NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA
10/18/2009 by Alan Peters
Looking for evidence of Obama’s past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, “I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me.
I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! Nobody recalls him. I’m not exaggerating, I’m not kidding.” Root adds that he was also, like Obama, “Class of ’83 political science, pre-law” and says, “You don’t get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don’t know anyone who ever met him.
At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me.
No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who’s kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange?
It’s very strange.” Obama’s photograph does not appear in the school’s yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root#column-one
NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major (in the same class as President Barack Obama WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN)
Are you claiming that Obama did not attend Columbia?
Just FYI, the school itself has confirmed that Obama spent those two years there. That information is presented toward the end of this article:
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/
It’s an interesting mystery. Obama was obviously very, very low-key those two years.
i didn’t write the article, Alan Peters did. And Wayne Root is the one making the claim that Obama was never in his class. I can’t confirm or deny that Obama did attend Columbia, i was not there. But this article does make one wonder.
I know you can’t confirm or deny it. Neither can Alan Peters. But Columbia College CAN confirm it. And has. Publicly. End of story.
you forgot Wayne Root…
There are 6 billion people who cannot confirm Obama’s time at the school. But the point is, the SCHOOL can, and HAS.That conclusively ends this non-controversy. What’s the problem?
http://thecentersquare.wordpress.com/
but that’s exactly the problem, just as you stated it. And the fact that Obama refuses to openly discuss it only gives these claims more validity. I hope you’re right, but as much as you are entitled to your opinion, so am I. Thank you for your comments, but i’m not totally convinced.