A quick look on the Snopes website shows that another "Obama is a fraud" rumor has surfaced. This time it's about his junior and senior year at Columbia University, and the rumor is that he never even went. It appears as though the seekers of skeletons in the president's closet are really getting desperate.
Here is part of the wingnutty email that Snopes is quoting:
I have always wondered why NO ONE ever came forward from Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. NO ONE, not one person has ever come forward from his past. VERY VERY STRANGE.
This should really be a cause for great concern.
To those who voted for him, YOU HAVE ELECTED THE BIGGEST UNQUALIFIED FRAUD that America has ever known!
This is very interesting stuff. Sort of adds credence to the idea of The Manchurian Candidate thing having happened here! Stephanopoulos of ABC news said the same thing during the 08' campaign. He too was a classmate of BO's at Columbia class of 1984. He said he never had one class with him.
Was he there?
While he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? Maybe he never attended class! Maybe he never attended Columbia? He won't allow Colombia to release his records either. Suspicious isn't it???
NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA !!!!!!!
Of course the investigative reporters that couldn't find one person (out of 400 surveyed) who remembered Barack Obama at Columbia came from -- you guessed it, Fox News. Wingnut logic at its finest: if you don't know anyone who witnessed an event in person, that must mean the event never happened.
Fortunately, the Mikkelsons are on the job. Their response:
Although Barack Obama may not have been particularly social or memorable during his years at Columbia, it isn't true that "no one ever came forward from Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc."
Then they quote people who actually did know Barack Obama at Columbia and point to written evidence that he was there, including the school's press releases and an article he wrote for the university's magazine in 1983.
Of course, said evidence won't convince conspiracy theorists any more than birth certificates or birth announcements in the paper. For them, there can be only one conclusion:
Can it be that BHO is a complete fraud?? More intrigue concerning "The Man who wasn't there."
Basically what the rumor mongers are saying is that if an African American student attended an Ivy League university with 23,000 students and did well, it was such an extraordinary phenomenon that people MUST remember it decades later. It would be funny if it weren't so said.
The president is so clean, there HAS to be something wrong. There just has to be. Alas, this Democratic president has not given his detractors the satisfaction and supplied them with a nice, juicy sex scandal. That's why wingnut heads keep exploding.
So, if your wingnutty great-aunt sends you one of those emails, here's the link to respond: http://www.snopes.com/...