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Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Oct 7, 2015.

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  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Has any journalist ever documented the "transfer program" between Occidental and Columbia that Obama applied to?

    Indeed, like much else in his biography, Obama seems to have fictionalized the process through which he gained admission to Columbia. Obama writes in Dreams: “[W]hen I heard about a transfer program that Occidental had arranged with Columbia University, I’d been quick to apply”(172).

    However, there is no record of such a “transfer program” existing at either Columbia or Occidental.

    Breitbart News spoke to an official source at the Registrar’s Office of Occidental College, who confirmed that there has only been one transfer program between Occidental and Columbia–one that fed students into Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (known today as the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science).

    Obama, who was not an engineering student, would not have been eligible for that program.

    The official also pulled Occidental’s records between 1970 and 1990, and found no transfer program with any other Columbia University program.

    In addition, Breitbart News spoke with Phil Boerner, who transferred to Columbia from Occidental in 1981, and graduated from Columbia in 1984. He was Obama’s roommate in New York, and is one of the few Columbia students to recall Obama. Boerner, speaking by telephone, denied there was a “transfer program.”

    “You can transfer colleges at any time,” Boerner said, emphasizing that he was not speaking for Obama. “There was no formal arrangement between the two schools.”


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  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Spokesperson's statement sounds reasonable:

    “It’s not surprising that his friends from high school and college wouldn’t recall personal experiences and struggles that happened more than twenty years ago in the same way, and to the same extent, that he does,”

    http://nyti.ms/1L4IEWx
     
  3. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    Problem with the whole "Obama and Clinton do it, too!" argument is that even if the details of their narratives are BS, their narrative isn't the core reason why they've attracted support. Carson can't play the "they do it, too!" card. It goes against his claimed rationale for running.
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    How can you argue that Obama's personal narrative wasn't central to his campaign?
     
  5. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Ben says the class exists:

     
  7. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Published four years after he was elected President...
     
  9. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Keep whining about Obama, losers. He's president. Ben ain't gonna be.
     
  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I don't think there's a single person on this thread who thinks:

    A. Carson is qualified to be President

    2. Will become President

    C. Should not have his backstory vetted
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The fact there was a "Perception" class in 2002 doesn't mean there had been one in 1970.
     
  12. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    No shit.
     
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