Continuation of Obama: Change to be afraid of... Obama's Occidental and Columbia years

Obama's Collage Years
From Dreams From My Fathers

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

Who were Barack Obama's Friends? Obama attended Occidental college between the years of 1979-81

Jim Hoft from Gateway Pundits reports:
Barack Obama’s first public speech was at an Occidental College event sponsored by the Students for Economic Democracy a branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED]. Far Left radical Tom Hayden who met with Marxist officials several times during his antiwar career chaired this fringe group in the late 70′s and early ’80′s. Several of the CED principal activists were also veterans of the Hayden-campaign and of the very radical group, Students for a Democratic Society.

The article goes on to day this:

"Tom Hayden wrote this on Barack Obama at the far left Common Dreams website recently:
I didn’t see him coming. When I heard of the young state senator with a background in community organizing who wanted to be president, I was at least sentient enough to be interested. When I read Dreams of My Father, I was taken aback by its depth. This young man apparently gave his first public speech, against South African apartheid, at an Occidental College rally organized by Students for Economic Democracy, the student branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy [CED] which I chaired in 1979-82. The buds of curiosity quickened. Soon I was receiving emails from David Peck, an organizer of the Occidental rally, who now is coordinating Americans in Spain for Barack Obama.

Tom Hayden
As a young man, Tom Hayden was a principal organizer of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which became the leading radical organization of its day. The then-22-year-old Hayden authored the SDS political manifesto, known as the Port Huron Statement, which the group’s founding members adopted in 1962. This document condemned the American political system as the cause of international conflict and a variety of social ills -- including racism, materialism, militarism, and poverty.

Among the most visible and outspoken mouthpieces of the pro-Communist camp during the Vietnam War era, in the early 1970s Hayden organized -- along with his wife Jane Fonda, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy -- an “Indo-China Peace Campaign” (IPC) to cut off American aid to the regimes in Cambodia and South Vietnam. The IPC worked tirelessly to help the North Vietnamese Communists and the Khmer Rouge (led by Pol Pot) emerge victorious. Hayden and Fonda took a camera crew to Hanoi and to the “liberated” regions of South Vietnam to make a propaganda film titled Introduction to the Enemy, whose purpose was to persuade viewers that the Communists were going to create an ideal new society based on justice and equality.

In 1962 Hayden wrote Port Huron Statement a political manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society.

Which read in part:
"Disobey your parents: burn your money: you know life is a dream and all of our institutions are man-made illusions effective because YOU take the dream for reality. … Break down the family, church, nation, city, economy; turn life into an art form, a theatre of the soul and a theatre of the future; the revolutionary is the only artist. … What's needed is a generation of people who are freaky, crazy, irrational, sexy, angry, irreligious, childish and mad: people who burn draft cards, burn high school and college degrees; people who say: "To hell with your goals!"; people who lure the youth with music, pot and acid; people who re-define the normal; people who break with the status-role-title-consumer game; people who have nothing material to lose but their flesh. …"

These words were read in front of House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1968.

Hayden later was a founding member of Progressives for Obama, a matrix of radicals who supported Obama's presidential candidacy.


Lawrence Goldyn, mentor, openly gay liberal professor who had a strong influence on Obama’s acceptance of gays at Occidential and probably Obama’s first introduction to Tom Hayden.

I was able to track down this list from www.tyleralpern.com... that includes the names of articles written my Lawrence Goldyn.
"Only two issues were published of this title, and both are rare.Issue Number One of "Magnus: A Journal of Collective Faggotry" (Summer 1976) published out of San Francisco by the Magnus Collective. A superior gay left publication issued during the heady days of the gay liberation movement, and named after pioneer, militant German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a quality Newsweek-size stapled magazine containing 52 pages including front and rear covers.With magnificent photographs and artwork, contents include: "Karl's Color-Coordinated Contradictions" by Lawrence Goldyn (in two sections: "How a Marxist Understands the World" and "How a Marxist Understands Gay Liberation")"

Issue Number Two (Final Published) of "Magnus" now subtitled "A Socialist Journal of Gay Liberation" (Summer 1977) published out of San Francisco by the Magnus Collective. A superior gay left publication issued during the heady days of the gay liberation movement, and named after pioneer, militant German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a quality Newsweek-size stapled magazine containing 52 pages including front and rear coversWith magnificent photographs and artwork, contents include:
www.rainbowhistory.org... I was only able to find the 1976 edition online but added it for reference.

Rupee News reports:
In 1981, Obama visits his mother and half-sister in Indonesia, and then continues on for three weeks to Karachi, Pakistan and Hyderabad, India, with his friends Chandoo and Hamid, and finally to Kenya to visit his father's family.One of Obama's hosts in Pakistan is Muhammadian Mian Soomro, Obama's senior by 11 years, son of a Pakistani politician and himself a politician, who later becomes interim President of Pakistan when Pervez Musharraf resigns in August of 2008. Soomro states that "someone" personally requested that he watch over Barack Obama, but Soomro will not name that individual – who today allegedly lives in South America.

Who is Muhammad Mian Soomra? This from Wiki

Banker
An internationally recognized professional banker, Soomro held various top positions both at home and abroad in national and international organizations. He has also worked in important positions for major banks:

* Bank of America
* General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of International Bank of Yemen
* Faysal Islamic Bank of Bahrain
* Muslim Commercial Bank
* Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan
* Federal Bank of Cooperatives
* National Bank of Pakistan

Soomro earned great recognition for his achievements during his time with these organizations. He was also instrumental in the establishment of microcredit banking in Pakistan.

He also held a position at the board of directors of Shell Pakistan Ltd.
Governorship

Soomro's public service role started with his appointment as the Governor of Sindh on 25 May 2000.
Chairman of the Senate

Soomro resigned from the office of Sindh Governor on 26 December 2002 to contest the Senate elections. He was elected as a Senator on 23 February 2003 and was subsequently elected as Chairman of the Senate on 12 March 2003.
Caretaker Prime Minister

Soomro was appointed as caretaker prime minister on 15 November 2007, at the expiration of the term of the previous prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, ahead of a new parliamentary election. On 16 November, Soomro was sworn in as prime minister by President Pervez Musharraf. His term ended on 25 March 2008, when Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani was sworn in as prime minister.
President of Pakistan

As required by the constitution, Soomro (in his position as Chairman of the Senate) automatically became President on 18 August 2008, upon the resignation of Musharraf.The constitution also required that a new President be elected by Parliament within 30 days.

Asif Ali Zardari was elected President and subsequently sworn in on 9 September 2008, succeeding Soomro.


From Politico:
As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis In 1981, Obama transferred from Occidental to Columbia. In between, he traveled to Pakistan - a trip that enhanced his foreign policy qualifications, he maintained in a private speech at a San Francisco fundraiser last month. Obama spent “about three weeks” in Pakistan, traveling with Hamid and staying in Karachi with Chandoo’s family, said Bill Burton, Obama’s press secretary.


This from ablogger who one of the founders of the anti-apartheid group that President Obama mentions in his book, Dreams of My Father.
"I met him for the first time in late December 1980. By then, I was in my second year of graduate school at Cornell. I was visiting a girlfriend who was still attending Occidental College who introduced me to him and his friend Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, a wealthy Pakistani student.

My most vivid memory of my time visiting with Obama was the way he strongly argued a rather simple-minded version of Marxist theory. I remember he was passionate about his point of view. As I remember, he was articulating the same Marxist theory taught by various professors at Occidental College. Based on my more detailed studies at Cornell, I remember I made a strong argument that his Marxist ideas were not in line with contemporary reality - particularly the practical experience of Western Europe."


In San Francisco on April 7th, 2008 speaking at a fundraiser Obama stated:
So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa--knowing the leaders is not important--what I know is the people. . . .""I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college--I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . ."
It is unknown who financed Obama's costly 1981 trip.
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Dr. John Drew met Barack in 1980 in Los Angeles, California where Obama was a sophmore Occidental College. The following is fromNewsmax

"During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.
“Barack and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”
For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.
“He was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.
“The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”
Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.”

Obama moves to New York.
I was unable to find much information about Obama's Columbia years.

The New York Sun Reports:
"Federal law limits the information that Columbia can release about Mr. Obama's time there. A spokesman for the university, Brian Connolly, confirmed that Mr. Obama spent two years at Columbia College and graduated in 1983 with a major in political science. He did not receive honors, Mr. Connolly said, though specific information on his grades is sealed. A program from the 1983 graduation ceremony lists him as a graduate."

In aninterview Wayne Allyn Root discussed Obama saying in part:
"Class of '83 political science, pre-law Columbia University. You don't get more exact than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, 20th reunion, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! Who was he, and five years ago, nobody even knew who he was."

Obama spoke of his time attending Columbia saying:
"As he pursued a political science degree, specializing in international relations, Obama says he was somewhat involved with the Black Students Organization and participated in anti-apartheid activities. “Mostly, my years at Columbia were an intense period of study,” he says. “When I transferred, I decided to buckle down and get serious. I spent a lot of time in the library. I didn’t socialize that much. I was like a monk.”

I found this interesting from Obama File.

"Obama and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers were at college -- within a quarter mile of each other -- for two years in 1982 and 1983.
When Obama was at Columbia, Ayers was at Bank Street College (BSC), where he received an M.A. in Early Childhood Education -- 371 yards down the street.
BSC has no student housing, everyone lives off Campus. Columbia DOES have housing and encourages students to live on campus. However, Fox News interviewed 400 former students from his graduating class and no-one remembers him!
Presumably Obama lived off campus also.
Obama and Ayers had mutual friends. One was Edward Said, the left-wing Columbia superstar was just recently out of hiding. It is inconceivable, given their concentric politics, that they did not know each other.
Obama won't release his transcripts (actually he won't reveal any documentation from his past). Was it because it would reveal his ties to Ayers, a class in common (BSC has collaborations with Columbia), or maybe a common street address?"

Edward Said was a professor at Columbia from 1963-2003 when he died.
This from debbieschlussle.com
"It is possible that the pair had met when Obama was a student and Said a professor at Columbia University. The Los Angeles Times has reported that Obama took at least one course taught by Said. It is possible, too, that Said and Obama ran in the same radical New York circles. Among Said's friends and allies on the America-phobic, Arafat-loving left was none other than Bill Ayers. When Ayers published his memoir Fugitive Days in 2001, Said was happy to provide a blurb. "For anyone who cares about the sorry mess we are in," wrote Said, "this book is essential, indeed necessary reading."

Interesting.... Another connection to Bill Ayres.

You can read more about Obama's Columbia days at Obama File. The United States Library of Congress has selected TheObamaFile.com for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials.


To Be Continued....

Wonderful work and I'm enjoying going through your threads today.

As I learn more about the people Obama surrounds himself with, his true self becomes more and more apparent. He not only sought the White House, he is interested in a Coup of sorts and the elimination of the Constitution he see's as an inconvenience.

He clearly seeks to return to a time when Royalty, the Elite ruled us completely and to tear down the system they created after escaping the tyranny of the elite in Europe. While the rest of the world runs towards what we were just a generation ago, he is running head long over the cliff to return us to the system that caused our ancestors to flee to America for a life of Freedom.

Again great work....

What will the next years cover?

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Thank you and I agree. I don't have links together but could get them if you want, there are x ray vans driving around and they can see right into your house, they are trying to break encryption on web based devices so the government can spy on you. It has become crazy! Now they are saying the president can order the assassination of US citizens. People get out and vote for your country!

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Harvard.... Then Chicago....

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All I see here is links to blogs and speculation. No HARD FACTS.

I think we're all well past the point of this obsession. It's a wonderful distraction and while Rome burns, America bleeds and we all wallow in our joblessness and debt, there are people stupid enough to worry more about THIS.

In fact, Obama would be proud of the truthers because if he's a part of TPTB as they claim, they've taken the bait and taken it hard.

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To me it looks like they in their blogs they quote eye witnesses....
and the last i heard that evidence that could be admissible in court of law.. wouldn't you agree?

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Also many times though-out the research the OP has done she refers back to Obama's writings and the writings of the people associated with him...