[Vision2020] Al Qaeda-linked Website Backs McCain as President

[No Weatherman]

> The rest is sensationalism and innuendo.  It's basically trying to tear down
> someone you simply don't like.

No, the rest of it is asking, "What happened?" and neither the Obama
campaign nor the msm has bothered to answer the question.

But we know everything there is to know about Gov Palin.

The one common denominator between Columbia and Chicago is Bill Ayers.

Ayers attended Columbia the same time as Obama and they both had Said
as a professor.





>> Thanks for the text, the link still doesn't show anything in my browser.
>>
>> I have a question, though.
>>
>> Where does it mention Pakistan and how he paid for Columbia?
>>
>> And did you notice how many times it says "he claims"?
>>
>> It's those unsubstantiated "claims" that bother me.
>>
>> We don't know Jack Shiite about Obama.
>>
>>
>> On 10/24/08, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> No Weatherman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul:
>>>>
>>>> Looks like wikicu.com scrubbed their Obama page because it doesn't load
>>>>
>>>
>>> for me.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Here's the text.  It's working for me.  A web browser problem on your
>>> end,
>>> maybe?
>>>
>>>  From http://www.wikicu.com/Barack_Obama:
>>>
>>>  Barack Obama CC '83 is a US Senator from Illinois and the Democratic
>>> party
>>> candidate for the 2008 presidential election.
>>>
>>>  Many Columbia students are audaciously hoping he'll win his primary and
>>> the
>>> national election. If he does, he will not only be the first partially
>>> black
>>> president, but the first attendee of Columbia College, and the first
>>> graduate of any Columbia school[1], to occupy the Oval Office. Obama is
>>> currently the first Columbia College alumnus to be nominated by a major
>>> modern party ticket, and the first CC alum to be a major party nominee
>>> since
>>> the Federalists nominated DeWitt Clinton in 1812.
>>>
>>>  Obama, however, tends to forget/ignore his Columbia affiliation,
>>> preferring
>>> to mention that he attended Harvard Law School. He has repeatedly turned
>>> down requests to be the Class Day speaker in recent years, as well as
>>> general requests to appear from the College Democrats. He did, however,
>>> note
>>> that Columbia was his alma mater while visiting during the ServiceNation
>>> Presidential Candidates Forum, and sent a letter to the attendees of the
>>> Class of 1983's 25th reunion gathering.
>>>
>>>  Columbia years
>>>
>>>  Obama transferred to CC from Occidental College which (poor place) is
>>> even
>>> more rarely mentioned by the young senator. At Occidental, Obama had been
>>> into partying and drugs. He hoped the move to New York, and Columbia,
>>> would
>>> put him on a more serious track.
>>>
>>>  Columbia at that time did not guarantee university housing for all
>>> students, so Obama lived off campus. He claims to have spent his first
>>> night
>>> sleeping in an alley near the corner of 109th and Amsterdam Avenue and
>>> washing with the homeless next to an open fire hydrant. He eventually
>>> moved
>>> into a walkup on E. 94th St., in East Harlem, where he would "chat with
>>> his
>>> Puerto Rican neighbors about...the sound of gunfire at night".[2]
>>>
>>>  When he was on campus, he concentrated on academic work, spending most
>>> of
>>> his time in Butler Library "like a monk", and made few friends. He also
>>> took
>>> up jogging and "stopped getting high". The racist and anti-Semitic
>>> graffiti
>>> he sometimes encountered on bathroom walls on campus (how times never
>>> change!) helped him form his ideas about race and class. He wrote of "the
>>> almost mathematical precision with which America's race and class
>>> problems
>>> joined; the depth, the ferocity, of resulting tribal wars; the bile that
>>> flowed freely not just out on the streets but in the stalls of Columbia's
>>> bathrooms as well".[3]
>>>
>>>  Obama claims to have participated to some extent in anti-apartheid
>>> activities with the Black Students Organization, but no one is quite
>>> sure.
>>>
>>>  He majored in PoliSci, and claims to have concentrated in "International
>>> Relations," (now International Politics - this is a subfield of the
>>> PoliSci
>>> major and should not be confused with a "concentration," the Columbia
>>> term
>>> that substitutes for what most schools term a "minor"). Obama's
>>> professors
>>> and classmates, including former international politics professor Michael
>>> Baron and current MTV president Michael Wolf, confirm that he was a
>>> brilliant, standout student and that he was an active participant in
>>> seminars. Baron said he was one of the top one or two students in his
>>> class.
>>> Despite this, Obama continually declines requests to release his Columbia
>>> transcript.
>>>
>>>  Sources first differed on whether he wrote his senior thesis on Soviet
>>> nuclear disarmament[4] or the North-South debate on trade and the "new
>>> international economic order"[5]. Later, it emerged that he had not
>>> really
>>> written an official thesis at all: students were not required to do so at
>>> the time, and what counted as a "thesis" was really a long seminar paper.
>>> Obama wrote his for Prof. Baron's American Foreign Policy class. A search
>>> has been launched[6] for a copy of the paper, which was confirmed to have
>>> been on the topic of Soviet disarmament. Baron, Obama's de facto "thesis"
>>> advisor, is now retired to Florida, and claims to have lost his copy of
>>> the
>>> paper in a move some time ago.
>>>
>>>  It has been reported that Obama graduated without honors[7], but if the
>>> policies then were the same as they are today, he would not have been
>>> eligible for latin honors, because he spent only two years in the
>>> college.
>>> Obama hoped to become a community organizer, but could not find work as
>>> one,
>>> and joined a small consulting firm instead. In his memoir, he portrays
>>> this
>>> as a big corporate job, and claims it prompted fears he was becoming a
>>> sellout.
>>>
>>>  Later Columbia coincidences
>>>
>>>  In his primary fight to become the Democratic nominee, Obama has faced,
>>> among others, GS alum Mike Gravel. His Republican opponent would be John
>>> McCain, a former Class Day speaker whose daughter, Meghan McCain, was
>>> CC'07.
>>> In the general election, he is facing tickets with Wayne Allen Root, also
>>> CC'83, the Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee, and independent
>>> vice
>>> presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez CC'87.
>>>
>>>  References
>>>
>>>  1. Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt both attended
>>> Columbia
>>> Law School, but neither graduated, as you only needed to pass the bar
>>> after
>>> 2 years of school to practice law. One Roosevelt dropped out after
>>> passing
>>> the bar, the other after being elected to the NY State Assembly. Dwight
>>> Eisenhower never attended Columbia, but rather served as a somewhat
>>> absentee
>>> President of the University while biding his time to run for the
>>> Presidency.
>>>  2.
>>>
>>> http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/where-obama-lived-in-1980s-new-york/
>>>  3. Dreams from My Father, p. ?
>>>  4. http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/28631
>>>  5.
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/magazine/04obama-t.html
>>>  6.
>>> http://www.bwog.net/articles/obama_s_schoolwork_verily_a_mystery
>>>  7.
>>>
>>> http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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