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http://freepatriot.org/2013/06/08/professor-from-columbia-comes-forward-saying-obama-never-attended-the-university/
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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It'd be interesting if this story ever gets any traction, but I doubt it will.
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It'd be interesting if this story ever gets any traction, but I doubt it will.
I doubt it as well. I also saw that Arpaio had forensic proof that Obama's birth cert was a forgery. But, I'm not posting it.
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I attended University at the same time as someone who now holds elected office. I never knew him, never met him then or saw him once at numerous alumni functions since I graduated... this proves what exactly?
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It'd be interesting if this story ever gets any traction, but I doubt it will.
Old news but true. NOT A SINGLE STUDENT REMEMBERS OBAMA FROM COLUMBIA
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I attended University at the same time as someone who now holds elected office. I never knew him, never met him then or saw him once at numerous alumni functions since I graduated... this proves what exactly?
Whatever. Head in the sand. The fact is that Obama's entire fake narative and BIO was created as a fairey tale for idiots to buy in to.
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Surprise of the year when it comes out that 333 actually voted for Obama!
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Surprise of the year when it comes out that 333 actually voted for Obama!
Hell no - obama is a mortal threat to this nation.
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Hell no - obama is a mortal threat to this nation.
'Mortal'? C'mon Chris my man. It's not that serious. Most presidents end up feathering their own nests or lie to get elected. Or if not lie, then distort the truth. The question shouldn't be whether Obama is good for the US, it should be whether Mitt would've been any better.
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hahhahahahaha must to have run out of fake scandals, wwhat's next the birth place the stupid party lives :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Whatever. Head in the sand. The fact is that Obama's entire fake narative and BIO was created as a fairey tale for idiots to buy in to.
Yeah, head in the sand... LOL.
You really believe there exists a massive, decades old conspiracy involving thousands of people of all races, ages and political beliefs that was meant to put Obama in power?
If yiu do, I have one question... why would the architects of such a well-planned and well-executed conspiracy use a Kenyan baby to begin with? It seems like it would be a stupid choice that could, potentially risk their careful planning. Surely there was no shortage of babies verifiably born here for them to choose from, right?
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I doubt it as well. I also saw that Arpaio had forensic proof that Obama's birth cert was a forgery. But, I'm not posting it.
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I doubt it as well. I also saw that Arpaio had forensic proof that Obama's birth cert was a forgery. But, I'm not posting it.
Why not? And did you see that Arpaio has "forensic" birth certificate was a forgery, or did you see the proof? Also, I'm curious how Arpaio could have forensically examined anything without access to it. Because you do realize that examining anything other than the original is pointless, right?
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Some of you think there is nothing at all strange w the fact that no student and no professor in the poly sci department remembers a student who would later become POTUS? Especially a black one w a strange name?
Come on now
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Some of you think there is nothing at all strange w the fact that no student and no professor in the poly sci department remembers a student who would later become POTUS? Especially a black one w a strange name?
First of all, it's silly to assert that "no student and no professor" remembers Obama, a statement that's demonstrably false. Remember how we were talking yesterday about nutjobs who would say crazy stuff? This was a prime example.
Second, why would they have occasion to remember someone who hadn't yet become POTUS? It's like asking someone who went to highschool school with someone who went on to become chief of police "Man, why didn't you befriend him? You could speed with impunity!"
I'll repeat: someone I was at University with at the same time is now holding elected office. He was there for his undegraduate and graduate degrees, as was I. Yet I never met him once, and I do not, to the best of my recollection, remember ever seeing him at University. What does that mean? That he didn't actually attend?
Come on now
I'll consider your extraordinary claim that "no student and no professor" remembers Obama seriously if you can produce proof that it is true. And I shouldn't have to remind you, a lawyer, that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
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Look up Wayne Allen Root - he was in the poly sci department and graduated the same year as Obama at Columbia and has been to every reunion and says not one single alumni he knows ever remembers Obama. And remember - Columbia poly sci department is not thousands of people, or even possibly hundreds of people.
First of all, it's silly to assert that "no student and no professor" remembers Obama, a statement that's demonstrably false. Remember how we were talking yesterday about nutjobs who would say crazy stuff? This was a prime example.
Second, why would they have occasion to remember someone who hadn't yet become POTUS? It's like asking someone who went to highschool school with someone who went on to become chief of police "Man, why didn't you befriend him? You could speed with impunity!"
I'll repeat: someone I was at University with at the same time is now holding elected office. He was there for his undegraduate and graduate degrees, as was I. Yet I never met him once, and I do not, to the best of my recollection, remember ever seeing him at University. What does that mean? That he didn't actually attend?
I'll consider your extraordinary claim that "no student and no professor" remembers Obama seriously if you can produce proof that it is true. And I shouldn't have to remind you, a lawyer, that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
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Look up Wayne Allen Root - he was in the poly sci department and graduated the same year as Obama at Columbia and has been to every reunion and says not one single alumni he knows ever remembers Obama. And remember - Columbia poly sci department is not thousands of people, or even possibly hundreds of people.
Every single alumni Wayne Allyn Root knows is quite a different set from every alumni, besides even Root hasn't said Obama didn't attend - he said he doesn't remember him, which is quite a different thing. I'm sure you can find people from my department at University who don't remember or even know me and we are not a large department either. What does this prove? Do you remember everyone from your time at University or Law School?
But let's assume, for a second, that it's true that Obama never attended Columbia. Let's not even consider evidence of his presence there - after all, it's not as if Obama, while a student at Columbia, published an article at a Columbia University newspaper or magazine. If he hadn't attended, why would nobody from Columbia take official action against Obama in so many years? Or, hell, unofficial action. I'm sure that not everyone employed at Columbia University is in on the conspiracy - and a quick printout of a screen capture showing no records for Obama and leaked to the press would have been hugely damaging. Yet no such thing ever showed.
And, of course, there's the issue that Harvard would have not only demanded but also verified the transcripts of Obama from his days at Columbia before admitting him. But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. Unless you also think he didn't attend Harvard, and they're in on the conspiracy too.
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Every single alumni Wayne Allyn Root knows is quite a different set from every alumni, besides even Root hasn't said Obama didn't attend - he said he doesn't remember him, which is quite a different thing. I'm sure you can find people from my department at University who don't remember or even know me and we are not a large department either. What does this prove? Do you remember everyone from your time at University or Law School?
But let's assume, for a second, that it's true that Obama never attended Columbia. Let's not even consider evidence of his presence there - after all, it's not as if Obama, while a student at Columbia, published an article at a Columbia University newspaper or magazine. If he hadn't attended, why would nobody from Columbia take official action against Obama in so many years? Or, hell, unofficial action. I'm sure that not everyone employed at Columbia University is in on the conspiracy - and a quick printout of a screen capture showing no records for Obama and leaked to the press would have been hugely damaging. Yet no such thing ever showed.
And, of course, there's the issue that Harvard would have not only demanded but also verified the transcripts of Obama from his days at Columbia before admitting him. But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. Unless you also think he didn't attend Harvard, and they're in on the conspiracy too.
uuummm- Obama got into Harvard via Saudi help and the lawyer for Percy Sutton
Already posted many times - guy says he wrote to Harvard on Obama's behalf
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uuummm- Obama got into Harvard via Saudi help and the lawyer for Percy Sutton
Already posted many times - guy says he wrote to Harvard on Obama's behalf
Even if true, so what? An undergraduate degree is optional to get into Harvard Law, and Harvard would be ok with faked transcripts?
It's pointless trying to have a rational conversation with you. You post walls of text others wrote and are full of innuendo and unsupported accusations and impossible to prove statements, conspiracy theory videos and nonsense - some of it already debunked - and never argue on the merits of something.
I hope you do a better job in Court counsel.
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Even if true, so what? An undergraduate degree is optional to get into Harvard Law, and Harvard would be ok with faked transcripts?
It's pointless trying to have a rational conversation with you. You post walls of text others wrote and are full of innuendo and unsupported accusations and impossible to prove statements, conspiracy theory videos and nonsense - some of it already debunked - and never argue on the merits of something.
I hope you do a better job in Court counsel.
uuummm - this guy is saying he himself helped Obama get into Harvard. Are you saying he is lying?
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hahhahahahaha must to have run out of fake scandals, wwhat's next the birth place the stupid party lives :D :D :D :D :D :D
Pick anyone of these scandals and tell me which one you think is fake? If someone lies, no matter who you are or the situation, they WILL be caught sooner or later.
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Why not? And did you see that Arpaio has "forensic" birth certificate was a forgery, or did you see the proof? Also, I'm curious how Arpaio could have forensically examined anything without access to it. Because you do realize that examining anything other than the original is pointless, right?
Obviously, like ALL of us, I read it.
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uuummm - this guy is saying he himself helped Obama get into Harvard. Are you saying he is lying?
No, I'm saying that even if he did help him, do you think that Harvard would accept someone who didn't have a graduate degree or would skip the requirement that an applicant provide official transcripts?
Obviously, like ALL of us, I read it.
You read what? The forensic evidence? Can you summarize it for us, and tell us exactly what it was that Arpaio's team forensically examined?
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http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/06/18759-sheriff-joe-slams-obama-says-that-he-has-forensic-proof-birth-certificate-is-a-forgery/
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No, I'm saying that even if he did help him, do you think that Harvard would accept someone who didn't have a graduate degree or would skip the requirement that an applicant provide official transcripts?
You read what? The forensic evidence? Can you summarize it for us, and tell us exactly what it was that Arpaio's team forensically examined?
Or they made special exemptions and let Obama in ahead of others more deserving?
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Or they made special exemptions and let Obama in ahead of others more deserving?
Maybe they did - and it would be a shame, although hardly unprecedented. Universities do that shit (and I mean "shit" - I dislike the quota admission system that we are forced to implemented) all the time. But again, do you think that they would waive the requirement for an undegraduate degree? Or that they would not request official transcripts that they would then verify with Columbia?
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Maybe they did - and it would be a shame, although hardly unprecedented. Universities do that shit (and I mean "shit" - I dislike the quota admission system that we are forced to implemented) all the time. But again, do you think that they would waive the requirement for an undegraduate degree? Or that they would not request official transcripts that they would then verify with Columbia?
I think Obama probably has both, b ut they contain highly damaging info on Obama, which is why he refuses to release them.
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I think Obama probably has both, b ut they contain highly damaging info on Obama, which is why he refuses to release them.
What could be highly damaging in a transcript, short of a poor grade? I hardly think a poor grade would qualify as "highly damaging" for someone who's already been elected President for the second time.
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What could be highly damaging in a transcript, short of a poor grade? I hardly think a poor grade would qualify as "highly damaging" for someone who's already been elected President for the second time.
Now yes - in 2007 it would have been far different when he ran vs Hillary
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Now yes - in 2007 it would have been far different when he ran vs Hillary
Even then, I don't think it would have made much of a difference. Americans don't expect perfection from the politicians, and tend to see bad things as humanizing. Almost everyone has had a bad grade - if his transcript was average I think that would serve to connect people with Obama who is aloof and professorial.
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Even then, I don't think it would have made much of a difference. Americans don't expect perfection from the politicians, and tend to see bad things as humanizing. Almost everyone has had a bad grade - if his transcript was average I think that would serve to connect people with Obama who is aloof and professorial.
He ran as the brilliant academic and con law genius remember?
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He ran as the brilliant academic and con law genius remember?
Sure, but I don't think that's what won him the Presidency anyways. He won the primaries because he was a better overall candidate who connected better with people than Hillary. He won the election because... well, John McCain and Sarah Palin.
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Sure, but I don't think that's what won him the Presidency anyways. He won the primaries because he was a better overall candidate who connected better with people than Hillary. He won the election because... well, John McCain and Sarah Palin.
nonsense - had the media vetted him properly and properly vetted his fake bio for what it was - a fabrication - he never would have one the primary. His entire narrative and message and claims were based on complete falsehoods meant to seduce a desperate public.
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He ran as the brilliant academic and con law genius remember?
I don't really remember Obama himself trying to refer to himself as a "con law genius"
I do remember the right wing trying to paint him as an "elitist" and a "celebrity" though that didn't work out too in either race
As I pointed out to Joe in his stupid thread about Obamacare, the Repubs just recycle the same stupid shit ever 6-12 months but it's beyond moot at this point since Obama is in his second term and will no doubt finish it out with resigning or being impeached or whatever other nonsense that guys like Joe fantasize about
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Obama Is Just Obama
PJ Media ^ | June 10, 2013 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on Monday, June 10, 2013 2:16:56 PM by Kaslin
Suddenly, half the country is upset with Obama for the recent flurry of scandals. Even some in the media are perplexed. Why the sudden angst, given that Obama is simply being Obama? We, not he, changed the rules.
Once Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois legislature, his career as a statesman was mostly an afterthought — either voting “present” on controversial legislation (cf. Hillary’s 2008 complaint) or simply showing up to sign off on a straight left-wing agenda. Even his supporters can cite no lasting legislative achievement other than his controversial votes to allow babies born alive from botched abortions to be liquidated. As a political unknown, he got elected and defined his tenure as a legislator into a perpetual effort to find higher office.
Ditto the U.S. Senate. Obama was noted in his brief career mostly for compiling the most partisan record among a diverse group of 100 senators, while making the argument that he worked “across the aisle” and was a model of “bipartisanship.” Because newly elected Senator Obama swore that he would not run for the presidency, we inferred that he would certainly do just that. (Yes, it is axiomatic that when Obama swears ["make no mistake about it"/"let me be perfectly clear"], then we expect what will follow will prove to be the very opposite.)
In the Senate, there was no signature legislation, no principled opposition, not much of anything, except a vote against Justice Alito and some similarly failed efforts at other filibusters to deny nominees an up-or-down vote. He spent most of his brief sojourn attacking George W. Bush for the very protocols that he as president would later embrace. The only thing important was getting elected in the first place as a left-wing senator, and Obama accomplished that in brilliant, if not Machiavellian, fashion — with the help of the leaked divorced records of both his primary and general opponents.
The Man Who Never Was
The saga of Obama is marked by the uncanny ability to soar through the academic and government cursus honorum without ever being held too accountable for what followed. Obama’s selection as editor of the Harvard Law Review broke new ground. But to this day, no one cares much that his record was mediocre with no scholarly work to show for his tenure.
For that matter, ditto also his law career at the University of Chicago: an impressive appointment, but no scholarly book as promised, not even an article, and no distinguished record of teaching. Not much of anything. The point of the Nobel Prize was winning it — not doing anything that might have earned it. Just as there was no foreign policy achievement that preceded the prize, so there was naturally none following it. Why expect anything different now?
The Mind of the Liberal Elite
Obama always has a unique insight into a disturbing pathology among wealthy white liberal elites, who often seek, in condescending fashion, to promote particular aspiring minority candidates into positions of power and influence by virtue of their profile rather than past record. Hence the prep-schooled Barry Dunham returned to the more exotic Barack Obama, an authentic enough “other” fresh out of Rev. Wright’s Church, but also the pet of the Ivy League. Had he been born in Chicago to a Daily ward boss, it would have been a bit much to win statewide office. Had Obama been named Reggie Davis I don’t think the liberal resonance would have been there. Had he intoned like Jesse Jackson — all the time — he would have worried big-money liberals. Had his mannerisms been Al Sharpton-like, that would have been a bridge too far. There is something in the liberal mind that ignores the anti-constitutional transgressions of a smooth Eric Holder, but goes berserk over the comparatively minor obfuscations of a twangy Texan Alberto Gonzalez, perhaps along the lines of “how dare he?” Politics aside, liberal elites would always prefer to hear a Barack Obama fudge than a Clarence Thomas tell the truth.
Obama brilliantly threaded the multicultural, Ivy-League, prep-school, affirmative action, just like us-sorta, yuppie needle. I’ll let you decide whether wealthy liberals practice such racialist paternalism because of feelings of guilt, because of their intrinsic dislike of the NASCAR/Sarah Palin working and middle classes, or as a sort of medieval exemption — the huge “Obama for President” sign on the lawn of the Palo Alto professor means never having to put your kids in schools where some are bused in from East Palo Alto. But what is absolutely non-controversial is that Obama’s prior record as a university undergraduate, a Harvard Law Review editor, a Chicago law lecturer, an Illinois legislator, and a U.S. senator was as undistinguished as his efforts to obtain those posts were absolutely dazzling.
The presidency followed the same earlier script. Obama ran a brilliant campaign both in 2008 and 2012, more inspired even than Richard Nixon’s 1972 CREEP run, or Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” 1984 touchy-feely pastel effort. In 2008, Obama offered cadences of something known as “hope and change” that were supposed to cure the evils of George Bush — and left everything else to the media. The second time around, he turned a decent Mitt Romney into a veritable greedy ogre from the Utah nuthouse, who did everything from ignoring his African-American garbage man to torturing his poor dog to buying pricey horses for his wife who was found guilty of being an equestrian.
But Obama’s record as president? There is pretty much nothing other than ramming through an unpopular takeover of health care, leveraged by political bribes and deemed unworkable even before it is enacted. A “train wreck” is how its author in the Senate dubbed his own legislative offspring. Otherwise it was golf, down time, and free rein for zealous subordinates to “fundamentally transform America” by any means necessary, usually through administrative fiat and subversions of the vast and always growing bureaucracy.
Obama is now somewhat shocked that a few in the media hold him responsible for lots of bad things that his administration did: destroyed the reputation of the IRS; had a rogue EPA director invent a phony persona; let the HHS secretary shake down PR money from corporations to sell Obamacare; turned the Justice Department into a veritable Stasi enterprise going after the phone records of reporters; reduced the State Department into an arm of the 2012 Obama reelection effort; and helped erode the reputations of both Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice, who advanced campaign narratives about Benghazi that were not just untrue, but were demonstrably false the moment they were presented.
So What?
So where’s the beef? Obama, who was given a pass from Rev. Wright to Tony Rezko, is justifiably confused: who now changed the rules? Why should he suddenly be held accountable in a way he never was prior? He signed up to be a transformational president who was above politics, not someone subject to the vagaries of Washington scandals.
The result of the serial dishonesty is that Obama almost immediately reverted to his natural campaign mode, the soaring rhetoric and non-traditional persona that won him everything on the guarantee that there would be no audit, no assessment, no final appraisal. In other words, Obama never really became president of the United States. He simply kept running for the office against “them” even when he is now “them” holding the highest office. So Pavlovian was his campaign mode that he never quite stopped to wonder why he was running against himself — now damning the very abuses of power that he committed, upset only that someone might be disturbed about a record in a manner that they never were at Harvard, in the Senate, or during his first term.
Quo Vadimus?
Where do the scandals lead? To about three more months of Washington inaction. At some point soon, the Democrats will accept that the novelty of Obama in opposition to the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments has worn off. Who cares to hound out our first black president, our first northern liberal commander in chief in a half-century? Likewise the media will strut a bit to show it is not entirely reptilian, but then will revert to the usual hagiography. Why endanger Obamacare, or “lead from behind,” or the apology tours, or the new 50 million on food stamps by cannibalizing your own?
There are lots of metaphors for Obama. Some cite King Henry II, who dreams out loud for advantageous things to follow, only to shed alligator tears when toadies reify his deadly desires (Becket dead? That was a bit much, wasn’t it?). Others cite the clueless Jimmy Carter, whose agendas proved unworkable and ended up as caricatures of a presidency. I still prefer Chauncey Gardiner of Being There. In January 2012, I wrote the following on these pages:
What got Obama to the presidency was being a man without a past or present, Chauncey Gardiner of Being There — without a college record, a medical record, a scholarly record, or much of a legislative record, the “smartest” president in history without having to say or do anything smart, who “busted hump” his entire life without any proof that he ever did any such thing, who proclaimed himself a greater president than all but three, but left nothing great in his wake, now or in the past. Obama had forgotten that winning non-persona for a time, and so after 2009 fooled himself into thinking out loud that at times he would play a real Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy, or Reagan.
But now Obama accepts what he was and always will be — Chauncey Gardiner.
And just being there is apparently the way to being president a bit longer.
Nothing has changed in the last 18 months, and the Obama presidency remains what it has been since 2009: a path-breaking candidate who was elected America’s first African-American president; a gifted teleprompted speaker who is as accomplished from a script as he flounders ex tempore; and an opportunist haunted by George Bush and the post-2010 Republican House that are supposed to be responsible for most of what he gets caught for.
Otherwise there is not a lot there—mostly a carnival of McCarthyite (AttackWatch, JournoList, IRS) henchmen and left-wing extremists trying to push through an agenda by any means necessary that the majority of America probably does not welcome.
Obama is perturbed that we question any of this malfeasance. I think he is right to be angry. In his case, we made up the Obama rules that symbolism (not performance) and amnesty (not accountability) count. So why break our covenant with him, and now start asking for concrete and honest accomplishment when the teleprompter was always enough? In 2008, did we ask for the specifics of “the audacity of hope,” or ponder how someone who did not miss a service at Trinity Church (“Yep. Every week. 11 o’clock service”) somehow missed Rev. Wright’s serial racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-American rants? That we now want to know the president’s role in Benghazi, or in the IRS, AP, and Fox scandals is something that was just not part of the smartest-president-in-history bargain—as if once upon a time America ever demanded, “What the hell is your hope and change?”
So as they say here in Selma, “Get over it”.
BBBOOOMMMMM - VDH DELIVERS AS ALWAYS.
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LANDSLIDE !!!
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nonsense - had the media vetted him properly and properly vetted his fake bio
Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence.
for what it was - a fabrication
I've already objected!
he never would have one the primary. His entire narrative and message and claims were based on complete falsehoods meant to seduce a desperate public.
Objection! Again! Assumes facts not in evidence.
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Another epic backfire for the village idiot.
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http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/06/18759-sheriff-joe-slams-obama-says-that-he-has-forensic-proof-birth-certificate-is-a-forgery/
I can't believe this birther shit is still alive.
I get this is fun stuff to fuck around with on message boards and the like, but I don't see how you hard core Republicans don't realize this hurts your party. Most people looking at this shit just shake their heads.
If you want candidates elected, you need people outside the Republican party to vote, and this is just a massive turn-off.
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I can't believe this birther shit is still alive.
I get this is fun stuff to fuck around with on message boards and the like, but I don't see how you hard core Republicans don't realize this hurts your party. Most people looking at this shit just shake their heads.
If you want candidates elected, you need people outside the Republican party to vote, and this is just a massive turn-off.
**THIS** ^
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Stupid people cling to stupid excuses. It's the only way they can cope with life.
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Obam = FAIL
No record at ocvidntwl
No rrcord at columbia
No record at Harvard
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333- FAIL
Obama - POTUS
Obama - American born citizen
Obama - still married
Obama - not quitting
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Obam = FAIL
No record at ocvidntwl
No rrcord at columbia
No record at Harvard
No released record isn't the same as no record.