Can we discuss Wayne Allyn Root, because this is all over fb.

[graywarrior]

You may need to exit the page once to avoid the popup and then go back into it. This is really bringing out the Obama haters at fb.

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama%E2%80%99s-college-classmate-the-obama-scandal-is-at-columbia/

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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.

[Posteritatis]

1. Anyone making an argument who says "prove me wrong" drops off my "take seriously" list. (nt)

[Initech]

53. +1000000

[RandiFan1290]

2. From Glen Beck's site?

lol no thanks

[graywarrior]

4. Is that really Beck's site?

[RandiFan1290]

8. Yeah

Sadly, I listen to a lot of rw radio during crazy season.

[graywarrior]

11. Always keep track of the enemy.

You have a stronger stomach than I do, that's for sure.

[TeamPooka]

47. don't worry the MSM is there to do it for us

all they will do is tell us what the RW thinks about everything.

[Quantess]

21. I might listen to Glenn Beck too

if he turned the crazy dial up just a notch. His entertaining moments are too few and far between for me to sit through all of it.

[arcane1]

3. Glenn Beckian nonsense

and childish "I know you are but what am I" bullshit to hide the fact that they have nothing

[graywarrior]

7. Man, I really need to stop posting cats and pay attention to these things.

[arcane1]

15. Now you know, so keep posting cats! :)

[graywarrior]

31. k

[hifiguy]

5. College classes do not take attendance

save perhaps on the first day of the term. I stopped reading after that.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

23. Even if they did...

Your attendance record would not show up on your college transcripts.

[a la izquierda]

29. Umm, yeah they do.

Not all professors, but many, many do, especially in small colleges where discussion is an integral part of the grade.
I don't take attendance, but some of my colleagues do.

[hifiguy]

34. Could well be. I got my B.A. at a large state university

and the only time the roll was taken was in recitation or lab sessions. Not that it would have been on my transcript in any case.

[a la izquierda]

37. No, certainly not on any transcript at schools large or small...

and I should've written that.
Some profs at large universities take attendance, too. It really depends, nowadays. When I was an undergrad, in the mid-'90s, there was a 3 absence policy: 3 misses, and you automatically failed the class. Yeesh.
My policy is if you miss class, you're probably going to fail simply because you're not there to participate, and you won't get the nuances of discussion and lecture.
That, and you'll miss quizzes.
But I could give a rat's arse if my students don't come to class. Their loss. I really don't have an attendance problem, though. I have very good students.

[nadinbrzezinski]

64. I got both bachelors and masters at a large public university

They did, most of my profs did...just for accuracy sake. One of them did it the HS way, everybody was assigned a seat in the grid. It was also a cass with very high demand and you could lose your spot in the first three weeks for ack of it.

My husband is currently attending a JC. All his profs take roll.

I suspect one reasons for that is increased demand.

In fact, mine was the largest in the system.

[progressivebydesign]

44. they don't show up in your transcripts. n/t

[Maraya1969]

58. Now that I think of it when I have gotten copies of my transcripts there were no attendance

records on them from either school that I went to. And truthfully it would look a little silly. Maybe that might be a professor's way of deciding your grade but I doubt it would show up on your transcripts.

[1StrongBlackMan]

66. But do ...

the attendance reports of those colleagues that take attendance show up on college transcripts?

[RZM]

33. Most don't, but some do

In a large class, it's rarely taken in lecture, but usually is in discussion section. That's been my experience, anyway. But as mentioned above, it's done informally and wouldn't be on any transcript.

[RedCappedBandit]

45. SUNY colleges I attended sure do. Automatic F with a given number of absences.

[JoePhilly]

51. That was my first thought as well!

[nichomachus]

62. Ivies don't

When I taught at a state college, I found out the hard way that I had to. I actually had a student tell me, "if you didn't take attendance, I wouldn't come to class."

[uponit7771]

6. College records != tax records

[HappyMe]

9. lol!

Nah. Looks like a creative writing exercise. Or something.

[Kalidurga]

10. First off

It wasn't Obama that started this. I forget who she was that started it. Secondly this hasn't been a requirement before. Maybe it should be a requirement, but lets get the old requirements met before we move on to new ones. Thirdly, we already know Obama graduated with honors. Fourthly, are we back to that birther nonsense again, give me a break.

[graywarrior]

14. I know, it never ends, does it?!

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Yeah, like I'd believe anything that Tea Bagger says. Says he doesn't remember Obama!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root

He was the 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee.

His political talk radio show,W.A.R: The Wayne Allyn Root Showis broadcast in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Root is a frequent guest on several nationally syndicated radio shows such as Savage Nation, The Jerry Doyle Show, and Mancow's Morning Madhouse. He has also made numerous appearances on various programs on the Fox News Channel. He is a frequent speaker at Tea Party events across the United States.[3]

Root's political columns appear in the Las Vegas Review Journal[4] and at Newsmax.com.[5]

"Root claims that he does not have any recollection of having met or seen Obama at Columbia..[7]"

[Fawke Em]

39. So he goes from not knowing him to knowing him well enough

to see that he wasn't attending class, getting great grades and on a foreign student scholarship?



What rubes!

[Kingofalldems]

13. Is he the football game picker?

[RedStateLiberal]

16. Has any politician ever released college records?

This is not a typical part of the vetting process for candidates. At least, not that I'm aware of.

Tax returns, however, ARE relevant and typically released by politicians - thanks to Romney's own father.

False equivalency. They're just digging for dirt because they have no legitimate arguments against Obama, what he's done as president and his proposed policies.

[Ganja Ninja]

17. Wayne Allyn Root is a scam artist from Las Vegas.

A while back he was running a football betting scam. The kind you hear on the radio offering inside information and "stone cold locks" of the week if you subscribe to his service. He's scum and he's got nothing.

[graywarrior]

18. lol, thank you!

[Ganja Ninja]

20. he must have figured out that football season is only a few months long but ...

You can scam Teabaggers all year long.

[Javaman]

19. facebook in nothing more than the latest version of the chain email...

if you read it on FB take it with a pound of salt.

I can't wait till I get "friended" by someone from Nairobi wanting me to help them out with a sizable amount of money they just inherited.

[graywarrior]

26. But but...fb allows me to hide in plain site of certain family members!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. President Obama's school transcripts are the "new" Birth Certificate?

Am I correct?


What exactly are these people trying to prove (except how little of a "life" they have)?

[HughBeaumont]

25. Oh, they want his medical records released too!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021020818

So now, in addition to "Birfers", we have "Healthers" and "Schoolers"!!



They all fall in the same box for me . . . the "President Ni##er" people. That's all they are, and this is their "politically correct" way of saying that. They all wish it was the 1950s, when everything was separate and "everyone else" knew their place and bowed to the white man's every whim.

[Kalidurga]

35. Ok I was kidding when I said that Obama should do a record dump.

I said that Obama should release everything from his birth certificate, his grades from k-12, his college transcripts, if he ever got a ticket, his library card info and throw in a urine sample to boot. I was kidding about the urine sample. Guess someone takes those urine samples a little to seriously.

[gollygee]

24. Somebody did make this comparison to me

When I said that Romney was hiding something, he said, "Well what is Obama hiding about his college records?" And I said, and I'll stand by it, that a record of what Obama got in Philosophy 101 that long ago is not parallel to whether Romney paid the taxes he should have, or for that matter any taxes at all, especially in the very recent past.

[IggleDoer]

27. Did Root release his college records...

... Las Vegas betting scam artist. Show some credibility yourself!

It's like the swift boaters ... said they were with Kerry in Niet Nam but really they meant that they were in the same geographical area.

[JHB]

28. To state the obvious, Obama has a bit of a track record after college...

Romney's tax returns are his track record.

[southernyankeebelle]

30. Since when have their college grades been important? I don't remember any other

president having to do that.

[sinkingfeeling]

32. "Root claims that he does not have any recollection of having met or seen Obama at Columbia.."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root

[TeamPooka]

36. Why is this BS even posted here?

this right wing wishful propaganda has no place on DU unless there is a "Bullshit" section.

[graywarrior]

38. Watch your step.

GW

[TeamPooka]

41. okay let's waste our time with paranoid right wing conspiracy theories

run with it
have fun

[graywarrior]

42. Better watch your tone

I know how the game is played here. Been here a looonnnggggg time.

[TeamPooka]

43. your OP says "Can we?" so I'm answering/discussing that and all you do is Threaten/warn?

where's the dialogue here?
Crushed by the OP who asked the question he doesn't want answered or only wants his answer.
Next time make a statement and don't ask a question you don't want answered.
Now go watch yourself and don't bother to try to intimidate me again if you can't discuss your own thread issue.

[graywarrior]

46. .

[TeamPooka]

48. you and I are on the same team

I'm just nicer

[graywarrior]

52. I'm nicer

[jobycom]

56. Probably because this is a political discussion group?

That would be my guess, anyway.

[graywarrior]

65. !

[sendero]

40. Funny...

... I'm sure this guy thinks he's making a point. What he probably doesn't realize is that the point is "I'm a fucking idiot".

[Marrah_G]

49. I hate giving these whackos more internet traffic

[nichomachus]

63. Well, it educated me

My Fox-addicted sister was going on the other day about Obama's college records. I didn't have the guts to ask her what she was talking about, but now I know.

[apnu]

50. I use this factcheck.org link to debunk all this college records bullshit.

http://factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/

I tell them to read it and weep.

[Strega Ribiera]

54. Thanks for the link.

I bookmarked it for easy access!

[Maraya1969]

55. Easy. The winner of who is going to be the Harvard Law Review's editor is chosen with just numbers

assigned to the candidates applying. The candidate who achieves the greatest score wins the position of Editor of The Harvard Law Review. No one knows who is applying or whose test they are reading.

He couldn't be stupid. He has to be a very very smart man or a man who studied and went to class and did everything a very successful man would do.

[Lex]

57. Romney needs to release his tax records and prove he actually paid taxes! Then we'll discuss

whatever Obama may release.

[watercolors]

59. I went to fact check, such a hoax!

Family member posted it on my FB, so I put all of the items of fact check on her FB! Guess I'm gone from her page! She has posted so much hatred & lies, I try to ignore but today was a tipping point. So much hatred distrubs me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

60. D) Damn why dd anybody forget to inform me of these

Non- existent beanies?

I will just point out that every grant/ aid I ever saw had the requirement of us citizen.

[jobycom]

61. His claims have been so debunked in the past there's not much need to do any more research.

Snopes has the truth on his allegations. Like, his roommates at Columbia have talked about him, he published a paper while there, etc.

Root is just trying to keep his name in lights.