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I was in law school in 1983 (graduated that year). Save for two close friends, I doubt that few, if any, of my 'classmates' would have any reason to remember me. Heck, I can't remember much about them, either.
Even though you later became President of the United States?
Oh, that's right. You didn't.
Mayb that has something to do with why nobody there, remembers you now. D'you think?
If you don't know the huge difference between a university department and the entire university then I highly doubt that you actually attended.
My framed bachelor's degree on the wall says otherwise.
If I was in the habit of giving out my real name on this board, which I'm not, you could easily verify my years of attendance (and graduation) on the University of Texas at Austin registrar's website.
Love how that horse arse Seth MacFarlane leaves the Truthers off his chart. Them Dems are the original conspiracy loons.
9/11 truthers? That is not a mainstream Democrat opinion by any means. In fact, more conservatives/libertarians believe Bush did it than liberals. The Jesse Ventura types.
Love how that horse arse Seth MacFarlane leaves the Truthers off his chart. Them Dems are the original conspiracy loons.
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Originally Posted by ELR123
9/11 truthers? That is not a mainstream Democrat opinion by any means. In fact, more conservatives/libertarians believe Bush did it than liberals. The Jesse Ventura types.
This. I've never met a truther who wasn't a self-described libertarian, or who described themselves as being to the right of Bush 43.
There may be some left-wing truthers out there, sure...but as ELR123 said it isn't a mainstream opinion. It's not mainstream on the right either.
Although Barack Obama may not have been particularly social or memorable during his years at Columbia, it isn't true that "no one ever came forward from Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc." Those who have attested to having daily personal experience with him during his time at that school include:
Friend and roommate Sohale Siddiqi, whom the Associated Press located and interviewed in May 2008.
Roommate Phil Boerner, who provided his recollections of sharing a New York City apartment with classmate Barack Obama to the Columbia College Today alumni publication and the New York Times in early 2009.
Michael L. Baron, who taught the year-long honors seminar in American Foreign Policy that Barack Obama took during his senior year at Columbia and recalled in an NBC interview Obama's "easily acing" the class and receiving an A for his senior paper on the topic of nuclear negotiations with the Soviet Union.
Likewise, other external evidence documents Barack Obama's presence at Columbia from 1981-83, including:
An article by Barack Obama published in the 10 March 1983 edition of Columbia's Sundial school magazine.
A January 2005 Columbia College Today profile of Barack Obama as a Columbia alumnus.
A Columbia College press release from November 2008 identifying him as "the first College alumnus to be elected President of the United States."
9/11 truthers? That is not a mainstream Democrat opinion by any means. In fact, more conservatives/libertarians believe Bush did it than liberals. The Jesse Ventura types.
Barack should at least have someone that remembers him. I remember hundreds of people I went to college with. They connect with me on Facebook all the time.
The annual student population at Columbia is about 28,000. There are 20 schools within the university.
Three presidents, including Obama, graduated from Columbia.
Those who lived with him and attended school and choose to comment in public are called fake by the conspiracy crowd. Everyone needs a hobby.
Even though you later became President of the United States?
Oh, that's right. You didn't.
Mayb that has something to do with why nobody there, remembers you now. D'you think?
So, you are saying that if some guy I did not know, who sat in one of my classes in 1983, became President in 2016, for instance, I should suddenly develop a memory of this person decades later?
The tenor of the articles is that while at Columbia (current enrollment 20,000, so probably less in 1983) President Obama (who was not President at the time!) kept a low profile. Even so, some people have recalled him, just like two people would probably recall me. Now, if I were President while in college or law school, no doubt more people would recall me.
I am a reasonable person. For instance, I do not make a snap decision about, say, a Supreme Court case concerning DNA testing of suspects. Do you recall that thread? How you came in, decried the decision and claimed that 'liberals' were in the majority, only to be thereafter absent from the thread when it was pointed out that it was the conservative justices (Justice Scalia excepted) who wrote the majority decision? In that thread I asked if your decision about the case would have changed if you were aware, from the outset, of which 'bloc' of Justices were in the majority, but you never responded.
Anyway, I do not doubt that President Obama attended Columbia University. No reasonable person does. The question of 'why' he is not well-remember by more people is, at bottom, unanswerable. I think the simpliest explanation the most likely: he did not do anything to make himself memorable.
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