Obama’s College Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia’
Posted on August 6, 2012 at
10:28am
Wayne Allyn Root is a former
Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now
serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee. He is the
best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the
Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." His web
site: http://www.rootforamerica.com/
I am President Obama’s classmate
at Columbia University, Class of ’83. I am also one of the
most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I
was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. And I
smell something rotten in Denmark. Obama has
a big skeleton in his closet. It’s his college records. Call it “gut instinct”
but my gut is almost always right. Obama has
a secret hidden at Columbia- and it’s a bad one that threatens to bring down
his presidency. Gut instinct is how I’ve made my living for 29 years since
graduating Columbia.
Obama and his infamous strategist
David Axelrod understand how to play political hardball, the best it’s ever
been played. Team Obama has decided to distract America’s voters by
condemning Mitt Romney for not releasing enough years of his tax returns. It’s the
perfect cover. Obama knows the best defense is a bold offense. Just keep
attacking Mitt and blaming him for secrecy and evasion, while accusing him of
having a scandal that doesn’t exist. Then ask
followers like Senator Harry Reid to chase the lead. The U.S.
Senate Majority Leader appears to now be making up stories out of thin air,
about tax returns he knows nothing about. It’s a
cynical, brilliant, and vicious strategy. Make Romney defend, so he can’t
attack the real Obama scandal.
This is classic Axelrod. Obama has
won several elections in his career by slandering his opponents and leaking
sealed documents. Not only do these insinuations and leaks ruin the credibility and
reputation of Obama’s opponents, they keep them on the defensive and off
Obama’s trail of sealed documents.
By attacking Romney’s tax
records, Obama’s socialist cabal creates a problem that doesn’t exist. Is the
U.S. Senate Majority Leader making up stories out of thin air? You
decide. But the reason for this baseless attack is clear - make Romney
defend, so not only is he “off message” but it helps the media ignore the real
Obama scandal.
My answer for Romney? Call
Obama’s bluff.
Romney should call a press
conference and issue a challenge in front of the nation. He
should agree to release more of his tax returns, only if Obama unseals his
college records. Simple and straight-forward. Mitt should ask “What could
possibly be so embarrassing in your college records from 29 years ago that you
are afraid to let America’s voters see? If it’s THAT bad,
maybe it’s something the voters ought to see.” Suddenly the tables are turned.
Now Obama is on the defensive.
My bet is that Obama will never
unseal his records because they contain information that could destroy his
chances for re-election. Once this challenge is made public, my prediction is
you’ll never hear about Mitt’s tax returns ever again.
Why are the college records, of a
51-year-old President of the United States, so important to keep secret? I
think I know the answer.
If anyone should have questions
about Obama’s record at Columbia University, it’s me. We both
graduated (according to Obama) Columbia University, Class of ’83. We were both
(according to Obama) Pre-Law and Political Science majors. And I thought I knew
most everyone at Columbia. I certainly thought I’d heard
of all of my fellow Political Science majors. But
not Obama (or as he was known then- Barry Soetoro). I never
met him. Never saw him. Never even heard of him. And none
of the classmates that I knew at Columbia have ever met him, saw him, or heard
of him.
But don’t take my word for it. The Wall Street
Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News randomly called 400 of our Columbia
classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.
Now all of this mystery could be
easily and instantly dismissed if Obama released his Columbia transcripts to
the media. But even after serving as President for 3 1/2 years he refuses to
unseal his college records. Shouldn’t the media be as relentless in pursuit of
Obama’s records as Romney’s? Shouldn’t they be digging into Obama’s past–beyond
what he has written about himself–with the same boundless enthusiasm as Mitt’s?
The first question I’d ask is, if
you had great grades, why would you seal your records? So let’s assume Obama
got poor grades. Why not release the records? He’s president of the free world,
for gosh sakes. He’s commander-in-chief of the U.S. military. Who’d care about
some poor grades from three decades ago, right? So then what’s the problem?
Doesn’t that make the media suspicious? Something doesn’t add up.
Secondly, if he had poor grades
at Occidental, how did he get admitted to an Ivy League university in the first
place? And if his grades at Columbia were awful, how’d he ever get into Harvard
Law School? So again those grades must have been great, right? So why spend
millions to keep them sealed?
Third, how did Obama pay for all
these fancy schools without coming from a wealthy background? If he had student
loans or scholarships, would he not have to maintain good grades?
I can only think of one answer
that would explain this mystery.
Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a
leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange
student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever
change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his
grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to
schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.
If you could unseal Obama’s
Columbia University records I believe you’d find that:
A) He rarely ever attended class.
B) His grades were not those
typical of what we understand it takes to get into Harvard Law School.
C) He attended Columbia as a
foreign exchange student.
D) He paid little for either
undergraduate college or Harvard Law School because of foreign aid and
scholarships given to a poor foreign students like this kid Barry Soetoro from
Indonesia.
If you think I’m “fishing” then
prove me wrong. Open up your records Mr. President. What are you afraid of?
If it’s okay for U.S. Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid to go on a fishing expedition about Romney’s taxes
(even though he knows absolutely nothing about them nor will release his own),
then I think I can do the same thing. But as Obama’s Columbia Class of ’83
classmate, at least I have more standing to make educated guesses.
It’s time for Mitt to go on the
attack and call Obama’s bluff.
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