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Obama’s Columbia Years — Insight Into His Russia/Nuclear Disarmament Fantasies

Posted By: 'Okie' | 9:55 am — 7/7/2009 | 2 Comments See comments below:

Yesterday Andy McCarthy at The Corner wrote the following about President Barack Obama’s tenure at Columbia University which was finally covered, at teeny bit, in the NY Times:

During the campaign, I wrote a piece called “Why Won’t Obama Talk About Columbia? — The years he won’t discuss may explain the Ayers tie he keeps lying about.” So now, nearly six months into the Obama presidency, the mainstream media has finally done a bit of the candidate background reporting it declined to do during the campaign — other than in Wasilla — and whaddya know? The New York Times unearthed a 1983 article called, “Breaking the War Mentality,” that Columbia student Barack Obama wrote for a campus newspaper. The article shows that Obama dreaded American “militarism” and its “military-industrial interests,” while effusing enthusiasm for the dangerously delusional nuclear-freeze movement.

Moreover, while indicating a preference for the political wisdom of reggae singer Peter Tosh over Ronald Reagan or Scoop Jackson, Obama bewailed the “narrow focus” of anti-militarism activists, worrying that they were targeting the “symptoms” rather than the real “disease,” namely, America’s underlying economic and political injustice:

Seeing as Obama is currently in Russia, getting Putin’s title mixed up with Medvedev’s and extolling the virtues of the former KGB head while at the same time laying the groundwork for unilateral nuclear disarmament by U.S. — whadda think, that the rest of the world is gonna disarm because we say, “Pretty please?” Now, all Prez BHO has to do is agree to stop the missile defense installation in Poland and the Ruskies will play nice and get rid of 1/3 of their arsenal. Why, he’s even declared that this is such a big time emergency that maybe the Senate’s ratification would have to be side-stepped for expediency’s sake.

The Anchoress has an idea of why the Obama administration is in such a hurry to make this a done deal:

Well, that is, if the deal actually does put in place an effective verification system and doesn’t amount to a de facto unilateral disarmament. With exactly five months to win Senate approval, the effort by the Obama White House in floating this idea now makes it sound like Obama wants to give away the store in order to score some points with his 1980s no-nukes agenda. And as much as the Democrats howled over the supposed devotion of George Bush to a “unitary executive,” Obama seems to have no trouble bypassing the check on executive power for treaty negotiation written explicitly into the Constitution, in Article II, Section 2.

Such a deal! Still, if you consider Obama’s proclivities from his Columbia years, all this make perfect sense. Would have been nice to know some of this last Summer and Fall, eh? Laer at Cheat-Seeking Missiles calls for a whole lot more lookin’ into Obama’s collegiate past!

So now, way too belatedly, the NYT has found one measly article and written a story about it. Obama was in college for eight long years and left many, many more footprints than this one article. The marginalized media can never overcome the black mark [can I say "black mark?"] earned from its lack of negative coverage during the campaign – but that shouldn’t stop it from finally covering the story now.

Our MSM’s Obama coverage has been constant adulation — almost as disgusting as what they’re giving today to the memorial service for the “King of Pop”. As the American public will begin to find out as the college years of President Obama are revealed over time, they’ve bought themselves one hell of a big “pig in a poke”! McCarthy wraps it up perfectly.

Who knew?

Nice as it is of the media to scratch the surface journalists should have been mining over a year ago, the current disastrous straits for the country are that — as Jen Rubin contends at contentions — the Obama who is off to Russia to cut unratifiable deals with the recrudescent Soviets hasn’t really changed in the ensuing quarter-century.

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  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ Reaganite Republican

    Sadly for us, it appears that Obama’s poker skills are in the same league with his bowling and girly-style baseball throw.

    Russia recieved much of what it wants before Obama even landed, i.e. council with NATO, so how would anybody expect Barack to gain advantage? Meanwhile, the Kremlin has failed even to comply with the terms of the truce signed with Georgia last year- continuing to do pretty much as it pleases.

    I don’t see any reason to be doing deals with the Russians- they have nothing to offer the United States, IMO.

  • Jack Reylan

    If securities rules applied to federal research grants, half the professors would be in jail! Obama’s constituencies are universities, lawyers and unions. The universities are in it for the grants. Any Republican that votes money for universities is a traitor.

    UPI June 6, 1992 Sovern took over at Columbia after student protests of 1968 and New York’s fiscal problems in the ’70s resulted in less financial support for the school, a situation made more dire by recent federal government budget cuts. . . But Columbia will be looking for a new president in a period troubled by criticism for destroying records that were being reviewed for improprieties. Universities in general have been under greater scrutiny for how they charge the government for federally sponsored research.

    http://documents.nytimes.com/obama-s-1983-college-magazine-article#p=1

    They love third world students because they don’t expect the professors to work for the tuition! Surely You Are Joking Feynman p 215 “If I ask you a question during the lecture, afterwards everybody will be telling me, ‘What are you wasting our time for in the class? We’re trying to learn something. And you’re stopping him by asking a question’.”

    When Obama falls in 2010, we should go through the grant-grubbing Ivy Leagues that produce commie-nutty organizers with a flame thrower! Ivy League universities are not good at getting students jobs, only grants to be commie nutty organizers. If you are liberal, anything you do is inherently ethical for the cause, but if you are a conservative, and believe in GOD, family or business, your very moral fiber, even down to trivial autonomic responses, is subject to persecution as either dangerously criminal or the result of clinical illness. Bush 43 had two Ivy degrees and they treated him as stupid because he was conservative even though he had better grades and entrance scores and took a lot tougher courses than Gore. Professors are the ultimate molestor high priests because they extort and control your transcripts and your grants if you turn them in. Like a cult, they will make your children denounce you and everything you stand for as unworthy. The lowest level university bureaucrats actually suffer the worst affectations and are likey to be the most vicious persecutors of your children. No business ever trusts such left wing graduates who don’t believe in capitalism and become crooks because they are taught the only way business makes money is crooked so they seek to avenge their unemployability through their own crookedness. The universities consider real jobs and competition beneath them, so they want their little sissies to live off grants, even in the hard sciences or business. How many of their engineering professors have Professional Engineering certification? Almost none! They love foreign students because they slave up and don’t expect professors to actually work for the tuition, like American students do. No middle class parent should consider sending their kids there, because these schools will destroy your entire family. The only schools that understand middle-class values are for-profits. Middle class parents foolish enough to buy into the Ivy League dream die way too young.