5 Facts We Know About Obama’s College Years
- Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:06am by
Mytheos Holt
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President Barack Obama’s love of secrecy has, by this point, become a favorite rhetorical cudgel for the President’s opponents. And perhaps no set of documents is more coveted due to its total unavailability than the President’s college records. These documents have sparked all sorts of conspiracy theories.
To be fair, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, didn’t release his college records either. Those only became public after a leak from inside Yale University, not due to any consent on the part of the former President. All the same, Obama’s time at Columbia is filled with gaps, such as the question of whether his classmates really knew him, or the issue of his missing thesis, et cetera. At times, it is enough to make you wonder just what we do know about President Obama’s college years, hence the rush to speculate among those who oppose the president. If only there were something we knew, these seekers of truth cry.
Well, look no further. Below are five facts regarding Obama’s college years at Columbia, that are a starting point for the discussion.
#5. Barack Obama Did Attend Columbia University
This one is pretty much beyond dispute. Two of Obama’s former roommates, Sohale Siddiqi and Phil Boerner (the latter of whom was also an Occidental transfer) substantiate it, along with one of Obama’s former professors, Michael L. Baron (about whom more later). Politifact also uncovered and spoke to another alumna of Columbia who remembered Obama:
Cathie Currie, who currently teaches social psychology at Adelphi University, recalled Obama joining her group occasionally to play pick-up soccer games on the lawn outside the library. She was a graduate student at the time, and Obama was an undergrad.
He was a good soccer player, she said, even though basketball was his primary athletic passion. Obama also made an impression with his maturity and wisdom, she said. He talked about things like government for all the people, she said. In fact, Currie assumed because of Obama’s heady conversation that he was a graduate student as well.
Currie isn’t surprised that he was not widely-remembered by fellow Columbia classmates. “My sense of it was that he was keeping a low profile,” Currie said.
He seemed like someone who had made a decision to prioritize his studies, she said. “We’d ask him to go out with us for beers after soccer,” she said. “He seemed like he wanted to, but then he’d step back and say, ‘Sorry, I’m going to the library.’”
Moreover, Columbia was advertising President Obama’s status as a Columbia alum as early as 2005, before his run for the Presidency was even being talked up. He also is listed in the Columbia University Student Directory from the 1982-1983 school year.
Finally, one of the few pieces of Obama’s writing we have found from that period is an article in the Columbia Sundial, a now defunct weekly magazine, on nuclear disarmament dated March 10, 1983. If Obama was not attending the school, it is very unlikely that he would have bothered reading its publications, much less write an article for one of them.
#4. Barack Obama moved addresses while at Columbia
Two addresses are listed for Obama during his time in New York, one of which he shared with his aforementioned roommate Phil Boerner. The apartment Obama shared with Boerner is listed as Apartment 3E, located at 142 West 109th St, in New York.
Obama's first apartment building today
The New York Times reported that Obama gave up this particular address due to “lack of heat.” Boerner explains in an essay for Columbia’s alumni magazine:
Barack has said that he spent a lot of time in the library while at Columbia and one reason for this was that our apartment had irregular heat, and we didn’t enjoy hanging out there once the weather got cold. The radiators in our apartment were either stone cold, or, less often, blasted out such intense heat that we had to open the windows and let in freezing air just to cool things down. When the heat wasn’t on, we sometimes sat with sleeping bags or blankets wrapped around ourselves and read our school books. We also didn’t have regular hot water and sometimes used the Columbia gym for showers.
He later moved to Apartment 6A at 339 East 94th St, where he spent his senior year, according to the Times, which also noted that telephone directories from the early 1980s listed “B. Obama” at 339 East 94th Street. This address also features in Obama’s memoir in which he writes about chatting with his Puerto Rican neighbors about the Knicks or gunshots they had heard in the neighborhood.
Obama's second apartment building, today
#3. Obama‘s classmates didn’t see him as the type to become President
Obama‘s behavior at college wasn’t exactly what one would expect from a future President of the United States.Two different acquaintances of Obama’s speak to his introverted, eccentric and sensitive character – a far cry from the sort of gregarious bombast one expects from Presidential candidates. First, from Phil Boerner’s essay on Obama:
Barack wasn’t thinking about becoming President when he was in college; he wanted to be a writer. Barack is a good man — some might even call him a saint for tolerating my beginning banjo playing. Based on my six years of knowing him in college and the years immediately after, I can vouch that Barack is a man of character, and I trust him to do the right things when he is President.
And from a 2008 Associated Press story:
Andrew Roth knew Obama at Occidental and in New York. He speaks bluntly: “The thought, believe me, never crossed my mind that he would be our first black president.”
And yet, here he is, on the brink of the Democratic nomination. And he’s gotten there with the help of some of those friends from so long ago.
None of this is to say that Obama wasn’t political. As later points will show, he was that in spades. But Presidential material? Perhaps tellingly, few if any saw the White House in his cards.
#2. Obama was a strong supporter of nuclear disarmament
Remember Michael Baron, the Columbia professor who remembers Obama and corroborates his time at Columbia? Well, Prof. Baron seems to remember more than just President Obama’s presence in his courses. Apparently, the future president was quite the foreign policy buff and earned a solid A from Baron. Moreover, Obama is alleged to have written a lengthy “thesis” paper under Baron’s supervision – a thesis which is itself the subject of speculation, since there is no copy of it on file. Indeed, Baron has apparently been frantically searching his own personal files trying to find a copy.
What Baron does remember is the topic of the paper, which, when combined with over evidence, tells us quite a bit about college-age Obama’s particular academic interests and beliefs:
His former professor, Michael Baron, recalled in an interview with NBC News that Obama easily aced the year-long class. Baron described the paper as a “thesis” or “senior thesis” in several interviews, and said that Obama spent a year working on it. Baron recalls that the topic was nuclear negotiations with the Soviet Union.
“My recollection is that the paper was an analysis of the evolution of the arms reduction negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States,” Baron said in an e-mail. “At that time, a hot topic in foreign policy circles was finding a way in which each country could safely reduce the large arsenal of nuclear weapons pointed at the other … For U.S. policy makers in both political parties, the aim was not disarmament, but achieving deep reductions in the Soviet nuclear arsenal and keeping a substantial and permanent American advantage. As I remember it, the paper was about those negotiations, their tactics and chances for success. Barack got an A.”
Baron said that, even if he could find a copy of the paper, it would likely disappoint Obama’s critics. “The course was not a polemical course, it was a course in decision making and how decisions got made,” he said. “None of the papers in the class were controversial.”
Fortunately for Baron, a more polemic and controversial piece of writing by President Obama does survive – namely, the aforementioned article he wrote in the Columbia Sundial magazine.
Human Events summarized the article fairly accurately this way:
Obama deems the Reagan era defense buildup a “distorted priority” and “dead end track.”
Writing in the midst of the Cold War, Obama was nevertheless oblivious to the threat the Soviet Union then posed to the United States. Indeed, he does not even mention the Soviet Union in his article. Instead, Obama blames — you guessed it — America and its “twisted” world view for the “growing threat of war.”
If only Americans would change their thinking, he argues, the threat would subside. Give re-education a chance.
“Most students at Columbia do not have first hand knowledge of war,” he begins. “Military violence has been a vicarious experience, channeled into our minds through television film, and print . . . We know that wars have occurred, will occur, are occurring, but bringing such experiences down into our hearts and taking continual, tangible steps to prevent war, becomes a difficult task.”
That’s why campus peaceniks are so important. “Two groups on campus, Arms Race Alternatives (ARA) and Students Against Militarism (SAM) work within these mental limits to foster awareness and practical action necessary to counter the growing threat of war. Though the emphasis of the two groups differ, they share an aversion to current government policy.
“These groups, visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are throwing their weight into shifting America off the dead end track.”[...]
For Obama, the only thing wrong with the nuclear freeze movement is that it’s not ambitious enough. One “is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic and political issues, might be another instance of focusing on the symptoms of a problem instead of the disease itself.
Based on this description, it’s fair to conclude that Obama was a supporter of nuclear disarmament and a critic of the Reagan-era Defense buildup. Indeed, Obama sounds almost like a 60′s draft dodger in places of the piece, comparing student groups that are opposed to selective service registration to antiwar thinkers like Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Jefferson and Walt Whitman. Grandiose stuff, and also consistent with the President’s love of high flown rhetoric.
#1. Obama attended at least one socialist conference while at Columbia
The evidence for this one comes straight from the horse’s mouth – namely, Obama himself. On page 122 of “Dreams From My Father,” one discovers this passage (emphasis added):
Political discussions, the kind that at Occidental had once seemed so intense and purposeful, came to take on the flavor of the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union or the African cultural fairs that took place in Harlem and Brooklyn during the summers — a few of the many diversions New York had to offer, like going to a foreign film, or ice-skating at Rockefeller Center.
This is a quite candid admission by Obama, not least of all because it doesn’t appear to be him stretching the truth at all, unlike with other passages in his memoir. The New York Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) did, indeed, hold a conference at the architecture school Cooper Union in April of 1983, when Obama was still a senior. National Review contributor Stanley Kurtz, in his book “Radical In Chief,” documents there being precisely no such other events held by the DSA, and fingers Obama’s name on a DSA mailing list, as well as other material that suggests Obama preregistered for another such event. Obama‘s specifically named venue lends credence to the idea that he attended the 1983 Socialist Scholars’ Conference. To quote Kurtz:
Evidence strongly indicates that Cooper Union was not a regular location for socialist conferences, but was, on the contrary, a onetime venue. It was chosen as a site to attempt to revive the lapsed tradition of Socialist Scholars Conferences because of the Marx centennial, and its success led to a series of smaller socialist speaking events at CUNY Graduate Center, and full-scale socialist conferences at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Given all this, Obama’s reference to “socialist conferences” at Cooper Union surely means that we can reliably place him at the April 1983 Cooper Union Socialist Scholars Conference.
It should be noted that none of this is to imply that Obama holds the same views now that he held in college. Many people mature past their collegiate political views, though Kurtz’s book argues that Obama has not done so.
However, given that the President’s ideology did incline this way back then (even if it doesn’t anymore), then one can see where the Obama campaign might want to avoid further scrutiny of Obama’s time in college, since it would bolster (however unfairly) the narrative that the President is a dyed-in-the-wool Left wing radical. As Newsrealblog puts it:
The conferences in question were presented by the Democratic Socialists of America, self-described as the largest socialist organization in the country. Though there’s no specific mention or evidence of Obama attending any of these conferences, Kurtz has found Obama’s name on the organization’s conference mailing lists from that time frame. Kurtz also draws a conclusion that since the 1983 conference, timed with the anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, was practically a who’s-who of the American far Left, Obama would no doubt have been there.
At these conferences, Obama is certain to have had exposure to some scholars and philosophers who would influence his life in extremely consequential ways. The conferences featured speakers like Frances Fox Piven, whose strategy for collapsing capitalism made her a darling of the Left, and James Cone, who devised the notion of Black Liberation Theology.
The conferences also featured workshops like “Poverty In America,” “Social Issues,” “Black Theology and Marxist Thought,” “Race and Class in Marxism,” and “The Case For Transitional Reform.” (Yep, the conferences sure sound like a great way to spend time in New York.) Many of these workshops centered around the concepts of Alinskyite community organizing and working from within the system to push the political direction of the country toward the Left, to socialism.
How many more articles like that could be written if Obama’s college transcripts showed him regularly taking courses on this kind of material, or even one or two? Even one such article, however flimsy its substance, is probably too many for the Obama campaign.
Nevertheless, Obama’s time at Columbia is not a complete cipher. More information is desirable, to be sure, but the rush to find out more should not obscure the interesting elements of what we already know.
With reporting by George Thomas.
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Comments (425)
perry1980
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:05amTranscripts!
Report Post »we Want Transcripts!
SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:15amI will settle for his police record.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:28amThe great deceptor has a lot of help, he didn’t fool you by himself.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:31amAnd he was a foreign exchange student……
Report Post »bamanana
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:44amTranscripts would be a start but we all need to see his applications to these college. I would like to know if he entered college as a foreign student. We all know his idealogy, I’m sure his papers (if any) would reflect his socialist views. If he enterd college as a foreign national or if he entered as a citizen of the U.S. I want to know.
Report Post »richauthor
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:59amThe Obama transcripts will reveal that Obama entered Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard University as a foreign student. His locked-away passport records will verify this.
I attended college as an undergraduate and as a graduate during the times that Obama attended college and it was common knowledge that foreign students were given waiver after waiver (fees, tuition, and grades).
It will one day be proven that Obama lied about being a foreign student so that he could attend college. Then it will be up to conservative scholars to expose him, expunge his misdeeds as a Senator and President, rewrite history, and go after Pelosi, Reid, et al, who VERIFIED that he was an American citizen, and prosecute them all.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:09amWhy can’t we see these transcripts…For God‘s sake he’s our president, don’t we have the right to know his TOTAL background..for someone who is so up and up with the American people, he sure is hiding alot of background info…between this stuff and his “dirty” campainging…he’s really brought down the office of the presidency, has’t he?
Report Post »richauthor
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:14amTo back up my previous comments, go back and check out the autobiographical book, “The Penkovsky Papers,” by Col. Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet NKVD defector to the United States back in the 60s/70s. Col.Penkovsky provided details on how a Soviet agent would be entering the U.S. as an American citizen (youth), and climb the educational and political ladders to become a “mole” who would “take down” this great nation by installing Marxist principles.
Back in the 60s/70s, the Soviets referred to this mole as “Yuri.” The Kevin Costner/Gene Hackman movie, “No Way Out ” used this very theme, except the movie version featured “Yuri” (played by Costner) as a Naval officer assigned to the Pentagon.
Barack Hussein Obama is the Marxist “Yuri.”
Report Post »yiddishlion
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:48amHere’s a better and more accurate article on the subject;
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama%E2%80%99s-college-classmate-the-obama-scandal-is-at-columbia/
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:50amWith the money Romney has, $50 says Obama’s college transcripts become an “October surprise”. You can‘t tell me some low level records clerk wouldn’t slip him the records for a couple mil.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:55amI can‘t believe some rich Republican hasn’t bribed a person in the records office like theDemocrats did on Bush.
Report Post »BeckBuster
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:02pmReally YIDDISHLION, that other article is “more accurate”? Because that article is an op-ed that is based in the unknown and unfounded guessing. What you’re really saying is the above article is not smear and conspiracy based. Interviews and facts that dont put a sinister spook and Hitler mustache on Obama…right? Doesnt fit the Birther agenda much? Stick to the drivel op-eds? Silly Beck Bots. Your new pop-up book you ordered is in the mail
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:07pmI think they’re hiding the proof of being a foreign student
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:54pmThere was an article written about him by his publicist stating he was a foreign student. There is evidence that this is probably the case. In order to attend Indonesian public schools you must be a citizen of Indonesia. I believe he was BORN here, but renounced his citizenship and became Indonesian. Not sure if he ever changed it back (thus the social security card issues).
Report Post »bekhiet
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:54pmTranscripts! We want them!!!
Another reason affirmative action sucks.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:12pmI’ve never heard of anyone demanding college transcripts from a president until Obama took office. That doesn‘t mean it hasn’t happened, I just haven’t seen calls for it. I’d love to see them too because of all the speculation, but I really don’t think it matters a great deal. We know what Obama is about based on his policies and EO’s. That in itself is enough to want him out of office.
Report Post »shortnsweet
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:40pmReleasing transcripts will prove he was dumber than George w Bush!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:40pmI want to know if he was registered as a foreign student, received foreign aid, at either college/university.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:44pm@BeckBuster
Report Post »Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:50am
“. You want to examine his underwear too?” NAAAAAAAA !!! Just his
Application for Admission to Occidental College. no biggie, RIGHT ??
My records are all accessible and available, so should his…………….
Clive
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:49pmI think this is the old obama rope a dope, he’s going to wait for everyone to go crazy, and spout off conspiracy theories… and then he will release the transcripts, and make everyone look like a fool. mark my words.
And I can almost guarantee that he loves the fact that everyone is focusing on college transcript conspiracy, and not the reality of the state of our nation. “watch the other hand…”
Report Post »j_berry50
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:52pmObama had to turn in his Illinois law license or get disbarred; why?
Report Post »Revolution2012
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:05pmDoes anyone know if he signed up for selective service? All males are required to do this at age 18 or they are ineligable for federal aid of any kind.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:17pmand tax returns.
Report Post »husker661
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:39pmI think the problem with young adults today ‘and i use the term lightly’ is they never learn about war. They think that by talking it out with some of these loons war can be averted! Strength deters wars not causes.
Report Post »ChiefSerge
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:41pmThe points presented here by TheBlaze are pretty thin as evidence of BO being a student at Columbia.
Report Post »Most of it should be defined as hear say and the remainder is a stretch to link BO to Columbia. Definitely expects the reader to accept somethings on faith. If one had applied for a position at a business, and that business was wanting validation you attended a university listed on your resume the evidence provided here on the Blaze simply wouldn’t fly.
My reply is to the Blaze but I don’t see an obvious reply space.
MEANS2RESIST
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:51pmFact #6). barry hussien obama is a neo-marxist affirmative action failure commander & thief
Report Post »themdg
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:57pmSorry…he smoked his transcripts with his Tokerbuds.
Report Post »PeteHDO
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:09pmSelective Service records and the Social Security card issue alone should be a red flag for anyone vetting this President. Now take the totality of all of those issues plus the birth certificate, all college transcrpts and his own information supplied in his autobiographies should have left the Democratic Party plus the media with enough to void his candidacy. However this was not the case, hmmm, is the deck stacked against American’s and who manipulated those involved? The truth shall prevail? soon I hope.
Report Post »twaddleyou
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:37pmTax RETURNS!!! I want Romney’s tax returns. This election is razor thin. Romney NEEDS to release them to appeal to undecided voters. He won’t win otherwise.
Report Post »PJSK1508
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:54pmObama ia a disgrace to my country and for all it is suppose to represent. My conteniton is that it serves obama’s interest not to have the economy improve. You see the more he can make people dependent upon his handouts they will vote for him. Its the same approach as feeding starving people.. The gang in washington are all self serving for the most part. They will say and do anything for a vote. The back room dealings have been going on for years. And, the only way to stop this is possibly limited term in office. Obama and his henchmen and corrupt union are nothing more than chicago thugs. He is a pon and not qualified to run anything. All his records are sealed etc. He has sold the american people a bill of goods. Like hitler. I precict he will win re-election. He is going to buy it just like the kennedys. The miniorities, unions and people like soros the big money guys will win. Truly tragic. Our enemies just have to sit back and wait. America is destroying ourselves from within. And, people like obama with the help of those around him will see to it.
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:57pmThe bottom line is that is a no win situation for Mr Romney. I don‘t know what people are looking for in Mr Obama’s past from over 30 years ago will help when we don’t know what is in those tax
returns. This looks like a “witch hunt” against our President but could easily backfire. It seems like people here just want to attack the President without any concern for the election.
I have posted this earlier but I have not seen it so I will post it again. Everything you ever wanted to know about President Obama’s sealed records.
http://factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/
Report Post »Old Tex
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:10pmI want his birth certificate and his passport when he went to Pakistan
Report Post »Old Tex
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:13pmHe came to Occidental College as a FOREIGN student ( Barry Soetoro ) from Indonesia….. Not only is he a liar …..but also a fraudster….
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:26pmOLDTEX
Barkin’ up the wrong tree here. It is highly unlikely he entered as a foreign
student since his high scholl transcripts were from Hawaii. Either way I
don’t think the people care. As far as his passport here is your answer
from fact check.org
Obama’s passport. There’s no reason to think Obama used anything
Report Post »but the then-current version of his U.S. passport when he traveled to
Pakistan as a student in 1981. Some who questioned Obama’s birthplace
made baseless claims that Pakistan had banned U.S. citizens from
visiting in 1981, and speculated that he must have used an Indonesian
passport. But they were quite wrong. There was no such travel ban.
In fact, the New York Times published a travel piece that year
describing the author’s own visit to Lahore, and the U.S. consul later
wrote a letter to the Times saying he would “welcome an influx of
Americans” and giving advice on how to make the journey.
socalnative
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:29pmWe would learn more from his actual college application, ie nationality, financial support, religion. Do not care about his grades either but his written adventures would be all telling as well.
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:01pmShow us your transcripts, explain your social security number & trip to Pakistan-
that is what Romney needs to question because that is what America wants to know.
The media are all Obama’s waterboys.
Now, review again, his stance on war:
“Most students at Columbia do not have first hand knowledge of war,” he begins. “Military violence has been a vicarious experience, channeled into our minds through television film, & print . . . We know that wars have occurred, will occur, are occurring, but bringing such experiences down into our hearts & taking continual, tangible steps to prevent war, becomes a difficult task.”
What would you know about war, Idiot ?
You feign support for our soldiers & then you impede their ability to vote in elections.
You are a 2-headed snake.
Paraphrasing Gen. Schwartzkopf, during the Gulf war-
he said, “Contrary to popular belief, Generals are the last ones who want to go to war,
we know, see & deal with the devastation firsthand.
We know the horrors of it.
When dealing with despicable enemies, after every measure has been taken & failed,
the only option left IS war & it is always the last option.”
So, Oblameo thinks he can solve everything peacefully.
Report Post »He can’t even deal with our most trusted allies in peaceful, mannerly ways.
The WAR he chooses is class warfare, he’s divided this country, in every way,
bludgeoned & bloody we are
but stronger in our defense of America !
He MUST go !
The-Monk
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:07pm@Justangry
Sorry to hear about the health issue. Anything I can do? I know a lot about back (spine) issues and cancer.
Report Post »Salamander
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Report Post »Nearcon
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:28pmRICHAUTHOR has it about right, was he a foreign exchange student? The entire web of lies and deceit falls apart if this can be proven.
Report Post »caveman74
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:06pmlets see how the poor son of a hippie paid for it. release his financials for colombia (and harvord for that matter). I have heard he got scholorships as a foreigner
Report Post »KIOTI-TEXAS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:25pmWhere did Hussein Obama get the money, to attend a college like this. Is the question?Did the tax payers pay his way?Why is he fighting us to know?I think his college was payed for by some communist country that he loves,that’s what Harry Reid said……………
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:30pmUmmm yes RGFROMTEXAS…you tried this same stunt yesterday. Your link merely plays semantics with the word “sealed” (Obama has taken legal recourse to keep his college records sealed). You site does not present the college records at all…..why? BECAUSE OBAMA HAS TAKEN LEGAL RECOURSE TO HAVE THEM SEALED..YOU IDIOT!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:31pmRGFROMTEXAS….stop offering your silly site the merely plays word games with the word “sealed” AND SHOW THE COLLEGE RECORDS IF THEY’RE NOT SEALED!!!! WHERE ARE THEY CHAMP?
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:36pmJust want “it” gone ..
Report Post »ainthurtinnobody
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:05pmWhat does a transcript really matter. So what if he made some C‘s or B’s might just mean he’s not a robot memorizing info just to past tests. And what does it matter if he used his dual citizenship to help a poor boy pay for college. He didn’t kill anyone to do it and he came out pretty successful for a young man whether you like him or not. A little creative admission work.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:25pmScuttle butt says Obamas tuition was paid for by the Saudi Royal family which would explain why he bowed down to the King in his first visit to the country as POTUS. I would also speculate that the trip to Pakistan was used as the “contact” point for the Saudis to evaluate this person as to his worthiness to recieve funding a few years later.
I can’t prove this and it could be 100% wrong but this scenario seems to explain some rather odd behavior patterns that came to light during the early days of this admin (The Cairo speech, the reset with Russia, the really odd photo of Obama bowing to Saudi King etc…).
Let’s not forget that the HI building that houses passport records was broken into …the data taken ( a specific week and year was stolen) happened to include Obamas application etc…a coincidence ? I doubt it.
The truth is the general public has nothing from this mans past other than second or third hand heresay, very few concrete hard copes of anything verfiable as legit and yet those that question this appalling lack of a paper trail are labelled as fringe lunatics. Really….the lunatics IMO are the ones that swallow the MSM line that this man is who he says he is (which in reality is a composite he himself created with the help of leftist ghost writers).
Report Post »Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:26pmI want to see his citizenship papers after he came back to the US from Indonesia where he was a public school student and would therefore be required to be an Indonesian citizen to attend there. The biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people and the Main Sleaze Media are trying to keep it covered up.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:51pmI’m Obama girl, in Obama world.
I am jobless. It’s horrific.
Ate my dog for lunch, no work anywhere.
He’s a liar, the world’s on fire.
I’m Mitt Romney, you should have chose me.
I’m Obama girl, in Obama world.
He’s a Socialist, I missed the obvious.
Ate a stray for lunch, no work anywhere.
He’s a liar, the world’s on fire.
He’s the lord, dictator; divisive, hate and fear.
There’s no jobs anywhere.
You can see, he dishonestly, destroyed the economy.
If you knew, you’re a fool, naughty-naughty
He is rich, we are poor,
Obama won, unemployment soared.
I’m Obama girl, Obama world.
He’s a Socialist, I missed the obvious.
Ate a stray for lunch, no work anywhere.
He’s a liar, the world’s on fire.
I’m Mitt Romney, should have chose me.
Sold your soul, didn’t know, he’d wreck the economy,
President, now a tyrant, he would do as he pleased.
History, it repeats, thanks to Liberal elites,
Write more laws, they’ll applaud, kiss their feet.
He is rich, we are poor,
Obama won, unemployment soared.
I’m Obama girl, in Obama world.
I am jobless. It’s horrific.
Ate my dog for lunch, food lines everywhere,
Obama-nation, an abomination.
WE WILL, WE WILL VOTE YOU (OUT)
Report Post »WE WILL, WE WILL VOTE YOU (OUT)
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chrisden
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:48pmTranscripts would be great, so would passport records. I lived in Djakarta Indonesia when Obama was there and I went to the international school where all American students went. Obama went to the Indonesian school and only Indonesian nationals were allowed to go to those schools. Makes me wonder why he didn’t go to the international school. Could have been the cost.
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:55pmI would like the school transcripts along with how his education was paid for…. cuz I am leaning to that he got foreign student aid….
Report Post »sophillyjimmy
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:45amI even settle just for his college applications just to see if he aplied for foreign student grants and loans, if he did, which I think he did, then his last 4 years as president will be null and void and in November he will be off the ballot and his mug shot would be in the media.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 2:14amWhere is Wikileaks? They should be able to get all the applications and transcripts. If they can’t, then they must have had inside help with everything else but they don’t want to help get this because they are protecting Obama.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 2:25amWe don’t know jack about this fraud-in-chief, because he’s sealed up all his college transcripts.
Report Post »graybuffalo
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:08amAnd how or who financed his education (Middle East financed?). Or was he “affirmative action?” And what passport he traveled under. And what religion was listed – if any. And who knew him during his high school years.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:23amNo one who acts and behaves like him has a clean police record.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:36amWho woudda thunk? Suddenly all these Columbia lefties are coming out to vouch for Obama. Now I’m a believer. Just listen to this: “Barack…wanted to be a writer”. Jack@ss liar. That cretin’s writing skills are limited to signing executive orders — or anything someone else has written for him.
Hey, Barack, it seems oddly incongruous that as an undergrad student you were vastly familiar with the commie “anti-war” organizations of the day, yet remained incognizant of the fact that our nation comprises fifty states. Also, you fiercely opposed the “relentless…spread of militarism in the country,” but did Soviet militarism concern you back then, Barack? What about Islamist militarism now, Hussein?
Here’s my middle digit. Scr*w Columbia University and all the America-haters who lie on your behalf.
Report Post »geotrain
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:03amVery Simple his name is Barry Satara and his real father is Frank Marshal Davis, don’t believe look at the resemblance at <web web web dot obamasrealfather com
Report Post »Marine25
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:35amThe commentary here shows that the dawning inevitability of his re-election has made the dumb, dumber.
Report Post »RubberBandEffect
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 10:22amWe‘ll trade Obama’s college transcripts for Romney’s tax returns. Deal?
Report Post »txdave22
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:49amINTRADE, UK oddsmaker, never wrong with US presidential elections, shows Obama 21 points
ahead of mittens, likely the most realistic poll you can find, though most show Obama leading
2012 Presidential Election Winner (Individual) (22 Markets)
Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012
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Mitt Romney to be elected President in 2012
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TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:03am“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
Report Post »M-Theory
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:52pm…or rather, should be, “I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate [allowed Bill Ayers to write] in the memoir he brilliantly didn’t pen, “Dreams From My Father.”
Report Post »the_system_disconnect
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:00amWe will VOTE FOR ROMNEY in 2012 because we know that certainly 0bama’s way is unsustainable without undo stress upon our people and our liberties. Small government is the only sustainable way to continue.
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:36amExcellent.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:09pmWhat has Romney said or done that makes you think that he’ll ease the stress on our liberties? Seems apparent to me that the only thing the, so called, right and left agree on is stripping us of our freedom. I mean, I’ll buy that Romney energy policy sounds better than Obamas and his call for ending stifling regulations on business is a step on the right direction, but he seems to have issues with freedom as much as Obama does. Civil liberties is the number one issue I think is important, which is why I’ve been saying I see no difference between the two candidates.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:16pmTake a look at his governor’s record and than say it again.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:24pmso @JustAngry
you admit Romney is better, even by a bit, but you won’t vote for him because there are some issues that he and Obama might not be far enough apart from each other for your taste???
that sounds lame….sort of like RP supporters…“our guy or damn you all” …“we get everything we want or screw the country”…. those types of mentalities are destructive to yourself, the country, and the cause you support…
I admit that Romney IS NOT my guy…there are WAY too many things that he is too soft on for me… but Romney at least will not veto what a more conservative leaning House and HOPEFULLY more conservative leaning Senate being elected as well…will put forth for the President’s signature…
Obama will NEVER sign a Repeal Obamacare bill even if passed by both houses of Congress..
Report Post »Obama will NEVER allow a gutting of the EPA, DOEd, DOE, FDA, Freddie and Fannie, HHS, HUD but at least Romney will no prevent them if the Congress passes them…
Romney might not be perfect but he is a capitalist and believes in the system..even if not as conservative as we would like…if Congress starts to slash budgets and remove entire departments and entities…Romney will go along with it…just as a CEO has to go along with the Shareholders…he knows that if the economy booms, reelection is a given…
GeorgeRodgersClark
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:06pmJust Angry- We have had 43 presidents, and probably we have lost a little freedom with each, but there has never been one that took away freedoms as fast as Obama. Romney, like anyone, has his faults, but this country cannot stand four more years of Obama. The best thing we can do on election day is vote for the best man. Then between elections, we must stay politically active and informed, while trying to find better and better representatives. There is no perfect candidate, just the best one.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:07pmUm, those are only the things that make Romney better than Obama. What makes him worse, in my oppinion, is his foreign policy and adivsors on the matter. (17 of 24 of them were Bush’s) I’ve heard their lies before and want no part of it, especially since I believe these freaks will get us into a world war, which would more than offset any ecomic gains made by his rational ideas.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:44pmDomestic policy will have to become Romneys focal point…without a strong economy the money for foreign policy forays is markedly reduced. The spending trajectory the Dems/Leftists have established as the new baseline is in no uncertain terms, ruinous, period. Another term for Zero will complete the [lan set forward by Cloward and Piven…..so the choice is pretty easy to make…vote for Obama (or Paul or anyone else) and you vite for economic collapse or you vite for Romney and begin the process of scaling everything back…..in the end Romney will have no choice but to scale back…Obama if given the chance will finish what he started.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:06pm@Puddleduck, That‘s assuming Romney doesn’t want the same thing as Obama. I think all of them want their NWO. I believe that’s why the CFR owned media rammed him down our throats. To stack the deck to ensure that no matter what it will proceed as scheduled.
Report Post »graybuffalo
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:30amAlbeit, I am not enamored by Romney, I would take 10,000 Romneys over one Obama. The “true” Obama will be unleashed in a second term. Heaven help us all if that should happen. His agenda is clear and it is based upon the Cloward-Piven Strategy developed at Columbia by two Marxist Professors of whom the strategy is named. The plan calls for the destruction of capitalism in America by swelling the welfare rolls to the point of collapsing our economy and then implementing socialism by nationalizing many private institutions. Cloward and Piven studied Saul Alinsky just like Hillary Clinton and President Obama.Alinsky is considered to be the founder of modern community organizing in America. Alinsky’s teachings influenced Obama early in his career as a community organizer on the far South Side of Chicago. Obama worked for Gerald Kellman’s Developing Communities Project where he learned and taught Alinsky’s methods for community organizing. Obama would later work for ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
According to Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, ACORN is a modern successor of the radical 1960’s “New Left” and holds a “1960’s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism” to be implemented through “undisguised authoritarian socialism.”
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:59amObama,and I are the same age, though I was born earlier in the year. We graduated the same year. What I want to know is how, and why, did he visit Pakistan in 1981? How did he get a passport to a country that no one else in America could get, and was allowed to visit in 1981 when no one else in America was allowed to?
Report Post »djeffcoat
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:27amMight be easier for a foreign student to get into Pakistan. I’m just saying.
This creep is sinister. We need to get rid of him in November.
Report Post »GrayPanther
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:44amYou can bet a Communist organization was covering his costs. He was being prepared for politics in America since high school. Based on what we know and BHO’s views and policies I assure you his past has been carefully monitored and guided. I am reminded how the Democrats were successful in undermining Joe McCarthy who had FBI files on hundreds of state department officials who were suspected Communists. Our government is full of Communist or Communist sympathizers today
Report Post »M-Theory
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:55pm@Graypanther, read Jack Cashill’s book “Deconstructing Obama” in which he says there was a Saudi Prince funding at the very least, his Harvard education.
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:22pmANONYOUS T IRREVERENT
Here is the Answer to your question from fact check.org
There’s no reason to think Obama used anything but the then-current
Report Post »version of his U.S. passport when he traveled to Pakistan as a student
in 1981. Some who questioned Obama’s birthplace made baseless
claims that Pakistan had banned U.S. citizens from visiting in 1981,
and speculated that he must have used an Indonesian passport.
But they were quite wrong. There was no such travel ban.
In fact, the New York Times published a travel piece that year
describing the author’s own visit to Lahore, and the U.S. consul
later wrote a letter to the Times saying he would “welcome an
influx of Americans” and giving advice on how to make the journey.
Ded-Bred
Posted on August 10, 2012 at 2:54amThis article shows less than 5 people remember him from Columbia? He wrote 1 paper n a subset rag-zne, & you brilliant newshounds are satisfied ? I don’t believe he went to school there. If I found out the Prez of USA was in my grad class….or 1st grade I’d dig. You don’t find it odd so few saw him “on campus”, but NEVER in a classroom?
Report Post »jackact
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:59amFact#1: Obama’s college transcripts are a closely guarded federal government secret.
Report Post »Fact#2: Obama’s college transcripts are a closely guarded federal government secret.
Fact#3: Obama’s college transcripts are a closely guarded federal government secret.
Fact#4: Obama’s college transcripts are a closely guarded federal government secret.
Fact#5: Obama scored very poor grades in college (George Bush) did considerably better which is why……Obama’s college transcripts are a closely guarded federal government secret !!!
schroeder123
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:40amThere has to be a way to find out. Hack into the school computer or something.
Report Post »Ya think they took everything ? and locked it up ? Gotta be a way.
Unless they forged everything like his Birth Certificate.
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:47amHow in the hell are you gonna learn anything when you‘re back in your dorm room sacrificin’ chickens?
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:48pmJack, I‘ll bet that our nuclear codes aren’t nearly as guarded as obama’s past. All the leaks coming out of this WH are to make him look good, obviously his background doesn’t. It boggles your mind to think that Mitt Romney and BO are even close. All the crap that is coming out daily (on policy) should make Liberals afraid. God help us all against this evil.
Report Post »toto
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:12pmBelieve there is much more to it than that, but they will have had a lot of time to get all the forgeries down pat. Pray someone in the future spills the beans if they are not all dead. Probably the business Obama will go into once he’s out of the White House.
Report Post »Brianroy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:58amMytheos, on you Fact #5, you do not address that Barack did not attend Columbia in 1981-1982, and is NOT listed in the Columbia University directory for that year. Why?
Report Post »On Fact #4, just because Obama lived in the general area of Columbia University, what does the address tell us other than he lived near Columbia University? What were the specific dates he resided near Columbia University?
On Fact # 3 you offer NO evidence Boerner or Roth attended Columbia WITH Obama, just that they might have known him from the area can be equally inferred.
On Fact #2 Obama indeed had a single article in Sundial in March 1983. That places him there for one semester. Further, having just one educator of just one Remedial Political Activism Class (one for the backward and affirmative action slow ones needing a hand up) who handed out straight A’s on echoing his own sentiments, means very little. What of the other 3 semesters, and Obama’s other classes and grades? He did NOT get honors at Columbia, even if others did his homework. On fact #1, just because Obama had a library card and a University pass to attend on Campus socialist conferences, that proves exactly what? He used the gym alot for showers rather than at home. Did he spend more time playing basketball and watching other guys in the showers rather than attending classes? Your 5 facts aren’t even facts, but speculation based on hope and wishful thinking; and offer us nothing than more bobble-heading for Obama propag
WhatsUp
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:37amExcellent summation BrianRoy. . .not to mention, just because someone played soccer with him, does not conclusively prove he went to Columbia–he could have been simply hanging around the campus and joined in. Additionally, we know, simply by his actions in the WH, that he has socialist leanings. His transcripts are necessary not so much to see what type of grades he received, but to see what type of classes he took–were they only the classes required to receive a diploma or did he take additional/electives that appealed to his socialist side?
This is not a matter of privacy. . . The govt knows virtually everything about all of us regular folks, why then shouldn’t we know everything about the person in the WH who puports to be POTUS? If BHO has nothing to hide, then why continue to conceal his past?
Report Post »J144
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:42amWell said. If one person says something about Obama, that does not make it fact. You may be able to establish it as a fact that they said it, but establishing what they said to be fact, that requires a lot more work. This is a leftest tactic. I.E. One person saying what they wish to be true makes it a fact, regardless of video or other evidence. I read this article expecting facts. I ended up skimming it when it became apparent that the authors definition of facts was not the same as Websters.
Report Post »OpenTheirEyes
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:25pmI would not jump to the conclusion the Sundial article is genuine. Look at both the clipped image in the article above and the linked PDF. The title of the article, “Breaking the War Mentality” is not square and align to the picture above. In addition the title ‘bleeds’ into the column margin. Sure, this is a microfiche scanned image and other text is skewed but all other photos and text at least are skewed with the same perspective and line up. With the limited observation of this one source – if this is supposed to be proof that Obama attended Columbia then I would put forth the theory that these images are PhotoShop’ed to include the title with his name. Needs more research to make any conclusion.
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:17pmMy God people…..everything is a conspiricy with you. You are rediculous.
It is proven he went there for two years. He did a thesis on Nuclear
Armament. Going back 30 years just in hope of finding something
to twist to your way is showing desperation in winning this November.
If these records came out (good or bad) it would force Romney to release
his tax returns and that could be a disaster.
From factcheck.org.
Columbia University proudly claims Obama as a 1983 graduate.
Report Post »The university magazine Columbia College Today profiled him as
far back as 2005, after he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
KIOTI-TEXAS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:50pmHarry Reid,,,,, said you were right on this one………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Report Post »cosmic dogma
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:58amHe never graduated. Why won’t he open his records. His college grad certificate is fake.
Report Post »Sosorryforyou
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:42pmColumbia has verified that Pres. Obama graduated from their University.
Report Post »Remy Sheppard
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:57am“Obama also made an impression with his maturity and wisdom, she said. He talked about things like government for all the people, she said. ”
^Seems legit. Nothing suspicious about that at all. I regularly speak of classmates I am slightly acquainted with in a similar, doting, regal fashion.
Report Post »HappyHaloHousewife
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:14amChuckling!!!
Report Post »Chamberjac
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:08pmI really don’t give a flip about his grades good or bad, What I do care about his his fraudulent activities, such as his stolen SS#, his fraudulently created selective service registration and the fraud committed if he entered any school in the US under a foreign student status. If he accepted foreign student grants then he either defrauded the government or he is actually a foreigner and illegal alien. Either way he belongs in prison. I want answers and I am sick and tired of Beck covering for him. I am also sick and tired of the ridicule of Joe Arpaio. The only man in this country with the guts to follow up on the Fraud In Chief. I will not support Beck in any of his rally’s or TV until he apologizes for his rudeness and ridicule toward Joe Arpaio and Mike Zullo.
Report Post »richauthor
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:40pmAdd your comments
Report Post »topperj
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:55amEven if he did release his college records, et al, they would probably be forgeries, just like his “birth” certificate. This will come to no good end. There’s enough in the record we know, let’s deal with that.
Report Post »eramthgin
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:54amAnyone want to bet that BHO declared himself to be a foreign exchange student?
Report Post »jp2feminist
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:01amBingo!
Report Post »ugottabekidding
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:48amWhat I want to see is him disappearing from the White House.
Report Post »OneWithGodistheMajority
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:45amObama regime/Dems = party of Lucifer I don’t say this lightly. Evil has always been among us but now it has a face
Report Post »Shakemeawake
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:44amWe know what is on his college records, a good source has already told us what is in them. So just like Harry Reid says “what are you hiding Mr. President?”.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:12amI would like to see his college records.
I suspect that he was given As by people like former professor, Michael Baron, because he had the right political views. I would like to see ACT or SAT scores, how he registered for school (foreigner or citizen) & who paid for his education. I would like to see his full college transcripts. Getting As in course where the faculty is intensely ideological & grading is subjective does not prove that one is intelligent.
I believe that Obama often use a sort of rope a dope tactic. He holds out on giving in formation. It would put him in a bad light if he gave out information on his record. He would seem m as average or subpar, which many people suspect.
The longer he holds out the more people speculate until there are enough that suspect the worst that his supported pick those comments & then when the record is released it is more about how they are wrong than how subpar or lackluster his past performances were.
All of Obama’s records need to be published. This is the man who has unsealed the divorce proceeedings of his opponent nd has put Senator “Carlton Ritz” Reid up to lying about Romney.
Report Post »Ruff Razor
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:36pmAsk the Professor Michael Baron who else was in the same class as obama. Maybe he could search through his records so we could interview them as well……. To ascertain if obama, was even a student as there are no records to prove he was. I”ll bet that the Professor all of a sudden has become a very rich man for his statements. That’s how it works folks!
Report Post »DJR
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:41amNo one hides a record they’re proud of.
Report Post »TAXEVERYONE
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:45amWe’re any dogs reported missing while he was there?
Report Post »RGFROMTEXAS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:35pmThank you Mitt Romney
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:36amWell IF he took ECONOMICS—-He flunked.
Report Post »OMG 2012
CatB
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:46am# 2 … seems he is only interested in disarming the UNITED STATES!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:29amWe also know he was a foreign exchange student……
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:34amRon Paul followers…..
Where are you slamming 0bama and demanding to see his college records while converting the 0bama-supporting trolls to your cause?
Report Post »merd01
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:56pmRon Paul followers…..
Where are you slamming 0bama and demanding to see his college records while converting the 0bama-supporting trolls to your cause?
They are too busy trying to get Paul on the RNC ballot and bash Romney to understand what they are really doing to the United States of America–getting Obama re-elected, and ultimately destroying the country they claim to love.
Report Post »BuckeyeFraz
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:07amWay to go, knuckleheads. By the time that you realize that libertarians are generally “on your side” and far more principled versions of yourself, it’ll be far too late. Keep up that antagonism, and my principled vote WILL go towards a candidate on the Libertarian ticket, or for a Ron Paul write-in. This “lesser of two evils” crap must stop for the sake of our country.
Report Post »Mike Benton
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:33amWhat he was then is one thing; it is what he is now that scares me. He is a socialist who never worked a day in his life.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:30amI’m sure Barry really enjoyed the Columbia gym showers.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:35amYeah when Barry was in there the other guys had to back out of the shower.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:37amDid he and Solinsky get close? Oh wait a moment, he never played football unless you use the European definition of football.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:46amYou sure didn’t want to drop the soap Slayer.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:26amI do not need to see anything else from Obama. Folks are watching a magician at work.
Report Post »Right of Right
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:09pmHe is just a puppet. However, if he did forge his way through college he should be brought up on charges,and then impeached.
Report Post »HopeInChrist
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:22amHow did he attend Columbia, as a foreign exchange student (Indonesia) or as a US citizen (then how was this paid for)?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:42amThanks to a complicit MSM, we may never know. The lack of a neutral press is killing this country as much as an apathetic population.
Report Post »ONLY4UANDME
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:42amHis grandparents and mother worked for the CIA. That’s why his mom spent more time living in communist countries than here. Tim Geithner’s parents worked for the CIA also. Hmmm, what a small world.
http://www.joeclarke.net/2010/08/obamas-mother-fathers-cia-agents-fought.html
I believe this is why all his (records) have been seeled so well.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:59amI’m not buying that Only. If his parents and grandparents were anticommunist, cold war crusaders, he would have let us all know about it.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:08amGood god, if it was a cia thing, his records would be fake, but fully released, the CIA/NSA does a great job of CYA and aren’t afraid to let anyone dig in them as much as they want. I was a co-op student for the NSA in college, and they provided me a back story, that isn’t true, but no matter how hard you dig, you will think it is.
Report Post »HappyHaloHousewife
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:11amExactly so, Gonzo.
Report Post »Sosorryforyou
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:47pmAs a U.S. citizen. And he has said that his Aunt helped with some of the tuition. The rest I’m sure he got the regular way, through student loans, Pell Grants, etc. Just the same way I paid for my schooling in the 1980s.
Report Post »johnsnare
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:05pmHis father, Franklin Marshall Davis,paid for the tuition.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:22amPLEASE READ:
http://jnormanii.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/george-soros-author-of-the-future-collapse-of-america/
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:35amThank you!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:52amWhat I don’t understand is that Soros has vowed to destroy America, yet he is allowed to stay here? If I vowed to destroy someone or something, do you think DHS would be kicking in my doors and carrying me way?
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:44pmIN HIS OWN WORDS, George Soros, it’s a GAME HE PLAYS.
He’s destroyed countries before (Yugoslovia & Czhecoslavakia) and
NOW his sites are on AMERICA.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/williams/101112
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:22amOK so what? The only reason OWEbama spent tons of money to seal these and other records is because they would prove that he is ineligible to be President of the U.S. Non-U.S. citizen and applied to Columbia as a FOREIGN student.
I lived in Indonesia and understand Islam a bit better than the average bear– If you’re born Muslim or adopted by a Muslim—YOU ARE A MUSLIM. Leaving the faith is under threat of DEATH!
The press is complicit in hiding the true facts of this fraud and history will prove that Owebama successfully pulled the wool over the eyes of millions of foolish Americans who fell hook, line and sinker for the “Hope and Change” crap.
Better right the wrong in November – OR American will be lost forever.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:19amSo he attended the university and is known to have supported the Soviet Union and opposed the military…which most of us have figured out already given his absolute love of Marxist-Socialist theory and insane ideology, his hatered for the free market, capitalism, and the Republic and our very own Constitiution.
His anti-military ties are not only from his Marxist past, but also the anti-colonialism past he has chosen to embrace as taught to him by his mentors.
What I want to know is what else is being hidden away or has been purged from the records; such as the missing thesis papers, assuming they even existed, and so much more. Why will Obama not allow them to be unsealed and released?
Is it just more distractions to use against his opponents and shield his real moves in the shadows? Or is there something in place to bring down his Presidency once and for all?
Report Post »tmb2bjb
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:54amI don’t think we need to see anymore, his actions speak volumes. I’d like to see his records for one reason only…show that he was ineligible to be president and (after he is removed) lose his pension and benefits just like anyone else would suffer if they criminally got a position they were not eligible for. Why not? It‘s a job isn’t it and he lied to get it. The charade he perpetrated on the American people is shameful, but more shameful is the fact that we have people who fell right into it. A valuable result of his presidency…the closet Marxist/Socialist/Commies in Congress and the Senate were OUTED and we should use that information at the polls to get rid of them also. Americans must use their influence and the information exposed during O’s administration to help each other get our country back on track. First step…November, get him and his communists out of the government. You can say what you will about Romney, but one thing is for sure he is not a traitor.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:16amI understand why this info is important, but what will it accomplish if it doesn’t get out to the mainstream media to show the rest of the nation?
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:26amGBTV and Fox have been instrumental in forcing the MSM to acknowledge other issues that they would have otherwise NEVER addressed—
Gotta start somewhere, N’est pas?
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:45amThe Emperor’s New Clothes and haircut. ‘Just a little trim around the horns, please…’
Report Post »Cat_Ion
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:07pmIts up to you — to each of us — as patriots to get the information out there…
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:15amI want to see ALL his college records!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:20amHe demands that Romney show all of HIS records; and so Romney should require Obama to do the same.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:41amI think Romney is waiting until after the RNC to do just that. I don’t believe he wants to distract from the campaign at this moment. Doing so after the convention will leave it fresh in the minds of the voters even if nothing happens. But at least Romeny will be on the offenseive and not the defensive. The Dems are always on offense and when they have go defensive they self destruct.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:43amYes .. but don’t trust Obama to show his first …. they have to be released to a third party at the SAME time.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:46amAgree… and all his travel records, passports (various and sundry names thereon), social security numbers (various and sundry), etc., etc.
Report Post »walkintruth
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:16pmI think that Donald Trump is going to announce something big at the convention. He spoke about it last night. Maybe it will be related to this. Let’s hope they have something worthwhile.
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