Commander-in-chief vs. Nanny-in-chief, or two cheers for selfishness
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaEducation.htm
Very thorough examination of just the questions raised relating to EDUCATION, not much else. (although I found, for the first time, that Pajamas Media had found out about the Selective Service application, so we can cross that off the list, I imagine, of things that have not been found…albeit, I’m still unclear why it was never released, or if there is something to investigate further there)
See also, the following article from zombie:
http://www.zombietime.com/obama_and_the_weather_underground/
Journalistic frustration: The media hits a blank wall about Obama’s New York years
Many articles have already been published on this very topic: How Obama refuses to say much of anything about his time at Columbia, and how what little he has said contradicts other sources. In researching this article I had the exact same experience, and I’ll present some of my findings below, but first let’s take a quick look at what others have said.
The New York Times most famously published an article in 2007 entitled “Obama’s Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say,” which points out a great many inconsistencies in Obama’s meager testimony about his Columbia stint. He has portrayed himself then as having been solitary, studious, hard-working, and impoverished while at Columbia, but the Times notes with frustration,
Yet he 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. … His 1995 memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” weighs in at more than 450 pages. But he also exercised his writer’s prerogative to decide what to include or leave out. Now, as he presents himself to voters, a look at his years in New York – other people’s accounts and his own – suggests not only what he was like back then but how he chooses to be seen now. Some say he has taken some literary license in the telling of his story.
“Taken some literary license” is a nice way of saying: Lied. The Times then goes on to demonstrate many inconsistencies in Obama’s version of events.
The New York Observer points out that nobody on campus even remembers Obama being there at the time. Not one person.
Riehl World View concurs, and adds more puzzling details — or rather, absence of details.
The article about Obama at WikiCU, the online Columbia encyclopedia, even expresses mystification about their own alumnus. In what should be a definitive article about his years there, the encyclopedia says things like…
Obama claims to have participated to some extent in anti-apartheid activities with the Black Students Organization, but no one is quite sure.
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He majored in PoliSci, and claims to have concentrated in “International Relations”…
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Sources first differed on whether he wrote his senior thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament or the North-South debate on trade and the “new international economic order”. Later, it emerged that he had not really written an official thesis at all…
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It has been reported that Obama graduated without honors…
…and so forth. If the people at Columbia themselves seem to be so unsure about Obama’s time there, how can an outside journalist expect to find the truth?
While researching this article, I encountered the same blank wall as the journalists who came before me. And whenever I did dig up a fact, it only contradicted Obama’s own claims. The following sections illustrate some of these contradictions, and are only presented here for one reason: To show that Obama has never told the truth or the full story about his time at Columbia.
