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Thursday, September 11, 2008

'Obama's Lost Years'

The Wall Street Journal is wondering why Sen. Barack Obama is being so secretive about his formative years at Columbia University.

"The Columbia years are a hole in the sprawling Obama hagiography," the newspaper notes in an editorial. "In his two published memoirs, the 47-year-old Democratic nominee barely mentions his experience there. He refuses to answer questions about Columbia and New York -- which, in this media age, serves only to raise more of them. Why not release his Columbia transcript? Why has his senior essay gone missing?"

For a man who enjoys talking about himself so much, you have to wonder why he won't discuss his undergraduate years.

From the editorial, Obama's Lost Years:
Such caginess is grist for speculation. Some think his transcript, if released, would reveal Mr. Obama as a mediocre student who benefited from racial preference. Yet he later graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude, so he knows how to get good grades. Others speculate about ties to the Black Students Organization, though students active then don't seem to remember him. And on the far reaches of the Web can be found conspiracies about former Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who became the candidate's "guru and controller" while at Columbia in the early 1980s. Mr. Brzezinski laughs, and tells us he doesn't "remember meeting him."
Read the full editorial at the newspaper's Web site.

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