@Ben 7:07am
It is not comforting that he thought anyone would be interested in his life when he had accomplished basically nothing to that point. In fact, he had accomplished so much nothing that he ended up writing a second volume. That he has attained such a high position and has done nothing with it and done nothing to justify it leaves us with little to go upon as to what he intends to accomplish other than making the US into his image… nothing.

Which is why I raise the question of why, if he was so interested in ‘selling’ his life story, why would be not update the alumni directory entry? I looked through for some names to see who was keeping current. Everyone that I knew had advanced beyond their home, pre-Columbian home address.

Is the Columbia connection just another discarded means to achieve his ends? We know he lived with the Pakistanis who were not students. Didn’t he have any friends among the student body? Classes are small, especially in the Liberal Arts – often as small as 10-15 pupils. For a natural politician, it would seem odd that he doesn’t retain any friendships or acquaintances from that time, at least none that we know of.

I still contend that it isn’t his grades that he is hiding, it is likely the Marxist, Franz Fanon inspired curriculum he studied. Pure conjecture – but we will only know if he releases his records.