Obama at Columbia – Or Was He?

Revelations from George Stephanopoulos, Newsweek, and Columbia grads from Israel.

September 4, 2019 Lloyd Billingsley 

The president, “spent the first 20 years of his life going by the nickname Barry,” the former First Lady explains in the 2018 Becoming. “Somewhere along the way, though, he’d stepped into the fullness of his birth name – Barack Hussein Obama.”  Michelle does not note that, in all his writings from 1958 to 1964, the Kenyan Barack Obama mentions nothing about an American wife and Hawaiian-born son. Becoming portrays the future president as an “exceptional” and “gifted” student who “worshipped books.” At Columbia he “consumed volumes of political philosophy as if it were beach reading.”................“I was at Columbia a year behind Obama,” Cooper explained, but “I never knew Obama.” As Cooper recalled, Clinton factotum George Stephanopoulos was a year ahead of Barry and didn’t know him either. Neither did many other Columbia students, including those in Barry’s own class.

“I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever!” That was Columbia alum and Libertarian party vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root in 2008. As Root told Matt Welch of Reason magazine,  he and Obama were both in the 1983 political science, pre-law class at Columbia University. Root and Barry had the same major, same career path and graduated on the same day, but Root “never met him in my life, don’t know anyone who ever met him.”.........To Read More....