Ghost of Columbia- Part II: Legendary Columbia Professor Never Heard of Obama
Wayne Allyn Root is the author of ”The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide,” available now.
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.
Editor’s note: Wayne Allyn Root joined
us on the June 4, 2013 edition of the BlazeCast. He discusses his
experience at his 30th class reunion at Columbia and answers extensive
questions about his theories about Barack Obama at Columbia:
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