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Title: Was Barack Obama A Foreign Exchange Student?
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Published: Aug 10, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-08-10 17:09:45 by Ada
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Transparency: A former classmate has added a tantalizing question to the mysteries surrounding Barack Obama's college years. Perhaps the GOP nominee, whose tax records are demanded, should call the president's bluff. Not many students whose grades supposedly were good enough to get into Harvard Law School can say that 400 of their classmates taken randomly don't remember a single thing about him or his even being there. But Barack Obama, Columbia University class of '83, can. Student Obama spent two years at Columbia after transferring there from Occidental College in Los Angeles. And for all the impression he made on his classmates, he might as well have been in the witness protection program. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News called that random group of 400 Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama. Like most transfer students, Obama lived off-campus, a factoid defenders use to explain his apparent lack of human contact during his Columbia years. Obama himself does not speak much about his years at Columbia and Harvard Law, other than he attended both and was elected president of the Harvard Law Review. Interestingly, Obama contributed not one signed word to the Harvard Law Review or any other legal publication. As Matthew Franck has pointed out in National Review Online, "A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at anytime." A curious factoid for an alleged scholar. In October 2007, the New York Times ran a piece titled "Obama's Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say," which would have won the Pulitzer Prize for understatements if there was one. The article noted that Obama, when asked, "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." Subscribe to the IBD Editorials Podcast One of those fellow students is Wayne Allen Root, former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He wonders, as we do, what's in Obama's Columbia file that warrants standards of secrecy higher than, say, the details of the Osama bin Laden raid or our efforts to derail Iran's nuclear program with a computer virus. Root asks if Obama's grades were good enough to get into Columbia. We have a copy of Mitt Romney's high school report card, which was deemed by the Boston Globe important enough to reveal to the world, but President Obama's Columbia transcripts remain a mystery. Root asks another question, namely how did young Obama, raised by a single mom and from a modest background, pay for all this education? Root wonders if one of the secrets in Columbia's files is perhaps an application for aid given to poor foreign students. Root has been dismissed in some quarters as a "birther," and we too might dismiss him out of hand if not for the fact that so much of what Obama has said about himself is not true. Recently we asked the question, "Is President Obama A Pathological Liar?" and provided tales he has told about himself that are simply false. We've also noted that Obama waited five years to apply to Harvard Law. As World Net Daily reports, from 1985 to 1988 he worked as a consultant and trainer for a subsidiary of Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation, founded on the principles of Saul "The Red" Alinsky. On the board of Gamaliel sat Northwestern University professor John McKnight, a student of Alinsky's radical tactics. Getting into Harvard Law School is not easy. Mc-Knight wrote Obama a letter of recommendation after Obama begged him for one. But why didn't Obama's college grades speak for themselves and cause the scholar to be drowning in scholarships? Suggestion to Mitt Romney: Agree to release all your tax returns if President Obama releases all the records pertaining to his college years.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Geraldo Rivera Schooled on Indonesian Barry Soetoro
The image of the Columbia University ID is a fake. (1) Obama was enrolled in Columbia College, which has distinctive IDs from the University, (2) the school does not identify foreign students on their school ID, (3) we know, from the school publications, that he was using the name Obama. (I doubt that Columbia was putting a bar code on its ID cards in 1980.) Obama was receiving scholarships available ONLY to Americans.
Prove it by showing what you call the real ID.
Since all his records are sealed exactly how would you know this? Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel. MUCH MORE HERE: www.breitbart.com/Big-Gov...a-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii UPDATE: Obama Error: Obama Born in Kenya Bio Also Used to Promote "Dreams from My Father" - DETAILS HERE. FLASHBACK: Obama Speaking In Kenya With Mass Murderer Raila Odinga: I Am So Proud To Come Back Home; Michelle Obama Agrees - HERE. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~ Thomas Jefferson
I have seen that, in fact I do believe I posted it here just recently. www.slideshare.net/kynize...goes-beyond-1991-brochure The following picture was in that brochure. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
No kidding. Shoon is a totally deluded misinformed leftie. Up until yesterday Shoonora actually believed that AhhhUmmmObama became Editor of the Harvard Law Review because Obama had scholar level stellar grades, and not because he benefited from Affirmative Action. hahahaha! I set Shoonara straight by posting an article from the NYT that showed Obaama was an AA selection. And another article from a HLR student during Obama's tenure there that showed he was a lazy disinterested HLR editor who had zero interest in law or justice, who only had interests in promoting himself thru other powerful people. But did Shoonara learn anything from the info I directed to her attention? No. Today she immediately rushes to the defense of her imposter hero, the foreignerinchief, who is probably laughing behind the scenes at the gullibility of Dem leftie voters like Shoonora.
I know you have seen that youtube where Manchelle called Kenya Barack's "homeland." She said he was from Kenya, his granny said he was born in Kenya and the Kenyan ambassador said he was born in Kenya and he said it himself before he decided to run for the big chair that he wasn't eligible for. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Anyone, at this late stage of the game, who doesn't know that the kenyan is a kenyan is either a complete moron or a useful-tool idiot.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~ Thomas Jefferson
I love it! The IBD is a respected mainstream publication. There's no way the Dems can dismiss the IBD as kooky conspiracy theorists. Unfortunately Romney is such a weeny, he won't follow thru on the IBD's suggestion.
I am not certain that Obama got into Harvard because of Affirmative Action, but I can say positively that they don't hand out the editorship of the Harvard Law Review by affirmative action. By the way, affirmative action is NOT wasted on foreign students. IF Obama was a foreign student then he wasn't eligible for affirmative action, and if he was designated for affirmative action then he couldn't have been a foreign student. Although Harvard Law does accept some foreign students, they tend to be very few and already lawyers in their home countries; this does not make it impossible for a foreign student to enroll in Harvard Law, just extremely improbable - but there has NEVER been a foreigner editing the Harvard Law Review. I am from NYC, I've known real Columbia students and seen real Columbia student IDs. So I think I can spot a fake. Columbia student IDs did not and do not specify a student is foreign nor carry an indication of affirmative action.
and this: veracitystew.com/2012/02/...the-new-attack-on-obamas- citizenship/
There doesn't seem to be any other possibility. At least I can't think of any. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
A first for shoonra the lib ... admitting he/she/it profiles!!!
Reading your quote, I'd say that the shoon has smoked too much Columian...much like his/her/its god, the kenyan.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~ Thomas Jefferson
Rothschild's Choice Barack Obama and the Hidden Cabal Behind the Plot to Murder America.
So are you challenging the veracity of what the beloved leftie newspaper standard, NYT, published about how the HLR changed its selection policy to allow minority students to be elected and benefit from Affirmative Action, not due to grades as was the old policy before Obama arrived on the scene? What's your sources for saying you are "positive" that HLR did not put a new AA policy to benefit minorities to be allowed to run for HLR editorship election. I'm waiting, shoon...tick, tock... Here's the NYT article link - pay special attention to the last line of the snip which reads as follows:"The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review." www.nytimes.com/1990/02/0....html?pagewanted=2&src=pm snip Change in Selection System Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said. Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.
They had to waive that for the kenyan, if he really was (s)elected editor. Which I doubt. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~ Thomas Jefferson
Which I doubt. I doubt the "writing competition" was anything too intellectually demanding or rigorous since it was set up to benefit minorities who could not get selected because of their bad grades. Probably something to the tune of "How I spent my summer vacation." Keep in mind that in the 70's flower power extreme liberalism was sweeping college campuses so Obama would have been an "exotic candidate" shoe-in for election by the white guilt ridden Harvard students.
Excellent point. Growing up in Texas with a great-grandmother whose family owned slaves in Tennesse (who all stayed with the family post-bellum) I completely escaped any guilt whatever. Amazing that. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~ Thomas Jefferson
Probably nothing as advanced as that. Obama probably plagiarized some "See Spot run. Run Spot, run!" Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
The more dirt that comes out revealing the fraud of The First Lawn Jockey, the more pissed-off I get at Congress for doing NOTHING to determine Obummer's right to spend one second in the White House as POTUS.
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#2. To: Itistoolate (#1)
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#3. To: Shoonra (#2)
#4. To: Shoonra (#2)
Obama was receiving scholarships available ONLY to Americans.
#5. To: James Deffenbach, Late, 4 (#4)
don't waste your time with the shoon -
#6. To: Lod (#5)
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
#7. To: Lod, Shoonora (#5)
don't waste your time with the shoon
#8. To: Lod (#5)
FLASHBACK: Obama Speaking In Kenya With Mass Murderer Raila Odinga: I Am So Proud To Come Back Home; Michelle Obama Agrees - HERE.
#9. To: James Deffenbach (#6)
#10. To: Ada (#0)
Suggestion to Mitt Romney: Agree to release all your tax returns if President Obama releases all the records pertaining to his college years.
#11. To: scrapper2 (#7)
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#12. To: All (#11)
#13. To: Lod (#9)
Anyone, at this late stage of the game, who doesn't know that the kenyan is a kenyan is either a complete moron or a useful-tool idiot.
#14. To: Shoonra (#11)
I am from NYC, I've known real Columbia stuents and seen real Columbia student IDs. So I think I can spot a fake.
#15. To: Phant2000 (#14)
#16. To: James Deffenbach (#13)
#17. To: Shoonra (#11)
I can say positively that they don't hand out the editorship of the Harvard Law Review by affirmative action.
#18. To: scrapper2, 4 (#17)
...the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition.
#19. To: Lod (#18)
They had to waive that for the kenyan, if he really was (s)elected editor.
#20. To: scrapper2 (#19)
#21. To: scrapper2 (#19)
Probably something to the tune of "How I spent my summer vacation."
#22. To: Ada (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#23. To: X-15 (#22)
That's because many of them are on tape associating carnally with small children, aliens, and farm animals. Although not foreigners, they're just as dirty as he.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~ Thomas Jefferson
#24. To: scrapper2, Lod, Shoonora (#7)
Not really. I am sure he is totally aware of the realities. He is operating off of a different agenda, but is well aware that Barry Soebama is a fraud. I suspect that Shoo has "connections" that direct is posting to conform with the agenda - which is Globalist, and ultimately derived from the Rotchild Agenda for world domination. No kidding. Shoon is a totally deluded misinformed leftie.
#25. To: Ada, All, *Illegal Immigration* (#0) (Edited)
angel Definition, Synonyms from http://Answers.com angel Definition, Synonyms from http://Answers.com The Gamaliel Foundation: Gamaliel Foundation GF takes a strong stand against current homeland security measures and immigration restrictions. In September of 2003, for example, GF's Director of Civil Rights for Immigrants described the Patriot Act as an "attack on immigrants." Moreover, GF seeks to persuade the U.S. government to "legalize and provide rights to tax-paying [illegal] immigrants in this country.” "We support any immigration legislation," adds GF, "that secures the civil rights of all immigrants; leads to the legalization of undocumented persons; provides for full labor protection and labor rights of immigrants; ends the inhumane detention and warehousing of asylum seekers; ends deportation for minor offenses; encourages family unity; provides security of our borders; includes humane border enforcement policies; [and] protects the civil liberties of all people." GF is a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding rights and civil liberties protections for illegal immigrants, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate restrictions on immigration. Obama once worked for an affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation. To view a comprehensive profile of the Gamaliel Foundation, click here. : GAMALIEL FOUNDATION (GF) When former Jesuit priest Gregory Galluzzo became the foundation's executive director in 1986, Gamaliel was restructured as a community-organizing leadership institute that focused on training activists “to build and maintain powerful organizations in low-income communities.” GF has since grown into a network of faith-based community-organizing affiliates with branches in 18 U.S. states, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.[1] Like the Gamaliel Foundation itself, GF's affiliates carefully select non- threatening names that form biblical acronyms. Michigan, for instance, has the Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy & Action in the Community (ISAAC); a Wisconsin affiliate is called Joining Our Neighbors, Advancing Hope (JONAH); and a New York affiliate is named Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope (NOAH). In the mid-1980s, Galluzzo served as a mentor for a young Barack Obama during the latter's organizing days in Chicago. The Developing Communities Project, where Obama first worked as an organizer, was (and still is) part of the Gamaliel network. By early 1988, Obama had become a consultant for, and a trainer of, GF community organizers; he would maintain his ties to Gamaliel throughout his years in the U.S. Senate. As Galluzzo said shortly after Obama was elected President in 2008: “Barack has acknowledged publicly that he had been the director of a Gamaliel affiliate. He has supported Gamaliel throughout the years by conducting training [and attending] our public meetings.” Gamaliel today offers more than 100 training events per year, teaching “techniques and methodologies that have worked in rural, urban, suburban, white, Black, Hispanic and working-class communities.” The foundation's seven-day residential training events use the “Socratic” method to promote an “agitational” approach to community organizing, modeled on the tactics of the late Saul Alinsky. GF has also developed training programs geared specifically toward clergy and women. According to Rutgers political scientist Heidi Swarts, who has studied GF extensively, Gamaliel's organizers engage freely in ideological talk when speaking privately among themselves, but they carefully avoid such talk during their trainings¯so as not to alienate working-class people. In those settings, the organizers present their ideas as pragmatic, “commonsense solutions” for “working families.” GF's modus operandi is to bring local, inner-city churches into its fold, and then to pressure political and corporate leaders to support Gamaliel's goals vis à vis the foregoing issues. Former GF community organizer Rey Lopez-Calderon reports that Gamaliel's “culture” is exceedingly “strange and warped.” “[Gregory] Galluzzo,” says Calderon, “told me that he wanted organizers to be tough bastards who could build power like the Conquistadors.” Calderon further reveals that Galluzzo, in seminars, would teach trainees to be “ruthless” in actualizing the premise that “the ends justify the means.” GF receives much of its funding from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Yet according to the Roman Catholic Faithful website, the foundation's “goals and philosophies are at fundamental odds with Church teaching.” In March 2010, David Ricken -- the Roman Catholic bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin -- said that certain “principles of the Gamaliel Foundation are inconsistent with the tenets of our Catholic Social Teaching.” Vicar general and chancellor Father John Doerfler of Northeast Wisconsin specified one particularly problematic GF doctrine: “The end,” he said, “does not justify the means.” GF has also received much financial support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the Bauman Family Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Glaser Progress Foundation, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Wieboldt Foundation, and the Woods Fund of Chicago.[3] For a list of additional funders of GF, click here. Additional Funders of the Gamaliel Foundation Additional funders of the Gamaliel Foundation include the Arkay Foundation; the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation; the Cross Currents Foundation; the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund; the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; the Marguerite Casey Foundation; the NoVo Foudation; the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities; the Resource Foundation; and the Wallace Global Fund. For additional information on the Gamaliel Foundation, click here. Edit to correct the link path to http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1324 on GF finances. Don't know if that info was originally posted at the link below or what happened but am leaving the other one here because it is for a GF financial supporter: www.discoverthenetworks.o...sp? fndid=5305&category=79 [The Bauman Family Foundation and affiliates] Obama waited five years to apply to Harvard Law. As World Net Daily reports, from 1985 to 1988 he worked as a consultant and trainer for a subsidiary of Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation, founded on the principles of Saul "The Red" Alinsky. On the board of Gamaliel sat Northwestern University professor John McKnight, a student of Alinsky's radical tactics.
www.answers.com/topic/angel Elohi, the upholder of the sword and left hand of God. Its influence penetrates the angel Geburah (or Gamaliel) and descends through the sphere of Mars. It imparts fortitude in times of war and affliction.
www.answers.com/topic/angel • [angel] Informal. A financial backer of an enterprise, especially a dramatic production or a political campaign.
Alinsky-Inspired Group Uses Stealth Tactics to Manipulate Church Congregations
www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1278370073.pdf - Pg. 2, Foundation Watch According to its website, Gamaliel’s executive director, Gregory Galluzzo, began his community organizing career by running the Pilsen Neighbors Community Council, now a Gamaliel affiliate, from 1971 to 1975. Pilsen, once an old Slavic neighborhood, became predominantly Mexican in the 1960s, housing large numbers of legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants. After leaving Chicago for community organizing work in Washington state, Galluzzo returned to the city to work with his now-wife, Mary Gonzales, in setting up the United Neighborhood Organization (UNO) from 1979 to 1986.
www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/gamfound.html Predicated on the notion that America is a land rife with injustice, the Gamaliel Foundation (GF) trains activists in techniques and methodologies for effectively bringing about social change. The Foundation models itself on the principles of Saul Alinsky, who authored the books Reveille for Radicals (1946), The Professional Radical (1970), and Rules for Radicals (1971).
www.discoverthenetworks.o...oupProfile.asp?grpid=7004 The Gamaliel Foundation (GF) was established in 1968 to support the Contract Buyers League, an African-American organization that advocated on behalf of black Chicago homeowners who had been discriminated against by lending institutions. GF derived its name from a Pharisee who, according to the New Testament, chastised the Jewish Sanhedrin (rabbinical court) for seeking to execute Jesus's apostles.
[Noting linked reference cited above is for Stanley Kurtz, Radical In Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (2010), Chapter 4.]
GF and its affiliates focus their training and activist efforts on the following major issues[2]: Civil Rights of [My note: Illegal] Immigrants, Health Care, etc. [This section was edited by me for brevity]
www.discoverthenetworks.o...undersofthegamalielfoundation.html
Source: The Foundation Center
In January 2011, veteran community organizer Ana Garcia-Ashley became GF's new executive director, replacing Gregory Galluzzo, who had held the position for 24 years.
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