Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

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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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

 

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.

 

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

 

The liberal media treated Obama with kid gloves.

The Real Story Of Barack Obama

 

Ben says the class exists:

 

The Yale Daily News article is a better source. No mention of the honesty award, though, and only several students fell for it.

Yale Daily News no. 71 January 14 1970 :: Yale Daily News Historical Archive

 

Published four years after he was elected President...

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

No shit.