The Free Patriot ^ | 8 June, 2013 | Wayne Allen Root
My life has crossed paths with President Obama on multiple occasions.
According to Obama, we were Columbia University classmates, both Pre Law and
Political Science majors in the Class of ’83. I also ran against Obama in 2008
on the Libertarian Party Presidential ticket. What are the odds?
But something about “the Obama at Columbia story” has always bothered me.
Earlier in the week right here at The Blaze I wrote about having just returned
from New York, where I attended my 30th Columbia University reunion. I
celebrated with my esteemed classmates. Everyone except Barack Obama. As usual-
he wasn’t there. Not a trace. Not a video greeting. Not a letter. I could not
find any classmates who knew him.
I called Obama “the Ghost of Columbia University.” I pointed out (as I’ve
said in the media for many years now) that Obama may have been registered at
Columbia, may have graduated from Columbia, but he was rarely (if ever) seen for
the two years in-between. It’s a strange, mysterious and frightening story.
Is he the real-life “Manchurian Candidate?” What explains Obama having just
enough skeletal proof that he was there (one photo, one roommate, one professor,
one friend)…but never seen in a class, never on anyone’s radar screen, almost
invisible. A total 2-year blackout. It’s like a story straight out of a novel
about the CIA or KGB. He graduated Columbia, but it’s almost as if he never went
there.
To make matters more mysterious, Obama’s college records are sealed. He’s had
plenty of opportunities to authorize the release, to clear the air. He has never
chosen to do so. But why? What has he got to hide? Funny enough Obama has never
had a problem ripping open the sealed records of his political opponents. Every
step of his career Obama has beaten his opponents by having sealed documents
just happen to be publicly exposed by anonymous sources. But not Obama. His
records are always unavailable (and never leaked). Obama always seems to have
powerful forces on his side.
Did he attend Columbia as a foreign student? That was the educated guess I
made in my appearance on “Hannity” on Fox News a year ago. The only photo of
Obama from his Columbia days was in his off-campus apartment with a roommate
described by USA Today as a Pakistani national, pot smoker, and cocaine abuser.
If you’re a foreign student, you live in housing off-campus with other foreign
students.
That would also explain how he transferred to Columbia. Transferring into an
Ivy League school is all but impossible. I did a little digging and found out
only 3 transfer students in all of America were accepted into Columbia in the
past academic year. Three students out of 315 million Americans. Yet those who
knew Obama at Occidental called him a pot smoker and partier who rarely attended
class. You’re telling me that a poor student, with that record, at an average
college, was accepted for transfer into prestigious Columbia University? Only if
he was an exotic Indonesian foreign student transferring into a college that
desperately wanted to claim an ethnically and globally diverse student body.
Still that might explain how Obama got into Columbia. But where was he for
those two years? My gut instincts say something is wrong with “the Obama at
Columbia story.” Very wrong. Rancid.
But until now, I was the only one publicly voicing my suspicions. That just
changed in a big way. Meet Professor Henry Graff, perhaps the most legendary and
honored professor ever at Columbia University. He was THE American History and
Diplomatic History professor at Columbia for 46 years. And he is more emphatic
than yours truly that there are no Obama footprints at Columbia.
I was put on Professor Graff’s trail by another Columbia classmate, skeptical
about Obama’s story. He told me that Professor Graff had been the speaker for
the Class of ’53 last weekend at Columbia. My friend was watching Graff answer
questions from the crowd when he was asked about Obama at Columbia. Graff said,
“I have my doubts he ever went here.”
I did some digging and located Graff’s home phone number. I called him
yesterday. Now retired, he was delighted to hear from me. He agreed to go on the
record about Obama. Unlike Obama, Professor Graff clearly remembered me. He was
thrilled to hear from his former student. I was in several of Graff’s classes
and he remembered me like it was yesterday. He sounded great- like he hasn’t
lost any of his trademark sharpness in 30 years since we last met.
I was honored to learn that this legendary historian has been following my
political career for many years. But he had no such cheery things to say about
the President. Graff said, “I taught at Columbia for 46 years. I taught every
significant American politician that ever studied at Columbia. I know them all.
I’m proud of them all. Between American History and Diplomatic History, one way
or another, they all had to come through my classes. Not Obama. I never had a
student with that name in any of my classes. I never met him, never saw him,
never heard of him.”
Even more importantly, Professor Graff knew the other history and political
science professors. “None of the other Columbia professors knew him either” said
Graff.
Graff concluded our interview by saying, “I’m very upset by the whole story.
I am angry when I hear Obama called ‘the first President of the United States
from Columbia University.’ I don’t consider him a Columbia student. I have no
idea what he did on the Columbia campus. No one knows him.”
There is something wrong with Obama’s story- I know that. Many of my
classmates at last weekend’s 30th reunion knew that. Now the most beloved
Professor ever at Columbia joins us in publicly questioning the story. Obama is
either the ghost of Columbia, or the perfect Manchurian candidate. But something
smells rotten at Columbia.
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