Obama's Associations - His College Years???
"spent a lot of time in the library. I didn't socialize that much. I was like a monk". That is how Obama described his days at Columbia University from 1981 through 1983, in his book, Dreams from My Father. The University has sealed all of his records, what is he hiding?
Is Obama hiding something from his college days?
Some link mystery years to Ayers, others believe affirmative action at play
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Posted: September 29, 2008
12:44 am Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM "Senator Barack Obama is hiding mediocre grades."
"He's covering up his acceptance into Harvard Law School utilizing a boost from an affirmative action program."
"The presidential candidate is disguising his involvement in radical black organizations or that he first met Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers much earlier than he's publicly admitted."
These are just a few of the explanations from newspaper editorials, pundits and bloggers as to why Obama refuses to release his undergraduate records and has disclosed almost nothing about his days at Columbia University.
Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before transferring to Columbia in 1981. It has been confirmed Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983 with a major in political science and that he did not receive honors, but further information, including transcripts, are sealed by the university.
In his 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Obama goes into detail about certain periods of his life, including his early education and his days at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated magna cum laude and led the Harvard Law Review.
But the Illinois senator just barely touches upon his Columbia days.
Obama wrote he "spent a lot of time in the library. I didn't socialize that much. I was like a monk.
He then immediately moved on to a general philosophical discussion about race in New York, but didn't return to his Columbia experience nor mention any associations with friends or professors at the university.
It is known Obama lived off-campus with a roommate identified as "Sadik," who was not a Columbia student. Obama describes Sadik as "a short, well-built Pakistani" who smoked marijuana and snorted cocaine.
The AP tracked down "Sadik," whose real name turned out to be Sahole Saddiqi. Obama first met him when the two attended Occidental and Obama was living with a group of Pakistani students.
"We were both very lost," Siddiqi told the AP of his days in New York with Obama. "We were both alienated, although he might not put it that way. He arrived disheveled and without a place to stay."
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