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.
Source: Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:28am by Wayne Allyn Root
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
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