Top story on CNBC: Trump Takes Aim at Obama's Collegiate Background

[phideaux]

Trump Takes Aim at Obama's Collegiate Background

video here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/48545430

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should release more of his tax returns only after President Obama makes public his college transcripts, real estate magnate Donald Trump said on CNBC. A vocal Romney supporter who once toyed with a run at the top office himself, Trump took up the latest controversy over the president's background — the circumstances under which Obama attended Columbia University. "If I were Mitt Romney, and I'm not, I would say very simply, 'I will release my returns, which are 100 percent legit, everything's fine, if you release the information that we want,'" he said on"Squawk Box." Obama "spends $4 million trying to hide lots of different things that he's done, whether it's his passport records, his college applications and college record." Trump has been at the forefront of the "birther" movement — those who question whether Obama was born in the U.S. Doubts over the president's collegiate background rose again this week in a column in The Blaze written by Wayne Allyn Root, who said he was classmate of Obama's at Columbia. Root claims "Obama has a secret hidden at Columbia." Among his allegations are that the president often missed class, had grades that were not befitting an entrant to Harvard Law School and went to the school as a foreign exchange student and thus was eligible for substantial financial aid. "If I were Romney I would do this: 'I will release my returns if you release the records that you've been trying to shield for the last four years,'" Trump said. Romney critics have challenged his decision to release only the two most recent years of tax returns. The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump's allegations, meanwhile, could get an even bigger sounding board. He said he has been asked to speak at the Republican National Convention in Tampa from Aug. 27-30. "I run a very big business, a great business. Going to the convention and speaking is not my thing," he said. "I enjoy doing it. I've been in politics all my life. I think I've been of great help to Mitt Romney and to the Republican Party. But they do want me there and I will probably be there." A convention spokesman said Trump is not on the list of speakers scheduled so far but that more names will be added in the future.

[phideaux]

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: www.ROOTforAmerica.com [ x ]


wayne@rootforamerica.com
Author's Website

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.

Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee and the author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian.” Read more at his website: www.ROOTforAmerica.com

[Ebie]

This is odd.
Is there a record that Barack Obama graduated from Columbia in '83?
Is there a record of honor roll students?
Is there a record of foreign student aid recepients at Columbia?
Are these records ONLY part of his personal student transcript, or, are they public records?
I've never been to a graduation where the list of graduates was sealed...

[Irons]

Why does anybody listen to this trump a@@hole?

He had hussein by the ovaries and could have pressed the attack on the birth certificate thing and the ridiculously obvious fake he got as a reply and he backed off.

The guy could have been an American hero written about in history books before he was killed and he chickened out.

Worthless piece of blow hard shlt.

[Ebie]

Why does anybody listen to this trump a@@hole?

He had hussein by the ovaries and could have pressed the attack on the birth certificate thing and the ridiculously obvious fake he got as a reply and he backed off.

The guy could have been an American hero written about in history books before he was killed and he chickened out.

Worthless piece of blow hard shlt.

How could he have pressed the attack?
There was no mechanism to do so.
What was Trump to do?
He chose not to die climbing that hill...

[Irons]

How could he have pressed the attack?
There was no mechanism to do so.
What was Trump to do?
He chose not to die climbing that hill...

All he had to do was point out what any 3'rd grader could see, that the BC was a badly edited fake.

I'm not picking on you Ebie, people like trump annoy the piss out of me and the current world is full of them.

Don't pick a fight if you don't have the balls to win it, period. He accomplished nothing by backing off except looking like a sissy.

He flaps his feathers like a peacock on crack and then backs off like a little ankle biter dog. Eff you trump.

[Spike]

Barack Obama Runs On Empty And Toward Defeat

08/03/2012 05:33 PM ET

The social experiment that was Barack Obama's election and presidency is over. Way over.

As one who was born in the heart of Boston and worked the political world of Washington for 20 years, I know quite a few Democrats. Some are family, and many are close friends. Most voted for Obama in 2008. None at this point is inclined to vote for him in 2012.

Why? Because they view him as an abject failure across the board and have decided to put the welfare of their families and themselves before the empty rhetoric of the Obama campaign before it's too late.

Because of my time in Washington and past positions there, I also know and am friends with quite a few journalists. I speak with many on a regular basis, and it's safe to say that the majority of them lean left politically.

That said, in off-the-record conversations with my left-leaning journalistic friends, not one believes Obama is going to win re-election. Not one. While most believe Mitt Romney to be a weak candidate, they are still convinced that he will comfortably defeat Obama on Nov. 6.

These liberal and jaded journalists privately admit that Obama has been exposed for what he is: an overhyped, self-invented candidate with no real-world experience who has been frozen into inaction by the enormity of the office he holds.

Obama has no domestic policy to speak of. He has no foreign policy to speak of. He has no jobs program to speak of. His signature health care plan is driving doctors out of the field, crippling small businesses and putting thousands of Americans out of work.

The Obama of 2012 has nothing positive to run on. Nothing. And guess what? He, more than anyone else in his White House or campaign, knows it.

He knows his election and presidency were social engineering gone wrong. He knows his biography is unraveling faster than the baseball that Roy Hobbs crushed into the rain in the movie "The Natural." He knows that he has run out of all options but one: Go negative on Mitt Romney 24/7 and hope a heretofore compromised mainstream media will once again unethically act as his surrogate.

Unfortunately for Obama, two massive holes exist in his "demonize Romney with an assist from the media" campaign tactic.

First, most Americans who are paying attention to this contest have come to the conclusion that Romney is a very decent and moral person who does have a fairly impressive business background coupled with some other real-world experience.

http://news.investors.com/article/62...ven=OutBrainCP

[phideaux]

All he had to do was point out what any 3'rd grader could see, that the BC was a badly edited fake.

The fight ain't over.

The Donnie is a Toole. He knows it. He loves it. Feeds his ego. But IMHO he will keep the pressure on. Meanwhile the OBF (Obomba Forgery Team) is hard at work forging the college transcripts. Jimmie is working on it after 3rd grade class every day, so it will take time.

[Ebie]

All he had to do was point out what any 3'rd grader could see, that the BC was a badly edited fake.

"Expert" declared it was a minor scanning technological matter of no importance.
End of discussion, since there was nobody official to prove it to.
Can't prove something, if there is no one to prove it to.

[phideaux]

"Expert" declared it was a minor scanning technological matter of no importance.
End of discussion, since there was nobody official to prove it to.
Can't prove something, if there is no one to prove it to.

I'm no expert but I do know quite a bit about scanners and PDFs. It is impossible to create those specific type of layers in the forged document simply by scanning.

Dozens of experts a lot more knowledgeable than me have declared that the layers in the forged document are not scanning artifacts. The layers in the document were added artificially to modify and add to the content of the base document.

Here's one report. Mara Zebest has litereally written the book on PDFs for Adobe for 20+ years.:

[Ebie]

I'm no expert but I do know quite a bit about scanners and PDFs. It is impossible to create those specific type of layers in the forged document simply by scanning.

Dozens of experts a lot more knowledgeable than me have declared that the layers in the forged document are not scanning artifacts. The layers in the document were added artificially to modify and add to the content of the base document.

Here's one report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXY1Ze1H_74

There is no one official to hear these experts.
Only the "expert" of the president's team gets media time.
No one official to complain to.
This is why an apparently obvious matter has gone nowhere for 4 years.

[Ebie]

From Wikipedia:

Nathan Goulding, chief technology officer of the National Review magazine, dismissed the matter of "layered components" found in the White House PDF by suggesting "that whoever scanned the birth certificate in Hawaii forgot to turn off the OCR setting on the scanner." and adding "I’ve confirmed that scanning an image, converting it to a PDF, optimizing that PDF, and then opening it up in Illustrator, does in fact create layers similar to what is seen in the birth certificate PDF. You can try it yourself at home....

In May 2012, the Arizona Secretary of State, Ken Bennett, asked Hawaii to verify Obama's Hawaiian birth to ensure his eligibility to appear on the November ballot. .... Hawaii officially confirmed that the information in the copy of the Certificate of Live Birth for the President matches the original record in their files. Later the same month, the Mississippi state Democratic Party requested Hawaii to verify that the long-form image on the White House website matched the copy on file and they were provided with a certified verification...

- -- -

No one to prove it to, even Sheriff Joe, said the next step was to show the evidence to a federal agency...
It would be interesting if someone could get a slightly more informative article in Wikipedia...

[Ebie]

Joe Stalin had two birth records.
Hitler destroyed his birth town to obscure his origins.
Never made a problem for them...

[phideaux]

The guy from National Review is simply wrong. He is covering up for the Republican't Party's failure to purse disqualification of Obomba.

He uses weasel words like "similar to" No. scanners and optimization do create layers, but they are about as similar to the Obomba fraud document in the same way that an amoeba is a similar life form to an Orangutan.

[Gcubed]

The guy from National Review is simply wrong. He is covering up for the Republican't Party's failure to purse disqualification of Obomba.

He uses weasel words like "similar to" No. scanners and optimization do create layers, but they are about as similar to the Obomba fraud document in the same way that an amoeba is a similar life form to an Orangutan.

Fido, It's up to the House to impeach and the Senate to try him. What are the odds, honestly? Aint gunna happen.

[gringott]

Joe Stalin had two birth records.
Hitler destroyed his birth town to obscure his origins.
Never made a problem for them...

Add Obama to the list.
Missing birth certificate.
Father was not US Citizen [fail on natural born]
Missing name change paperwork.
Only known US passport issued after taking office.
Unknown status at 2 universities - records hidden, Columbia just claims to have found them in July 2012 "lost computer records".
False SSN issued to person born in 1890 [Conneticut]
Ran for state office as member of "New Party" a socialist organization.
Disbarred in Illiinois, unknown reason.
Forged draft registration.

[Gcubed]

The best chance we have at getting rid of Obama is voting for Romney in November. That's just the law of the jungle and the way the cookie crumbles. EOM.

[Oldmansmith]

The best chance we have at getting rid of Obama is voting for Romney in November. That's just the law of the jungle and the way the cookie crumbles. EOM.

There is a better chance of the second coming before November than Massachusetts voting for Romney. I'll be voting third party.

[Ebie]

The best chance we have at getting rid of Obama is voting for Romney in November. That's just the law of the jungle and the way the cookie crumbles. EOM.

The government would not permit vote rigging.

[Gcubed]

There is a better chance of the second coming before November than Massachusetts voting for Romney. I'll be voting third party.

I'm not shocked. Some folks would bet on a snowball not melting in hell. There are those that would cut off their nose to spite their face. I will vote to get rid of Obama.

[Gcubed]

The government would not permit vote rigging.

Ya pays yer money and takes yer chances. I can just do the best I can do.

[Oldmansmith]

I'm not shocked. Some folks would bet on a snowball not melting in hell. There are those that would cut off their nose to spite their face. I will vote to get rid of Obama.

Massachusetts was the only state besides his home state of South Dakota who voted for McGovern. Never in my lifetime has it voted for a Republican presidential candidate. Hell, if Obama admitted he was born in Indonesia they would still vote for him here. In my small town of 860, my wife and I were two of the 12 people who voted in the Republican primary, where we actually had a choice of candidates. A total of 26 people voted for Obama in the Democratic primary, despite the fact that he was running unopposed. Huh?

Maybe in your state your vote in a presidential election counts, but it definitely does not in mine.

[Gcubed]

Massachusetts was the only state besides his home state of South Dakota who voted for McGovern. Never in my lifetime has it voted for a Republican presidential candidate. Hell, if Obama admitted he was born in Indonesia they would still vote for him here. In my small town of 860, my wife and I were two of the 12 people who voted in the Republican primary, where we actually had a choice of candidates. A total of 26 people voted for Obama in the Democratic primary, despite the fact that he was running unopposed. Huh?

Maybe in your state your vote in a presidential election counts, but it definitely does not in mine.

California is fooked up too. Massachusetts can rot with Teddy Kennedy for all I care. I'd have moved away long ago.

[Oldmansmith]

California is fooked up too. Massachusetts can rot with Teddy Kennedy for all I care. I'd have moved away long ago.

The western part of the state is quite nice actually, provided you can ignore the politics.

[phideaux]

What are the odds, honestly?

Slim and none, and Slim just took off to Hawaii on vacation

IMHO the truth will eventually be recognized (after Lord Barry is de-throned).

Somebody in the MainStream will want to earn a Pulitzer Prize for exposing The Greatest Fraud in American History.

[phideaux]

There is a better chance of the second coming before November than Massachusetts voting for Romney. I'll be voting third party.

Ya never know. Obomba is sliding like a toboggan in New England Nor'easter in January in next-door CT.

Obama Leads by Only 8 Points -- in Liberal Connecticut

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/m...-by-eight.html


The margin of error for the poll is 3.5%, so Smittens isn't really all that far behind.

Stranger things have happened.

[phideaux]

The western part of the state is quite nice actually, provided you can ignore the politics.

Agreed.

Jiminy (Cricket) Mountain is a nice (small) place to ski.

[Oldmansmith]

Stranger things have happened.

Like what?

Connecticut, Rhode Island et all voted for Nixon, so it is at least possible there.

[Kingfisher]

Somebody in the MainStream will want to earn a Pulitzer Prize for exposing The Greatest Fraud in American History.

But they will be expelled from the MSM as soon as it gets a whiff of what's afoot. I am amazed at this stuff.

[Unclad Lad]

Trump is like that little Yorkie mix that barks every time someone walks past the house. If there's ever a legitimate threat, you've already tuned him out.

[birddog]

Trump is like that little Yorkie mix that barks every time someone walks past the house. If there's ever a legitimate threat, you've already tuned him out.

No matter how crazy or lame Trump is, the Media will always give him face time. Do you really think the media would have reported anything about 0bama's transcript if it was anyone else saying it?

[phideaux]

No matter how crazy or lame Trump is, the Media will always give him face time. Do you really think the media would have reported anything about 0bama's transcript if it was anyone else saying it?

It's all about ratings and web page hits. They'd listen if it were any Hollywood "celebrity" that Joe and Jane 6P would recognize.

[phideaux]

Obomba's college records issue goes viral!

The pressure is building... Stay tuned...


Rush "I can't do the" Limbo
http://www.therightscoop.com/rush-di...hange-student/

Shamm Hamnity radio
http://www.therightscoop.com/hannity...ne-allyn-root/

Shamm Hamnity TeeVee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=N-OkZjKmp3U

Jerry Corsi at WND
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/claim-abs...n/?cat_orig=us

Steve Forbes at Yahoo
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily...161941805.html

Joe Pags
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=TH0qQI7jXCE

The Donnie with Gretel von whazzhernose
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...eta-obama.html