re: 30th year poli-sci Reunion at Columbia: NOT ONE PERSON remembers Obama

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gone to such great lengths

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Can you list these supposed "great lengths"?

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sealed

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His records are not sealed.

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Funny how we know about Rick Perry's college records,

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Rick Perry is an idiotic hack. The other guy is the president.

I actually would like to see all records for all politicians, but president's unsealing their college records is not something that has much historical precedent. e.g. Bush did not do it.

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Of course he's hiding something.

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Okay but of all the things he could possibly be hiding, which of thrm bear on his ability to be the president. Most people can evaluate him based on his decision. Same with Bush and the ANG.

Just because Beck says something, it doesn't make it so. Here are classmates who remember him:


One person who did remember Mr. Obama was Michael L. Baron, who taught a senior seminar on international politics and American policy. Mr. Baron, now president of an electronics company in Florida, said he was Mr. Obama’s adviser on the senior thesis for that course. Mr. Baron, who later wrote Mr. Obama a recommendation for Harvard Law School, gave him an A in the course.

Columbia was a hotbed for discussion of foreign policy, Mr. Baron said. The faculty included Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security adviser, and Zalmay Khalilzad, now the American ambassador to the United Nations. Half of the eight students in the seminar were outstanding, and Mr. Obama was among them, Mr. Baron said.

Michael J. Wolf, who took the seminar with him and went on to become president of MTV Networks, said: “He was very smart. He had a broad sense of international politics and international relations. It was a class with a lot of debate. He was a very, very active participant. I think he was truly distinctive from the other people in that class. He stood out.”

Mr. Obama graduated in 1983. In his memoir, he says he had decided to become a community organizer but could not persuade anyone to hire him. So he found “more conventional work for a year” to pay off his student loans.

“Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors — see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand — and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve,” Mr. Obama wrote.

Cathy Lazere, his supervisor at Business International, described him as self-assured and bright. “He was very mature and more worldly than other people — on the surface kind of laid back, but kind of in control,” she said. “He had a good sense of himself, which I think a lot of kids at that age don’t.”

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Overall, for the 99% of applicants, the standards are much higher and more difficult than average obviously. But for the few exceptions they make, they're totally off the wall.

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They are equally believable. Connections go a long way. So does "diversity" in this particular area

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I'm talking about the crazy conspiracies. If you had to pick one side to believe something crazy about, would you pick the poor guy with the philandering African father or would you pick the scion of an American political dynasty with ancestors living in rarified, WASP air for decades?

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How, exactly, do you think Bush stacked up against his co-applicants for Harvard Business School? Which percentile do you think he scored in on his GMAT?

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I think he stacked up very poorly. I think that he got in because of his father's connections and he was an alumni of Yale. It wasn't based on academic merit.

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Why has Bush gone to such "great lengths" to "seal" his HBS records?

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Doubt anyone is arguing that President Bush performed well during his undergraduate (nor did, apparently, President Obama). It is my understanding that he pulled himself (somewhat) together during his graduate studies (the same argument made for President Obama).

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You wanna talk conspiracies? Which is easier to believe - a guy who had help from a CIA head father or some obscure half black guy from Hawaii?

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Not even sure what point you are trying to make here. His father is a man of great influence. There is no disputing that.

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You wanna talk conspiracies? Which is easier to believe - a guy who had help from a CIA head father or some obscure half black guy from Hawaii?

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Probably equal.

This article is from his former roommate at Columbia. I remember reading it years ago and thinking how much it reeked of bullshite.

Is this how you guys would write about your one of your friends from college? It seems so contrived to me.

My College Roommate

ETA: " Barack listened carefully to all points of view and he was funny, smart, thoughtful and well-liked."

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"As a host and roommate, he sometimes did the shopping and cooked the chicken curry."

It blows my mind how liberals refuse to even admit to the possibility that some of this stuff doesn't add up. Is their man-love for him made them that blind? Even gone as far as to DEFEND use of the US Governments most powerful arm to oppress political opinion. Damn, have we sunk that low?

You guys would follow him if he decided to invade hell.