Meet Professor Henry Graff, perhaps the most legendary and honored professor ever at Columbia University. He was THE American History and Diplomatic History professor at Columbia for 46 years. And he is more emphatic than yours truly that there are no Obama footprints at Columbia.
I was put on Professor Graff’s trail by another Columbia classmate, skeptical about Obama’s story. He told me that Professor Graff had been the speaker for the Class of ’53 last weekend at Columbia. My friend was watching Graff answer questions from the crowd when he was asked about Obama at Columbia. Graff said, “I have my doubts he ever went here.”
I did some digging and located Graff’s home phone number. I called him yesterday. Now retired, he was delighted to hear from me. He agreed to go on the record about Obama. Unlike Obama, Professor Graff clearly remembered me. He was thrilled to hear from his former student. I was in several of Graff’s classes and he remembered me like it was yesterday. He sounded great- like he hasn’t lost any of his trademark sharpness in 30 years since we last met.
I was honored to learn that this legendary historian has been following my political career for many years. But he had no such cheery things to say about the President. Graff said, “I taught at Columbia for 46 years. I taught every significant American politician that ever studied at Columbia. I know them all. I’m proud of them all. Between American History and Diplomatic History, one way or another, they all had to come through my classes. Not Obama. I never had a student with that name in any of my classes. I never met him, never saw him, never heard of him.”
Even more importantly, Professor Graff knew the other history and political science professors. “None of the other Columbia professors knew him either” said Graff.
Graff concluded our interview by saying, “I’m very upset by the whole story. I am angry when I hear Obama called ‘the first President of the United States from Columbia University.’ I don’t consider him a Columbia student. I have no idea what he did on the Columbia campus. No one knows him.”
Professor From Columbia Comes Forward Saying Obama Never Attended the University
h/t to Dave G
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbia.asp
Snopes is a NOTORIOUSLY LEFT-WING web site. It very OFTEN shows up in their “opinions”.
Snopes? Seriously? You’re suggestion we pay any attention to what Snopes says? I have found tons of crap on Snopes that have been flat out lies, easily fact checked. Snopes is pure propaganda.
Nathan has a problem with first person information, and relies on leftist propaganda to keep his world intact. Self inflicted ignorance.
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He majored in basket weaving and was busted for dope use. Why else seal those records?
Odd, you would think that a Kenyan would have stood out at Columbia thirty years ago. Maybe Skeeter had a sex change. 😉
All college records are “sealed”. There are hundreds of professors at Columbia why does it matter if one of them doesn’t know him? I’ve taught college courses and wouldn’t be able to tell you everyone in them during the course (300+ students) and will remember close to zero specifically after 30 years
Good point. Obama demands constant attention 24×7 by everyone around him, and nobody remembers him.
Scott Thompson listed his degree as being in accounting and computer science at a time when
computer science was hosted at math, electronics or business departments. Patti Hart listed
her business degree as marketing and economics. But Obama also listed his political science
degree as national security for which there was only one senior year course and one graduate
seminar. Likewise his fellow travelers have managed to hawk their defunct soviet degrees.
Degrees meaningless are when they can bestow and deny them so frivolously.