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Obama at Columbia University<\/h1>\n
___________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n Posted on February 16, 2010 , Updated on February 23, 2010 , Corrected on March 16, 2010<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> Is it true that nobody remembers Obama attending Columbia University?<\/strong><\/p>\n A:<\/strong> At least one of his classmates remembers him well, and the university proudly claims Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n FULL QUESTION<\/strong><\/p>\n Can you check this out and see if it is true?<\/p>\n Thank you!<\/p>\n I have always wondered why NO ONE ever came forward from Obama\u2019s past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. NO ONE, not one person has ever come forward from his past. VERY VERY STRANGE. FULL ANSWER<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019re not sure why, but this false claim has been forwarded widely in recent days, judging by the number of queries we\u2019ve received.<\/p>\n Barack Obama was a transfer student from California\u2019s Occidental College<\/a> when he came to Columbia University in 1981 as a 20-year-old junior. More than 20,000 students<\/a> currently attend Columbia. The enrollment in the early \u201980s might have been lower, but not everybody would have met or remembered Obama. And it\u2019s absolutely untrue that “not one person has ever come forward” from his years there, or that he is “the man who wasn\u2019t there.”<\/p>\n Columbia University proudly claims Obama<\/a> as a 1983 graduate. The university magazine Columbia College Today<\/em> profiled him<\/a> as far back as 2005, after he was elected to the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n Last year, the New York Times<\/em> wrote about Phil Boerner, who roomed with the future president<\/a> during his first year at Columbia. The article included excerpts from the Columbia student directory, showing Obama living during his junior year at 142 West 109th Street near Columbia\u2019s campus in New York City, and during his senior year at 339 East 94th Street. Boerner recalled that Obama sometimes wrapped himself in a sleeping bag to keep warm in the chilly apartment they shared, and that some nights he would cook chicken curry for dinner.<\/p>\n In an article published in<\/a> Columbia College Today<\/em>, Boerner also wrote:<\/p>\n Boerner:<\/strong> I remember often eating breakfast with Barack at Tom\u2019s Restaurant on Broadway. Occasionally we went to The West End for beers. We enjoyed exploring museums such as the Guggenheim, the Met and the American Museum of Natural History, and browsing in bookstores such as the Strand and the Barnes & Noble opposite Columbia. We both liked taking long walks down Broadway on a Sunday afternoon, and listening to the silence of Central Park after a big snow. I also remember jogging the loop around Central Park with Barack.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Obama even published an article in a school magazine called the Sundial<\/em>. A reporter for the conservative Human Events<\/em> magazine recently called it “a wholesale endorsement of all sorts of leftist claptrap<\/a> fashionable at the time.” The full article is available<\/a> on the Web site of Politico.com. It was published in the issue dated March 10, 1983.<\/p>\n The e-mail incorrectly claims that ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos was a classmate of Obama. They were both students at Columbia for about one academic year, but Stephanopoulos was a year ahead. Obama received his degree in 1983, while Stephanopoulos received his a year earlier, according to a university press release<\/a>. Neither of them were “class of 1984,” as the message incorrectly claims.<\/p>\n The message recycles \u2014 and exaggerates to the point of falsification \u2014 some attacks that were raised in the heat of the 2008 presidential campaign. The claim that Fox News could not find any classmates who remembered Obama, for example, was published in a Sept. 11, 2008, Wall Street Journal <\/em>editorial<\/a>, which attacked then-candidate Obama for not releasing more information about his two years at the university. The message also makes much of Wayne Allyn Root\u2019s statement in an interview that he didn\u2019t know anybody who remembered Obama at Columbia. That appeared Sept. 5, 2008, in Reason<\/em><\/a> magazine. What the message fails to mention is that Root was at the time a candidate for vice president on the Libertarian ticket. Root was stating that “[a] vote for Obama is four years of Karl Marx,” but even Root stopped short of claiming that Obama was not actually a student at Columbia. \u2013Brooks Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n \u2013Brooks Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n Update, Feb. 23: After we published this item, we received an e-mail from a woman who says she knew Obama when he was at Columbia. You can read her recollection of playing soccer with Obama on campus in our FactCheck Mailbag<\/a>. Source: FACT CHECK : http:\/\/factcheck.org\/2010\/02\/obama-at-columbia-university\/<\/a><\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n I am President Obama\u2019s classmate at Columbia University, Class of \u201983. I am also one of the most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. And I smell something rotten in Denmark. Obama has a big skeleton in his closet. It\u2019s his college records. Call it \u201cgut instinct\u201d but my gut is almost always right. Obama has a secret hidden at Columbia- and it\u2019s a bad one that threatens to bring down his presidency. Gut instinct is how I\u2019ve made my living for 29 years since graduating Columbia.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I\u2019m betting not.<\/p>\n If you could unseal Obama\u2019s Columbia University records I believe you\u2019d find that:<\/p>\n A) He rarely ever attended class.<\/p>\n B) His grades were not those typical of what we understand it takes to get into Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n C) He attended Columbia as a foreign exchange student.<\/p>\n D) He paid little for either undergraduate college or Harvard Law School because of foreign aid and scholarships given to a poor foreign students like this kid Barry Soetoro from Indonesia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If you think I\u2019m \u201cfishing\u201d then prove me wrong. Open up your records Mr. President. What are you afraid of?<\/p>\n It\u2019s time for Mitt to go on the attack and call Obama\u2019s bluff.<\/p>\n Read more: http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/barack-obama\/2012\/08\/06\/college-classmate-obama-scandal-columbia#ixzz22u96b7H3<\/a><\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n If you could unseal Obama\u2019s Columbia University records I believe you\u2019d find that:<\/p>\n A) He rarely ever attended class.<\/p>\n B) His grades were not those typical of what we understand it takes to get into Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n C) He attended Columbia as a foreign exchange student.<\/p>\n D) He paid little for either undergraduate college or Harvard Law School because of foreign aid and scholarships given to a poor foreign students like this kid Barry Soetoro from Indonesia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n ___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193 Posted by Donna Calvin<\/a> \u2014 Tuesday, August 07, 2012 DISCLAIMER: Beliefnet puts paid advertisements on \u201cWatchwoman on the Wall\u201d blog site including some that would never be approved of by the King James Bible, Pastor Ernie Sanders of Doers of the Word Church, What\u2019s Right-What\u2019s Left Radio Ministry, the Voice of the Christian Resistance, Geauga County Right to Life and Donna Calvin.\u00a0 We at <\/span><\/span><\/em>www.WRWL.org<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> do not condone, endorse, adhere to, practice or believe in many of the topics and some of what other bloggers promote or their religions at Beliefnet.\u00a0 However, Mrs. Calvin has no control of what Beliefnet displays.\u00a0\u00a0 She blogs at Beliefnet because she is in the missionary field ministering to true believers posting articles and commentaries informing pro-life, conservative Christians of recent anti-Christian acts and hostile legislation to God\u2019s Agenda and His Will for the world.\u00a0 Hopefully, unbelievers will read these along with the salvation message of Jesus Christ as written in the Gospel of John, Chapter 3, according to the King James Bible, and be saved.\u00a0 A missionary must go into the unbelievers\u2019 territory to reach them.\u00a0 Her mission is to Proclaim Warning to a Nation that has forgotten their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the only Truth, the Life, and the only Way to the One God the Father.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
\nThis should really be a cause for great concern.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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\nCorrection, March 16: We originally used a quote from Phil Boerner, Obama\u2019s roommate at Columbia, that referred to their time together at Occidental College. We have changed that quote to another of Boerner\u2019s recollections about their time at Columbia.<\/em>
\nSources<\/strong>
\n“Barack Obama \u201983 Becomes First College Alumnus To Win Presidency<\/a>.” Columbia University. 5 Nov 2008.
\nBoss-Bicak, Shira. “Barack Obama \u201993: Is He the New Face of The Democratic Party?<\/a>” Columbia College Today. Jan 2005.
\nCowan, Allison Leigh. “Recollections of Obama\u2019s Ex-Roommate<\/a>.” New York Times “City Room” Blog. 20 Jan 2009, accessed 14 Feb 2010.
\nBoerner, Phil. “Barack Obama \u201983, My Columbia College Roommate<\/a>.” Columbia College Today. Jan\/Feb 2009.
\n“Obama\u2019s Lost Years<\/a>.” Editorial. Wall Street Journal. 11 Sep 2008.
\nWelch, Matt. “Wayne Allyn Root\u2019s Million-Dollar Challenge<\/a>.” Reason Magazine. 5 Sep 2008.<\/p>\n[KEEP SCROLLING AND READING – THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CONTROVERSY FOLLOWS….\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193 ]<\/h2>\n
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE…A SCANDAL…IT IS NOT ABOUT WAS HE THERE, BUT WHAT HAPPENED WHILE HE WAS THERE…<\/span><\/h1>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nCollege Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia’<\/h1>\n
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IS THIS THE CONCLUSION YOU CAME UP WITH BASED UPON THE ABOVE INFORMATION?<\/h1>\n
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QUESTION? Is this why Obama is spending millions to keep it covered up, because Obama was there, but under devious means and it is being covered up because Obama doesn’t want this information known publicly?<\/h1>\n
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