that Obama first engaged in
community activism, delivering what has been described as the first
political speech of his career. On Feb. 18, 1981, Obama addressed
students gathered outside Coons Hall administration building, exhorting
Occidental's trustees to divest from South Africa. The speech
was sponsored by Students for Economic
Democracy (SED)
Obama
had joined the SED, a branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy
(CED). That group was founded by radical, anti-American, Marxist
activist Tom Hayden (former husband of actress Jane Fonda), who was also
active with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).Obama writes
in "Dreams..." about the rally,
co-sponsored by the
Black Student Alliance.
Obama agreed to deliver the opening remarks for the rally, for which, he
writes, "the agenda had been carefully arranged beforehand." In
the middle of his speech "a couple of white students" were to come
onstage, "dressed in their paramilitary uniforms," to drag him away.
"A bit of street theater, a way to dramatize the situation for activists
in South Africa," Obama writes.
Hayden
authored the 1962 "Port Huron Statement," the first official political
manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS -- the
radical 1960s protest movement from which Ayers' Weathermen terrorist
organization splintered.
An example of Hayden's brash rhetoric
dates to his December 1968 testimony before the House Committee on
Un-American Activities on the Chicago "anti-war protests."
At
the committee, a portion of Hayden's SDS manifesto was read:
"Disobey your parents: burn your money: you
know life is a dream and all of our institutions are man-made
illusions effective because YOU take the dream for reality. … Break
down the family, church, nation, city, economy; turn life into an
art form, a theatre of the soul and a theatre of the future; the
revolutionary is the only artist. … What's needed is a generation of
people who are freaky, crazy, irrational, sexy, angry, irreligious,
childish and mad: people who burn draft cards, burn high school and
college degrees; people who say: "To hell with your goals!"; people
who lure the youth with music, pot and acid; people who re-define
the normal; people who break with the status-role-title-consumer
game; people who have nothing material to lose but their flesh. …"
When asked if this was "the way to have a better
America," Hayden called them "beautiful sentiments."
The
official mission statement for Hayden's SED, for which Obama delivered a
major speech, espouses socialist ideology:
"Economic democracy
means that ownership and control will be spread among a wide variety of
public bodies: city, state and Federal governments, churches, trade
unions, cooperatives and community groups, small business people,
workers and consumers."
Hayden later was a founding member of
Progressives for Obama, a matrix of radicals who supported Obama's
presidential candidacy.
Road
Trip
At a
fundraiser in San Francisco on April 7th 2008, Barack Obama waxed eloquently on the
need of foreign policy experience to be Commander in Chief, saying:
"You do that in eighty countries -- you don't know those eighty
countries. So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for
four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in
Africa -- knowing the leaders is not important -- what I know is the
people..."
... and out of the blue, came this statement:**
"I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college -- I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. .
. ."
In 1981, after visiting his mother and sister Maya in Indonesia, Obama
went to Pakistan for about three weeks, In 1981, as a student,
Obama visited Larkana for a partridge hunting session. He traveled with Wahid Hamid and
staying in Karachi with Mohammed Hasan Chandio's [sic] family in Karachi and visiting Hyderabad as well.
Obama also made friends with Chairman of Senate, Muhammadmian Soomro,
who said that in Pakistan he [Obama]
came to know about Sunni and Shia sects.
According to the
report of Larry Rohter of April 10, 2008, in The New York Times, the
Obama campaign staff, when questioned about the revelation of Obama's
1981 trip to Karachi, stated: "Mr. Obama visited Pakistan in 1981, on
the way back from Indonesia, where his mother and half-sister, Maya
Soetoro-Ng, were living. He spent 'about three weeks' there, Mr.
Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton, said, staying in Karachi with the
family of a college friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, but also traveling
to Hyderabad, in India." That information is significant for two
reasons. First and foremost is the fact that Mohammed Hasan
Chandoo is a radical Muslim who with his relatives operate a website
that is anti-Semitic and anti-American and supports radical Islamic
politics.
Go to chandoo.com , the home page of the Chandoo brothers, with a links
to the Chandoo brothers favorite sites. Not only are the sites
anti-American and anti-Semitic, they are anti-women, with several vulgar
references to the distasteful Shia Muslim practice of "muttah," a short
term marriage whereby poor Pakistani and Indian Muslims often "pimp"
their own daughters to Middle-East tourists for a few rupees.
I wonder which face Obama wore to Pakistan
-- his Christian face? --
or his Muslim face?
Update:
Hamid nor Chandoo have each
contributed the maximum $2,300 to Obama's campaign, and records
indicate each has joined an Asian-American council that supports his run
for president. Both also are listed on Obama's campaign Web site
as being among his top fundraisers, each bringing in between $100,000
and $200,000 in contributions from their networks of friends. Both
also attended Obama's wedding in 1992, according to published reports
and other friends.
There have
been many postings to the Internet that claim travel to Pakistan was
forbidden to Americans at this time. That is a false report. There was a "travel advisory"
issued by the U. S. State Department in August 1981 that stated that
Americans should be aware of updated visa requirements, but there never
was any ban on travel to Pakistan by Americans.
**Another Obama coincidence -- just two weeks before this
announcement, employees of John
Brennan, who would become Obama's terror chief, were caught
tampering with Obama's passport files.
Recollections Of An Occidental Classmate
Doug Ross says that Dr. John Drew
was a classmate of Obama's at Occidental College. He was
interviewed by Paul Kengor on
The Glen Meakem Show, and he took time to transcribe most of the
podcast because of its importance.
Q: I interviewed you for my book Dupes
a year ago and you had contact me a couple of years ago because you
read a piece that I wrote for American Thinker and it was
called "Dreams
from Frank Marshall Davis" and it was on Obama's background and
youth. Frank Marshall Davis was an actual Party member and
that's something, John, I spent two or three years on investigating,
but there's no question about it... the documentation is there, a
1957 Senate report called him "and identified member of the
Communist Party," there's an FBI file that's 600 pages, and I took
ten or twelve pages from that report and put it in the appendix of
my book. It even lists Davis' Communist Party card number,
which was 47544, so very clear. Why is all of this relevant?
Well, I think it explains, at least to some degree, that -- if he's
not a Communist, he's at least very far to the left -- and has some
very left-oriented views. But you met Obama when he left Frank
Marshall Davis in 1980 coming from Hawaii and went to Occidental
College. So tell us about when Obama got there and when you
met.
A: I see myself as Barack Obama's missing link
from his exposure to Communism through Frank Marshall Davis and his
later exposure to Bill Ayers and Alice Palmer in Chicago. So,
as far as I can tell, I'm the only one of Obama's extended circle of
friends who's spoken out and verified that he was a Marxist-Leninist
in his sophomore year of college, from 1980 to 1981.
I met
him because I graduated from Occidental College in 1979 and I was
back at Occidental visiting a girlfriend. I met him because of
the relationship which I'd started my senior year at Occidental --
Q: By the way, tell us where Occidental is. We're
way out here in Western Pennsylvania.
A: Sure,
Occidental College is in the Eastern Los Angeles area. It's a
very prestigious, very beautiful, sort of very garden, rose-garden
sort of college, with three- or four-thousand students --
Q:
And pretty competitive, I mean Obama would have had to have good
grades and been a good student to get accepted there.
A:
Yeah, my sense is because of affirmative action, guys like me were
going to Occidental instead of even better schools and guys like
Obama were going to Occidental instead of, uh, less challenging
schools. A lot of very successful people were there, were part
of Obama's social circle at the time.
Q: Now, was
Occidental known for radical left politics? Would that have
been an attraction for Obama?
A: Yeah, I'm certain that
it was. It was considered sort of the "Moscow" of southern
California. There were a lot of Marxist professors, many of
whom I got to know pretty well, not just there but also at Williams
College in Massachusetts. Two of the same Marxist-Socialist
professors were on the staff with me at Williams.
Appears to be the faculty lounge at Occidental,
circa 1980. It also appears that Barry is toasted. It was
around this time when Barry Obama started to use the name "Barack."
The blackboard, in addition to listing the booze
available, has a reference to Eagle Rock High School, located between
the cities of Pasadena and Glendale in the northeastern tip of Los
Angeles, CA. Occidental College is located in the community of
Eagle Rock.
Did Obama Affirm His Indonesian Citizenship?
On his website, Phil Berg
explains he believes Obama obtained an Indonesian passport while he
lived with his mother and stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, in Indonesia, and
that his act of attending school in Indonesia required him to be an
Indonesian citizen.
Further, he contends that as an adult, Obama
chose to continue his Indonesian citizenship by renewing his passport.
"Renewing an Indonesian passport after the age of 18 is an
affirmative act, as you are swearing allegiance to another country.
Soetoro/Obama renewed his Indonesian passport when he traveled to
Pakistan, that is why he had to stop in Indonesia first. Remember,
in 1981, [his mother] was divorcing Soetoro in Hawaii and was not in
Indonesia. Obama/Soetoro admits to traveling to Indonesia first
and then on to Pakistan. Soetoro/Obama claims in his book 'Dreams
from my Father' that he stopped in Indonesia to visit his mother.
But again, his mother was not in Indonesia, she was in Hawaii with Maya,
divorcing Lolo Soetoro. In addition, the State Department has
stated in response to a FOIA request that they do not have a U.S.
Passport application on file for Barack H. Obama," he explained.
"As a result of Soetoro/Obama's Indonesian 'natural' citizenship
status, Soetoro/Obama could never regain U.S. 'natural born' status, if
he in fact he ever held such, which we doubt. Soetoro/Obama could
have only become 'naturalized' if the proper paperwork were filed with
the U.S. State Department, after going through U.S. Immigration upon his
return to the United States; in which case, Soetoro/Obama would have
received a Certification of Citizenship indicating 'naturalized,'" he
said.
Columbia
In 1981, in search
of a community to belong to,
he
transfers to that prestigious university on the edge of Harlem --
Columbia, where
he majors in political science with a specialization in international relations.
He also swapped drugs for Marxism.
Obama says he was somewhat
involved with the Black Students Organization and participated in
anti-apartheid activities. "Mostly, my years at Columbia were an
intense period of study," he says. "When I transferred, I decided
to buckle down and get serious. I spent a lot of time in the
library. I didn’t socialize that much. I was like a monk."
Obama says it is difficult to separate his college experience at
Columbia from the urban experience of living in New York City, and his
memoir offers little about his time on campus
When Obama arrived in New York, he already knew Sohale "Hal" Siddiqi, a
drug addicted illegal alien from Pakistan, who was a friend of Chandoo's
and Hamid's from Karachi, who had visited them at Occidental College.
He had come to New York from London two years earlier and found his
caustic wit and unabashed desire to make money in the cocaine trade perfectly pitched to the
city’s mood. He had overstayed his tourist visa and now made a
living in New York’s high-turnover, illegal immigrant workforce, waiting
on tables.
In 1982, Siddiqi and Obama got an apartment at a sixth-floor
walk-up on East 94th Street.
In "The Book,"
Siddiqi is identified only as "Sadik" -- a short, well-built Pakistani"
who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. They were roomies for a while. Siddiqi
confirmed Obama's account that he turned serious in New York and
"stopped getting high."
"I stopped getting high. I
ran 3 miles a day and fasted on Sundays. For the first time in
years I applied myself to my studies and started keeping a journal of
daily reflections and very bad poetry,"
he wrote in "Dreams."
He went to the Marxist-Socialist conferences at
Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started
lecturing his relatives until they worried he'd become "one of
those freaks you see on the streets around here."
The Obama campaign
declined to discuss Obama's time at Columbia and his friendships in
general. It won't, for example, release his transcript or name his
friends. It did, however, list five locations where Obama lived
during his four years here: three on Manhattan's Upper West Side and two
in Brooklyn -- one in Park Slope, the other in Brooklyn Heights.
His memoir mentions two others on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Where Was Obama?
Dr. Orly Taitz that has a shocking revelation. It seems Obama
went missing for more than a year in 1981 when he was supposed to be at
Columbia. That's also the year that Obama said he went to Pakistan for the summer.
The
following paragraphs have been extracted from Taitz' First Amended
Complaint, filed at the U. S. District Court for the District of
Columbia:
27. Further records
from the Student Clearing House show even more shocking evidence.
In his memoirs and multiple speeches Obama wrote that he studied for
two years at Columbia University September 1981-May 1983. He
admitted that in summer of 1981 he traveled to Pakistan to visit his
friends, but repeatedly claimed that from September 1981 until May
of 1983 he resided in New York and studied at Columbia University.
Taitz ran a check of his years of attendance at Columbia university
and found out that Columbia official records
show him attending Columbia university only for nine months
September 1982-till May 1983 (Exhibit
3 -- last line -- click to enlarge),
which means that the President of the United States lied to the
whole nation about his whereabouts for a whole year September 1981
until September 1982. One year absence is the best case
scenario, as he could get his university credit by reciprocity or
through extern studies.
28. As
there is no record of Obama residing anywhere else in the United
States from September 1981-September 1982, or attending any other
university, by way of simple deduction it becomes clear that his
visit to Pakistan lasted not a month or two, as he claims, but may
have lasted for over
a year.
29. In 1981-1982 Pakistan was ruled by a
ruthless radical Muslim leader general Zia Ul Hac, who came to power
as a result of a military coup, announced himself as a Chief Martial
Law Administrator and ruled the country via the system of iron fist
terror. Supreme court of Pakistan, apparently afraid for their
lives found such rule to be acceptable due to a "necessity"
doctrine. Based on verification of Columbia university
records, Taitz found that Obama spent at least a year within the
regime of general Zia Ul Hac. This revelation adds urgency in
processing this complaint, as it shows that we have today an
individual usurping the position of the President of the United
States and Commander-in-Chief of the whole US military, while using
a stolen social security number, not possessing a valid long form
U.S. birth certificate and defrauding the nation and concealing a
whole year of his whereabouts.
Continue reading
here with additional
documents . . .
Taitz is
something of a loose cannon, but that is an interesting artifact that
she has uncovered.
Watch for the announcement from the National
Student Clearinghouse describing Taitz' discovery as a data entry error,
but in any case this isn't going to help Obama's Columbia story.
Obama's "Missing Year" At Columbia
Jerome Corsi
says swirling amid the black hole of information are a host of
theories about Obama’s whereabouts during the 1981-1982 school year, so
WorldNetDaily contacted the National Student Clearinghouse and Columbia
about the clearinghouse records that show Obama was at the school only
during the 1982-83 school year.
Janine Greenwood, vice president
and general counsel for the clearinghouse, told WND there was a
"computer error" in their system that has been corrected. She said she
confirmed with Columbia that Obama was at the university for two
academic years, not one.
Greenwood said she "tried to untangle
this" discrepancy one year ago after two "DegreeVerify certificates"
from the Herndon, Va.-based clearinghouse -- obtained through a
fee-based request -- indicated Obama attended Columbia College at
Columbia University only in the 1982-1983 academic year, from Sept. 1,
1982 until May 31, 1983, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree May 17,
1983.
"All I know is [the record] was right originally, and
somewhere along the line it went off the rails, and then it was right
again," she said.
Columbia's Robert Hornsby said he was unaware of any contact between
Columbia and the National Student Clearinghouse regarding the
discrepancy.
In the Thursday interview, Hornsby said regarding
the clearinghouse’s information: "I don’t know what they’re basing their
information on or what their system is for logging, but I can confirm,
as a matter of fact, that President Obama was here in September 1981 as
a transfer student from Occidental."
Asked whether he had
personally seen a transcript that would verify Obama attended classes
during the 1981-82 school year, Hornsby said, "You’re looking for proof
I cannot provide."
He noted academic records are protected by the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, "and we don’t talk
about any student’s academic records, presidents or otherwise."
Hornsby said his information is based on confirmation from "people that
have the authority" in the registrar’s office.
Which Columbia?
Obama attended Columbia School of General Studies. If a
General Studies student completes enough courses, and/or has other
credits from elsewhere accepted, a student can receive a degree.
People confuse Columbia University, Columbia College, and Columbia
General Studies. A big university system has many different
schools and colleges attached.
Of course, what Columbia
University will not release is exactly what Obama actually did while in
their General Studies degree program.
Undergraduate education at
Columbia
is offered through Columbia College, the Fu Foundation School of
Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies.
Undergraduate programs are offered by two affiliated institutions,
Barnard College and Jewish Theological Seminary. Columbia
University provides post-graduate education through thirteen graduate
and professional schools and a school of continuing education.
Three affiliated schools also offer post-graduate programs.
Obama Was An Unremarkable Student
Obama was an unremarkable student and that he benefited from
affirmative action. Here are three reasons to support this view:
1) As reported by
The New York Sun: ”A spokesman for the university, Brian
Connolly, confirmed that Mr. Obama spent two years at Columbia College
and graduated in 1983 with a major in political science. He did not
receive honors…” In spite of not receiving honors as an undergrad, Obama
was nevertheless admitted to Harvard Law. Why?
2) Obama himself has written he was a poor student as a young
man. As the
Baltimore Sun reported:
In "Obama’s book 'Dreams from My Father,….the president recalled a
time in his life…when he started to drift away from the path of success.
'I had learned not to care,' Obama wrote. '… Pot had helped, and
booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.' But his
mother confronted him about his behavior. 'Don’t you think you’re
being a little casual about your future?' she asked him, according to
the book. '… One of your friends was just arrested for drug
possession. Your grades are slipping. You haven’t even
started on your college applications.'"
3) Most damning, of course, is Obama’s unwillingness to make
his transcripts public. If Obama had really been a stellar student with
impeccable grades as an undergrad, is there any doubt they would have
been made public by now and trumpeted on the front page of the New
York Times as proof of his brilliance? To
Matt Patterson it all adds up to affirmative action.
Appeared With Columbia Activist, Ayers
WorldNetDaily
reports that Obama has revealed almost nothing about his last two
years as an undergraduate at Columbia University's Columbia College.
Obama has said he was involved with the Black Students Organization,
which emerged in the 1960s in response to a growing black student
population at Columbia. Undergraduates formed the Student
Afro-American Society, "which was concerned with the affairs of black
students and issues of the greater black community."
The
Coalition for a Free South Africa (CFSA), began as a Black Students'
Organization committee to promote Columbia University's divestment in
stock in companies doing business in South Africa.
CFSA, which
split from the Black Students' Organization in 1981, was a loosely
structured group with a predominantly black steering committee of about
a dozen individuals who made decisions by consensus, and a less active
circle of about fifty students who attended meetings and the group's
protests and educational events."
Early CFSA leaders were Danny
Armstrong, a Columbia College student who played forward for Columbia's
basketball team, and Barbara Ransby, a student from the School of
General Studies
As CFSA spokeswoman, Ransby famously convinced
Columbia's student senate "to support full divestment."
Ransby,
now an associate professor of African-American studies and history at
the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the executive director of Public
Square, was in the class of 1984 at Columbia, only one year behind
Obama, who would later publicly appear with both Ransby and Ayers.
In April 2002, Ransby appeared at a University of Illinois-Chicago
forum and sat on the same panel -- "Intellectuals in Times of Crisis:
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations"
-- with both Obama and Ayers.
New York Livin'
Obama moved into an apartment with fellow Occidental College transfer
Phil
Boerner in the fall of
1981.
It was located at #3E, 142 W. 109th St., between Amsterdam and Columbus.
Boerner, who remained Obama's friend throughout his college years,
describes the apartment as a third story walkup with a railroad layout
and a missing doorbell. It had a walkthrough layout, and Boerner
had to walk through Obama's room to get to his own. The heating
frequently failed, one of the reasons Obama wound up spending so much
time in
Butler Library. At other times, the two roommates read their
books under blankets.
After their first semester, Obama tried to find a better apartment
for himself and his friend, but was only able to locate a studio.
He eventually moved into a walkup at #6A, 339 E. 94th St., in
Yorkville, where he would "chat with his Puerto Rican neighbors
about...the sound of gunfire at night".
Acxiom Database Suggests Barack Obama Used The Name Barack Soetoro
At Columbia
Obama/Soetoro discovered at Columbia University address. My friends. I am still going through all of the files that I made from all of the database pulls that I was completing almost daily on Obama and Soetoro just to name a few.
On 10/21/2011 I completed a pull for the last names of Soetoro and Obama for the state of NY and I printed it and scanned the pull and made a file then for later use. I just found them again. I want the public to see it first because as Americans we all deserve the truth first before anyone else. Let others try to disprove this. I date them.
Note the addresses that belong to both, "Barack Soetoro" (not Barry) and to Barack Obama as of 02/2010. It is an address in NYC at Columbia University. These were pulls that were completed using ACXIOM.
I will be doing an article for the Hustle tomorrow. Documents had to be altered on 02/2010 at Columbia for there to be two separate indexes to be created. Could it be a name change to help hide something? Do they think we are stupid?
Now, what is located at 2960 Broadway, New York, NY?
As most of you know, there has been speculation for many years that Barack Obama attended Occidental College on a Fulbright Scholarship available only to foreign students.
There is also speculation that Obama's 1981 "road trip" was made using an Indonesian passport.
Now we see Barack Obama using the surname "Soetoro" in association with Columbia University.
Remember, Lolo Soetoro was still acknowleding Barry/Barack/Subarkah/Soetoro/Obama as his son at the time of the Dunham-Soetoro divorce in August of 1980 even though Barack Obama of Kenya formally acknowledged Barry Obama as his son in 1972.
It appears likely that Barack Obama was a legal resident and carried the passports of Indonesia and the United States from 1972 through at least 1982.
If it suited Obama and his mother to be American -- he was an American -- and if it suited Obama and his mother to be Indonesian -- he was Indonesian.
Probably Photoshopped -- But There Is No
Way To Know
Cooper Union
Each year from 1983 to 2004, the City University of New York’s
(CUNY) chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
sponsored the Socialist Scholars Conference (SSC) at Cooper Union, a
privately funded college for the advancement of science and art.
SSC events featured the elite of socialist academia as well as union
activists, political revolutionaries, reformers, and opponents of
"corporate greed." According to the libertarian writer Trevor
Loudon, guest speakers at these conferences included "members of the
Communist Party USA and its offshoot, the Committees of Correspondence,
as well as Maoists, Trotsyists, black radicals, gay activists and
radical feminists,"
and,
Barack Hussein Obama.
Cloward And Piven
Obama studied the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis in
Political Science classes at Columbia University.
The
Cloward-Piven Strategy is to overcommit government, growing it past
the point of sustainability by
causing crises. This, while developing an organized
proletariat of dependent classes and applying them to
disrupt society and revolt against American freedoms. All, to
ring in the new "egalitarian" (neo-Marxist)
state. That would be a big "change."
The
Thesis
The latest report on Obama's
missing thesis comes from MSNBC. Written his senior year at
Columbia University, Obama's thesis was about Soviet nuclear
disarmament. It's only natural to wonder what the budding
socialist turned presidential candidate thought of nuclear proliferation
in the early 1980s.
"We do not have a copy of the course paper you requested and neither
does Columbia University," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt
told NBC News.
The Obama campaign has been less than forthcoming with details.
"Spokesman Ben LaBolt wouldn’t even say whether Sen. Obama threw out his
copy or lost it." At an earlier date, an aide actually told the
New Republic the junior senator couldn't recall what he had written
about, but as that editor notes, "who doesn't remember their senior
thesis?" To get the inside scoop, MSNBC contacted the former
professor who taught Obama's senior seminar and who recalls the content
of the paper better than Obama himself.
What MSNBC doesn't report is that Baron, or at least a Michael Baron who
also happens to run an electronics company in Florida, has given $1,250
to Obama. Maybe if the Obama campaign would release the thesis and
Obama's college transcript like a normal presidential campaign, we could
all decide for ourselves whether Obama deserves an A.
The Author
In early 2009, an
article
written by Obama, Breaking the War Mentality, was
discovered.
It's crap, for the most part. You'll have to
read it and decide for yourself.
Obama Meets Ayers?
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?
Who?
Obama graduated from
Columbia College in 1983, and after spending a year in New York, moved to Chicago.
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."
Here
is an in-depth interview with Wayne Allen Root.
Henry Says, Who?
Did he attend classes at Columbia?
Henry
Franklin Graff, professor emeritus of history at Columbia for 46 years,
has cast doubt on claims Obama attended classes at the New York City
university.
"I have no recollection of Barack Obama
at Columbia, and I am sure he never attended any of my classes," Graff
told WND in a telephone interview.
"For 46 years, I taught
political history, diplomatic history and one of the pioneering courses
on presidential history, and every future politician of note who went
through Columbia in those years took one or more of my classes – every
one, that is, except Barack Obama."
Graff further told WND no
professor he knew could remember having Obama as a student at Columbia.
"Nobody I knew at Columbia ever remembers Obama being there," Graff
insisted.
Oh! Him
Well, he didn't go to the prom or make it into the yearbook, but the
day after he was elected resident, Columbia suddenly remembered that
Barack Obama went to school there, by proclaiming that Obama, CC'83,
had become the first
Columbia graduate elected Resident of the United States.
He joins
other illustrious Columbians who went on to run the country at pivotal
times during its history: Theodore Roosevelt, who was president from
1901 to 1908, and his cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt, president from 1933
to 1945. Both attended Columbia Law School but did not graduate.
And Dwight D. Eisenhower left his post as University president in 1952
to become the nation's 34th president. As an undergraduate, he
attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Evidence That Obama Attended Columbia
There are lots of questions about whether Obama
attended Columbia, or not.
As Wayne Allyn Root
said above, "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.
And Fox News interviewed 400 former students from his
graduating class and no-one remembers him.
But finally! We have
the evidence, in the form of his
transcript (click
to enlarge) and student ID!
Just kidding . . .
Harvard
Law
Even though Obama’s
Columbia grades fall below the Harvard norm, likely even below the
affirmative action-adjusted black norm at Harvard, Obama began Harvard Law
School in 1988.
Friends say he did not
want anyone to assume they knew his mind and because of that, even those
close to him did not always know exactly where he stood.
"He then and now is
very hard to pin down," said Kenneth Mack, a
classmate and now a professor at the law school, referring to the
senator’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand style.
Mack added, "Obama stood out from the beginning. He seemed more
mature. Everyone understood he was a liberal. He didn't hide
that."
All the yearbooks for the year Obama graduated
have been yanked from Harvard’s library.
Obama's
Benefactor
How
exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education?
The way the Obama campaign has answered the question was simply hard
work and student loans, even though Obama’s financial disclosures found
no trace of any outstanding college loans, going back to 2000.
Michelle Obama contradicted this claim by saying that the couple had
"only just" paid off their student loans after receiving book royalties
paid out in 2005 and 2006.
But new questions have been raised about Obama’s student loans and
Obama’s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising
money for Obama’s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991.
The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan
Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a
former business partner who was "raising money" for Obama had approached
him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.
In this video
interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago
from Khalid Al-Mansour, who Sutton described as advisor to "one of the
world’s richest men," Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Prince Alwaleed catapulted to fame in the United States after the
September 11 attacks, when New York mayor Rudy Guiliani refused his $10
million check to help rebuild Manhattan, because the Saudi prince hinted
publicly that America’s pro-Israel policies were to blame for the
attacks.
Sutton knew
Al-Mansour well, since the two men had been business partners and
served on several corporate boards together.
As Sutton remembered, Al-Mansour was raising money for Obama’s education
and seeking recommendations for him to attend Harvard Law School.
"I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,"
Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter. "The friend’s name is
Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas."
Apparently, al-Mansour
serves on the Board of, among others, Saudi African Bank and was
responsible for the Africa investment activities of Kingdom Holdings,
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's investment company.
Obama
released seven years of
tax returns on March 25 of 2009.
The
returns, dating back to 2000, indicate that the couple paid no interest
on their student loans. The interest from such loans would have been
deductible on their joint income tax returns.
For 2000 through
2004, taxpayers declared student loan interest as a deduction on line 24
of federal form 1040. After 2004, the deduction can be taken on Line 33.
But the Obamas never declared a dime of interest in student loans on
their return.
Harvard Law
Review
On February 6th, 1990, Obama became the first
African-American president of the
Harvard Law Review. The job is considered the
highest student position at Harvard Law School.
He managed to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review without ever
publishing a SINGLE piece of signed, written work -- not one!
Update: Obama did do
interviews and Politico
claims
that an unsigned -- and previously unattributed -- 1990 article was
produced by Obama and offers a glimpse at hi's views on abortion policy and the
law during his student days, and provides a rare addition to his body of
work.
The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the year's Harvard
Law Review, considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether
fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama's
answer: No.
I sent Politico an email asking how they knew the document was produced
by Obama, since it is "unsigned -- and previously unattributed."
They never responded.
Obama’s
timing, however, was better than his writing. In the same spring
1990 term that he would stand for the presidency, the Harvard
Law School found itself embroiled in an explosive racial brouhaha.
Black firebrand law professor Derrick Bell was demanding that the
Harvard Law School appoint a black woman to the law faculty.
This protest would culminate in vigils and protests by the racially
sensitive student body, in the course of which Obama would compare the
increasingly absurd Bell to Rosa Parks.
Feeling the pressure, HLR editors wanted to elect their first African
American president. Obama had an advantage. Spared the
legacy of slavery and segregation, and having grown up in a white
household, he lacked the hard edge of many of his black colleagues.
"Obama cast himself as an eager listener," the New York Times reported,
"sometimes giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with
all of them at once."
In February 1990, after an ideologically charged all day affair, Obama’s
fellow editors elected him president from among 19 candidates. As
it happened, Obama prevailed only after the HLR’s small conservative
faction threw him its support.
Obama was
elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened
Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said.
Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the
president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic
rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney
General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and
Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M.
Nixon.
Obama personally responded to the
controversy by writing a
poorly-written letter explaining both the Review’s selection policy
and his personal experience with affirmative action. The letter was
published in Volume 91, Number 7 (November 16, 1990) of the Harvard Law
Record. It is reprinted here.
Curiously, once elected, Obama contributed not one signed word to the
HLR or any other law journal. As Matthew Franck has pointed out in
National Review Online, "A search of the HeinOnline database of law
journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review
anywhere at any time. After his appointment, the NY Times carried
a story in February 1990, that included a few quotes
from Obama:
"The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress," Mr. Obama
said today in an interview. "It's encouraging." "But it's
important that stories like mine aren't used to say that everything is
O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me,
there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal
talent who don't get a chance," he said, alluding to poverty or growing
up in a drug environment...
On his goals in his new post, Obama said: "I personally am interested in pushing a strong minority
perspective. I'm fairly opinionated about this.
But as president of the law review, I have a limited role as only first
among equals." Therefore, Obama said, he would concentrate on
making the review a "forum for debate," bringing in new writers and
pushing for livelier, more accessible writing.
Unlike most editors, and likely all its
presidents, Obama was not a writer. During his tenure at Harvard, he
wrote only one heavily edited, unsigned note.
In this note for the third volume of the 1990 HLR, he argued against any
limits on abortion, citing the government’s interest in "preventing
increasing numbers of children from being born in to lives of pain and
despair."
Well, the new system, disputed when it began, was meant to
help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.
And, it worked!
In other words, Obama was the first affirmative
action President of the Harvard Law Revue.
Einstein And The
Law
In a page-one footnote of what may be the zaniest-titled
article ever
published by the Harvard Law Review: "The Curvature of Constitutional
Space: What Lawyers Can Learn From Modern Physics," authored by noted
legal scholar Laurence Tribe.
The 39-page densely argued treatise argues that constitutional
jurisprudence should be updated in a similar way that Einstein's theory
of relativity replaced Newtonian mechanics, a view that would release
judges from the original intent of the Founders of America.
Published in 1989, with help of the much younger and politically greener
Mr. Obama, the long-ago article could indicate his views on the
Constitution, which, if he is elected, could come into play in such
matters as his choice of nominees to the Supreme Court.
If Mr. Obama captures the White House, he might not curve space but may
settle for setting aside a high-altitude seat on the Supreme Court for
his former teacher, Mr. Tribe, who is the Carl M. Loeb University
Professor at Harvard.
The
Plan
Abner Mikva, a five-term
congressman from Illinois who was at that time Chief Judge of the United
States Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit, tried to recruit Obama as
a clerk, a position considered a stepping stone to clerking on the
Supreme Court, but Obama turned him down.
"He could have gone to the most opulent of law firms," David Axelrod, a
longtime friend who is now Obama’s media adviser,
said. "After Harvard, Obama could have
done anything he wanted."
The Carl M. Loeb Professor at Harvard University, Laurence H. Tribe,
taught Obama and employed him as a research assistant. He
remembers him as a "brilliant, personable, and obviously unique" person.
Tribe said that Obama’s theoretical perspective on applying modern
physics to law was "very impressive."
"He is obviously a serious intellectual as well as a fantastic
campaigner who can reach across boundaries," Tribe said. "He will
make an extraordinarily fine president."
David B. Wilkins , the Kirkland and Ellis professor of law, said he
advised Obama to become a Supreme Court Clerk. "Obama recognized
the honor in pursuing that post," Wilkins said, but quickly added that
he wasn’t interested.
"He said that he wanted to write a book about his life and his father,
go back to Chicago, get back into the community, and run for office
there. He knew exactly what he wanted and went about getting it
done," Wilkins said.
Obama works hard to dispel the image of having sought his superstar
status. "It's not about me, it's about you," he likes to tell his
crowds. But according to those who know him, he has been talking about
the presidency for more than a decade. "It was clear to me from the day
I met him that he was thinking about politics,"
says Harvard Law School classmate Christine Spurell.
The one thread, that remains consistent, throughout Obama's life, is his
teacher's, mentor's and friend's recollection of Obama's single-minded
pursuit of high political office.
Understanding Obama As He Understands
Himself
Juris
Doctor
Obama
graduates from Harvard Law School in
1991. He supposedly received his Juris Doctor law degree,
magna cum laude -- although there are no records available to validate
this assertion
Law Review
Obama’s College Transcripts
Kevin D. Williamson
says count me among those who’d really like to get a good long look
at Barack Obama’s college transcripts -- not because I think they would
provide evidence for any of the crazy conspiracy talk that infests the
fringes of our political discourse, but simply because I want to know
what the man studied and what his grades were.
For instance, I’d
like to know whether he took any economics and how he did in those
classes. I’m also curious about what his literary studies were:
especially, I’d like to know whether the man who wrote two
self-important memoirs before he’d done much of anything interesting
with his life is sufficiently conversant with the concept of hubris that
he might take a moment for self-examination -- because, as the economy
slows and the government debt stacks up, the hubris is not the only
thing around here looking Greek and tragic.
Some of the people that Williamson
insults might think his reasons are frivolous.
The
point is, regardless of one's curiosity factor, The American People have
a right to know, and a need to know who Obama is, who sent him, and what
his agenda is.
The Student
Loans
Michelle Obama
tells of the collection calls they used to get from the "loan debt
people". Mrs. Obama clearly implies that the family's hardship was
caused merely by living in this hellhole that is America, usually right
after she mentions their onerous student loans.
However, the Obamas have thus far refused to validate these stories of
loan collection, despite requests from Chicago papers, or the source of
the debt. Obama's personal loan of $20,000 to his failed
Congressional race seems like a very likely culprit for any loan
collection calls they might have received. Thus, the Obamas should
provide the financial records that validate their claims about bill
collector calls, if they exist, and be honest about the source of the
debt. Certainly, the loan itself gives lie to the Obamas' stories
about their financial hardship due to their being "just regular people";
regular people don't loan themselves large sums of money for rash and
obviously doomed congressional races.
The most trivial, and yet in many ways the most revealing, of the Obama
campaign distortions involves their incessant invocation of their school
loan burdens. Yet the Chicago Tribune has asked them to produce
evidence of their school loans and they've not yet complied. Tellingly,
they made too much money since 2000 for their loan interest to be
deducted, so they can't even prove that they finally paid off the loans
in 2003, as they constantly claim.
Obama received a full scholarship to Occidental, which he rejected after
two years in favor of Columbia. Did he get a similar deal at
Columbia? What grants and loans did the Obamas receive while at
Harvard?
Again, these may seem like trivial amounts. However, the Obamas
have consistently presented their life story as a rags to riches tale in
which they triumphed over the odds just like ordinary people. But
they've offered no proof. Given Obama's career reliance on
patronage and kingmakers, the reality may be very different from their
touching campaign anecdotes.
Obama's Rabbi
The AP reported that attorney
Judson Miner, who was the communist mayor of Chicago, Harold
Washington's, lawyer, called Harvard to offer a job to a graduating student named
Barack Obama and didn’t expect to be showered with gratitude.
Still, he wasn’t expecting the reception he got. "You can leave
your name and take a number," the woman who answered the phone at the
Harvard Law Review said breezily. "You’re No. 647."
That was 1991 and even then Obama was a hot commodity. As the
first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama had his pick of
top law firms. He chose Miner’s Chicago civil rights firm, where
he represented community organizers, discrimination victims and black
voters trying to force a redrawing of city ward boundaries.
Besuki
Redux
"Good Luck, Barry!" the shout gave birth to Indonesia's
Obama
Fan Club established by the childhood friends and alumni of the
Democrat party's presidential candidate. (Photo at link)
The shout of support was given by 18 childhood friends of Barack Obama
from when he went to school at SDN 01 Menteng (Besuki Primary School),
Indonesia on Saturday, March 1st, 2008, at 2:30pm.
18 of the original 40 of Barack Obama's classmates gathered around in
the schoolyard against a backdrop on the roof that read "Good Luck
Barry".
Here's another
reunion,
with photos, of Barry Soetoro classmates in January, 2009.
Alma Matters
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.
What's
the story with Columbia? What was Obama up to in the years between
Occidental and Business International Corp? He gets back from
Pakistan and disappears. Why is it that nobody -- absolutely
nobody -- remembers Obama at Columbia College? Columbia College of
Columbia University is a small school. Current enrollment is
4,100.
BMOC
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.
Obama Should Release His Transcripts
George Joyce reminds us that, in a nationally televised educational
address next Tuesday, Barack Obama is
scheduled to, according to the Department of Education, "challenge
students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility
for their learning."
Concerns by many Americans that Obama’s
televised address to schoolchildren will simply represent a forum for
socialist indoctrination are wildly "overwrought" according to a Wall
Street Journal editorial today:
"America's children are not so
vulnerable that we need to slap an NC-17 rating on Presidential
speeches. Given how many minority children struggle in school, a
pep talk from the first African-American President could even do some
good."
While the WSJ editors criticized some of the Education
Department’s post speech lesson plans they also condemned those
"columnists who spy a conspiracy theory behind every Democrat" for
"spreading alarm."
Could a pep talk from the first
African-American President "do some good" for minority students as the
WSJ editors argue? Back in September of last year Steve Gilbert of
Sweetness and Light pondered over our first African-American president’s
prior academic performance:
"By his own admission, Obama spent
his final two years in high school skipping classes, playing basketball,
doing cocaine and getting drunk."
After high school, Gilbert
notes the following about Obama:
"Similarly, his admission to
Harvard Law School is highly questionable. Where are his LSAT
scores? And how does one graduate from Columbia without honors and
yet get accepted at Harvard Law? Lastly, his ascendency to the
Presidency of the Harvard Law school would appear to have also been a
case of blatant affirmative action, since the student Obama had only
written one legal paper -- and that was quite short and remarkably
undistinguished. So where are his grade transcripts?"
If
Confucius were to describe a democracy, he’d probably say that the
people are the "parents" and the rulers are the "children."
Children are normally required by their parents to be open and
transparent about their grades at school. Barack Obama has sealed
off his transcripts from the people.
Is it possible for the first
African-American president to inspire minority schoolchildren about
education when he continues to hide the record of his academic
performance?
Many of us had to work hard, set educational goals,
and take responsibility for our learning because our gender and skin
color actively worked against us on college admissions panels.
There were others however who could get drunk, do cocaine, skip class
and still make it to the Ivy League.
Lao Tzu once said that "you
gain by losing, lose by gaining." Now I think I know what he
means.
Obama’s Education Records To Remain Sealed
Lynn Sweet
is reporting that White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett said
Obama will not release his academic records, commenting a day after
Obama put out his "long form" birth certificate and Donald Trump decided
to press his luck by demanding Obama's college transcripts.
"We
know this is nonsense," Jarrett said in an interview on The Joe Madison
Show on SiriusXM on Thursday morning. "He is almost 50 years old.
And he is president of the United States, and I don't think anybody will
debate his intelligence, and so now we do need to get serious...let's
just get serious...get back to focusing on what's important.
Trump, on a Birther roll as he explores a 2012 GOP presidential run,
claimed credit for forcing Obama to finally release the "long form,"
which proved what had been proved before -- Obama was born in Hawaii.
Trump is now on another tangent, asking why Obama never released college
transcripts and wondering how he got into Occidental and Harvard.
Jarrett cuts through Trump's barely coded remarks.
click to play
Sweet plays the race card a
little more subtly than most "journalists," but there it is, nevertheless.
