And His Face, At First Just Ghostly, Turned A Whiter Shade Of Pale: Barack Obama and The Protocol Harlem - Granite Grok

And His Face, At First Just Ghostly, Turned A Whiter Shade Of Pale: Barack Obama and The Protocol Harlem

I'm Looking Through You!
I’m Looking Through You,
And you’re nowhere!
We all know Barack Obama attended Columbia University: It must be true because his biographies told us so, and it’s where he hung out with Pakistani revolutionaries and his composite girlfriend.

So, Wayne Allen Root, who graduated from Columbia in the same class as Obama, thought it might be fun while attending his 30th reunion to find out who actually remembered ‘Barry’.

Professors, classmates, drinking buddies, choom buddies, girlfriends, boyfriends(?)…

Nobody remembers seeing Obama at Columbia, NOBODY!

Of course, I’m spoofing the song by Procol Harum, but maybe the disappearing act is courtesy ‘The Protocols Of The Elders of Harlem’? Whatever it is, the much-vaunted studies and exploits of one Barack Hussein (Barry) Obama (PBUH) at Columbia seem to have vanished down the same memory hole as his transcripts from Hahvaahd. Take a look at these excerpts from Wayne Allen Root’s articles for The Blaze:

WayneAllenRootI am a graduate of Columbia University, Class of 1983. That’s the same class Barack Obama claims to have graduated from. We shared the same exact major- Political Science. We were both Pre Law. It was a small class- about 700 students. The Political Science department was even smaller and closer-knit (maybe 150 students). I thought I knew, or met at least once, (or certainly saw in classes) every fellow Poly Sci classmate in my four years at Columbia.

GhostOfoungBarryBut not Obama. No one ever met him. Even worse, no one even remembers seeing that unique memorable face. Think about this for a minute. Our classmate is President of the United States. Shouldn’t someone remember him? Or at least claim to remember him?

A point I’ve made to many people – even if someone from the class of ’83 barely knew Obama, they’d be jumping up and down screaming “Me, Me, I knew him!”…But nobody does – strange?

One of the speakers at the 30th reunion should have reminisced about “my days with the future President.” But no one did. You’d think Obama might have sent a video to tell us all how much he enjoyed his time at Columbia. You’d think he’d have sent at least a letter to be read aloud from one of his former college buddies. Right? But he didn’t. Because Obama has no former college buddies. No one that ever met Obama, let alone befriended him, was in attendance at our 30th class reunion. more

Then Root got in contact with a professor who taught him (and would have taught Obama, if he attended). Now you’re asking yourselves “Who the heck is Wayne Allen Root?!”, yet Professor Henry Graff remembered Root well, but had never seen Obama at Columbia:

HenryGraff-PhotoByCUBut until now, I was the only one publicly voicing my suspicions. That just changed in a big way. 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. more

And, for those of you who don’t remember “Whiter Shade of Pale”, Here’s the Beatles’ “I’m Looking Through You!”

I’m looking through you
Where did you go?
I thought I knew you
What did I know?

You don’t look different
But you have changed
I’m looking through you
You’re not the same

Your lips are moving
I cannot hear
Your voice is soothing
But the words aren’t clear

You don’t sound different
I’ve learned the game
I’m looking through you
You’re not the same

You’re thinking of me
The same old way
You were above me
But not today

The only difference
Is you’re down there
I’m looking through you
And you’re nowhere

I’m looking through you
Where did you go?
I thought I knew you
What did I know?

You don’t look different
But you have changed
I’m looking through you
You’re not the same

Lyric from: http://www.metrolyrics.com

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