That gives you an idea of how difficult it was to transfer to an Ivy school yet Barack Obama was accepted as a transfer to Columbia, a college often rated fourth in the country in US News & World Report’s annual ranking. Did Columbia relax its standards over a course of just two decades or was something else at work that permitted him to do it? 

We don’t know and we should. If the media weren’t all over that story, then the Republicans should have been all over it either in 2008 or in the years since. They’ve had all this time to ferret out the information. If Obama’s forces had blocked access to those records, as rumored, that should have been made news. They all fell down on their jobs. 

Columbia University is a case study in and of itself. It has been a hotbed of radicalism since the 1920s. Franklin D. Roosevelt drew much of his ‘brain trust’ from Columbia. Rexford Tugwell, one of his chief advisors had been a professor there. He despised the free market, expressing open admiration for Josip Stalin and Benito Mussolini and their suppression of political liberty. There were others. Some of the worst campus riots in the 1960s occurred at Columbia. It’s traditions are as chicly radical as any American college. 

Barack Obama also came under the influence of Frank Marshall Davis. A poet and author of a pornographic novel, Davis was a long time newspaper columnist. He was also a full bore communist for much of his adult life and remained an unrepentant one until his death. He wrote flattering poetry about Stalin and Mao. This has been well known by the news media yet it remains unpublicized by everyone! 

Has that exposure affected Barack Obama? His rhetoric and record bespeak a philosophy rooted in Marxism. 

Barack Obama came up through the Chicago Democratic political machine, notorious for being among the most corrupt in the country, a reputation earned decades ago. Tom Brokaw once joked that Chicago was called such a political city that in every election the dead voted once and the living voted twice. It was under the original Mayor Richard Daley that the saying, "Vote early and often" developed. 

In every other state, in national elections, the urban vote came in first and the rural vote later. Not so in Illinois. Daley would withhold the Cook Country results to see if the results could be ‘adjusted’ to swing the state into the Democratic column which bring him added influence in Washington for pork.

Obama came up through that. His rise was meteoric. Who did he owe? 

Then there was the Bill Ayers-Bernadine Dohrn connection the media never investigated. Obama began his first political campaign in Ayer’s living room. Dohrn and Ayers were New Left terrorists in the 1960s. 

There has been a tendency in American politics to lionize and develop personality cults around liberal Democrats with Ivy League backgrounds and the mainstream media overlook any unpleasantries in their backgrounds. Never was this truer than with Barack H. Obama. 

History has been very kind to FDR despite his disastrous economic management that prolonged the Depression by years but at least he had been governor of the nation’s largest state at the time, New York, and Undersecretary of The Navy. John Kennedy had a decent legislative record and William Clinton had extensive executive background as governor of Arkansas. 

Barack Obama’s portfolio was as thin a strand of linguine and his background more suspect than any president in history. He unhesitatingly associated with terrorists, communists and others of a sordid nature, yet he got away with all of it. The Left got him a pass. But you have to give him credit, he got away with the most successful political con job in American history. 

Face it, everyone. We’ve been had.



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