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Not your average friend - mixing with the very wealthy & connected & to politics and CIA and ISI & Mi6 folks in Pakistan - was Obama really a Marxist leaning college youth or merely 'playing ' a role as a mole ? He meets the head of the Paki Senate while on vacation …? well groomed CIA operative from generations of operatives. Obama’s mother was a regular visitor of Pakistan….Who knows, maybe Drew could very well be an operative too …. but we have the right and duty to ask questions …
Here we have Obama and wealthy Pakistani roommate Mohammed Hasan Chandoo while at Occidental College 1980 -
Who is Hassan Chando?
His family is a prominent family in Pakistan with whom Obama stayed for three weeks in 1981. He is also in the higher echelon of the Democratic party and fundraiser of the East Coast Muslims. His mother, Gulshan Chando, is the grandniece of Ali Jinnah, the founder of present day Pakistan. Her husband attended the same school as Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan and both belong to the same Old Patricians Club in Pakistan. Pervez, former military leader, has formed a new political party in Pakistan, the All Pakistan Muslim League and is seeking a move to lead Pakistan again…..
I can not vouch for Prof Dr Drew but the picture of Obama and Chando - he had is valid; and the people and timeframe as well
I think people especially those who so adamantly supported or support Obama or any other candidate - should be asking questions - blind loyalty is dangerous - if he wants another four year term - ask questions , Democrats ask your candidate questions …
Democrats research your candidate
Republicans should have wondered about the Bush Hitler Fascist connections
Republicans should have asked more questions about the Bush ties to the House of Saud and to oil and to CIA ops and banksters
Republicans should have asked more questions about Cheney
Democrats should have asked more questions about Clinton
KNOW who you are voting for and defending and elevating to power - you do have a choice - you do have a responsibility and - you do have a duty
YOU have to demand and expect accountability and transparency and honesty - not infallibility or perfection but basic accountability and honesty
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"….when Obama attended Occidental College in California in 1979, his freshman roommate was a Pakistani, Imad Husain, who’s now a Boston banker. Also, as a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two more wealthy Pakistani’s who became the reason he travelled to Pakistan in 1981. In Obama’s own words: [ from his book ]
“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
He added:
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
In 1981, Obama went to Pakistan for about three weeks. As a student, Obama visited Larkana for a partridge hunting session. He traveled with Wahid Hamid and staying in Karachi with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo’s family in Karachi and visiting Hyderabad as well. Obama also made friends with Chairman of The Pakistani Senate, Muhammadmian Soomro, who said that in Pakistan he [Obama] came to know about Sunni and Shia sects. According to the report of Larry Rohter of April 10, 2008, in The New York Times, the Obama campaign staff, when questioned about the revelation of Obama’s 1981 trip to Karachi, stated:
“Mr. Obama visited Pakistan in 1981, on the way back from Indonesia, where his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, were living. He spent ‘about three weeks’ there, Mr. Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton, said, staying in Karachi with the family of a college friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, but also traveling to Hyderabad, in India.” "
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2011/05/08/pakistan-outs-cia-station-chief-in-islamabad…/
an interesting note from an old friend of his from the 80's
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Note - the comment by Tom Kovach (a self proclaimed conservative talk show host www.tomkovach.us)
on the picture & info -
"I have said and written for almost three years that Obama was groomed from youth to become what he is: “the Mansourian candidate”. (great-big hat tip to Jack Cashill)http://www.tomkovach.us/
This report confirms that, at age 19, Obama was a more dedicated and better-informed Marxist than a 23-year-old graduate student at Cornell. (And, if you know anything about Cornell University and its home city of Ithaca, NY, then you know that it would take a LOT to be more Marxist than almost ANYone from Cornell — but especially a graduate student in political science.)
Two points are worth noting.
First, the report specifies that Caroline Boss met and befriended Obama in a class that started in the Fall of 1980 at Occidental College. That means that Obama could not have been residing in Hawaii at the time of his draft registration, as he claims to have been. That is a felony. "
tomkovach.us/blog/2008/11/obama_draft_scandal_deepens.html
Second, for a young man that wants to make political friends, and who was raised as a Muslim in the most populous Muslim country on Earth (Indonesia), it is quite telling that Obama’s body language in the photo is insulting to Chandoo. He leans back (superiority), while Chandoon leans forward. More importantly, though, is that Obama is pointing the sole of his boot toward Chandoo. That is a huge insult in the Muslim world. There is no way that Obama can claim ignorance. So, it would appear that Obama “showed deference” to Chandoo when it was to Obama’s advantage, but when relaxing for a photo-op he insults those that he is supposedly there to honor…."
http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/meeting-young-obama/
my note - they were all smoking drinking not acting like strict anything much less Muslim but like the oil royals the rich Muslims do not seem to practice what they preach - much like our wealthy and powerful and rich - rarely are any of any faith 'fundamentalist ' in practice
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February 24, 2011
Meeting Young Obama
By John Drew
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/meeting_young_obama.html John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a blogger at David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog . Dr. Drew earned his Ph.D. from Cornell and has taught political science and economics at Williams College. Dr. Drew makes his living as an author, trainer, and consultant in the field of non-profit grant writing, fund raising and program evaluation
"I met Obama in December of 1980 …… "
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Mon, March 1, 2010
The Andrea Shea King Show - Dr. John C. Drew
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/askshow/2010/03/02/the-andrea-shea-king-show
"The mystery that is Barack Obama is beginning to be unveiled. Tonight, we'll talk to Dr. John Drew knew Obama in 1980. Drew was a Marxist attending Occidental as a grad student. His girlfriend has classes with Obama and during the Christmas break, they all got together. Today Dr. Drew is a political scientist and grant writing consultant who did his Occidental thesis on the topic of Marxist Economics. Tonight he'll tell us his recollections on young Barack Obama’s Marxist perspective in the Fall of 1980. Does he believe Obama has changed his views? Also – George Soros and Arianna Huffington. Their relationship."
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http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/meeting-young-obama/
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B-Cast Interviews Dr John C. Drew On Obama's Early Marxist Years
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, February 13, 2010, 12:14 AM
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/02/b-cast-interviews-dr-john-c-drew-was-obama-a-committed-marxist-in-college/
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Dr. Drew on Young Obama's Marxism - 4 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHit5ypthJU
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Obama’s Cousin Odinga Clears Way to Presidency By Turning Opponents Over to International Court
"In 2006 Barack Obama took a trip to Kenya on the taxpayer’s dime.
While visiting Kenya as a guest of the government Obama campaigned for [his blood cousin ] Raila Odinga, .." connected like Obama to the overthru of the only elected Kenyan leader - thru their fathers and family
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=39f_1302059232
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Obama’s larkana Connection
Submitted by Azhar Masood on July 10, 2008 – 6:13 pm
"….. Obama’s mother was a regular visitor of Pakistan and she had little knowledge of Urdu. Officially Barack Obama has so far not made his Pakistani connections …"
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what we know about Obama and Pakistan:
Muhammad Mian Soomro - Current Head of Pakistani Senate and Former President of Pakistan - Obama 30 year friend
A few (five we are aware of) of Obama’s closest friends live there Imad Husain (former college roomate 1979-80), Ali Hassan Chandio (Occidental College), Wahid Hamid (Occidental College), Sohale Siddiqi (New York – Columbia College). Obama visited there numerous times. Obama maintains close personal 30+ year connections with Pakistani friends (they attended his wedding 1992, and campaign for him 2007-08). Obama’s mom worked and lived there from 1987 to 1992. Joe Biden has a connection there. Obama personally knows the former President of Pakistan Muhammad Mian Soomro, and indeed stayed at his house during a summer visit there in 1981 and still maintains a 30+ year friendship with him. So lets look at this angle a little deeper.
Most Pakistanis seem to like President Barack Obama. However, for most, President Obama’s “Pakistan Connections” were limited to (a) his rather strong words about Pakistan, including about sending troops into Pakistan, and (b) his choice of Vice President Joseph Biden, who has a long and deep interest in foreign affairs, including Pakistan. Most Pakistanis were/are not very fond of the first of these connections. The second connection they like, especially because Senator Biden was the key architect of a very generous and quite sensible support package for Pakistan.
It turns out, however, that Barack Obama may have slightly deeper and more personal connections to Pakistan. First, there is Barak Obama’s mother living on and off in Pakistan for five years. It is quite clear that Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother, did indeed work and live in Pakistan as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), working on a project in Gujranwalla (here, here, here). A headline in the Daily Waqt that proclaims that “Obama’s Mother Stayed in Pakistan for 5 Years.” Here is the Daily Waqt report:
The mother of American Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, Mrs. Ann Dunham lived in Pakistan for five years. During this time, Barack Obama also visited his mother and stayed for a few month. Mrs. Ann Dunham was hired as a consultant by the Asian Development Bank for Pakistan Agricultural Development Bankâ’s Gujranwalla Agricultural Development Program. This program began in 1987 and ended in 1992.
Mrs. Ann Dunham monitored the funds received for this program from the Asian Development Bank and trained the Mobile Credit Officers of the Agricultural Bank. This program was controlled from the Gujranwalla Regional Office. She stayed for five years in the Hilton International Hotel (now Avari Hotel), Lahore. She travelled daily from Lahore to Gujranwalla. When Barack Obama visited Pakistan, he stayed in the same hotel. After returning from Pakistan, she died from cancer within three years.
Barack Obama has himself visited Pakistan. Indeed, Barack Obama may have visited Pakistan for longer than any U.S. President ever has. As so many college students do, he seemed eager to see the world. He was in Karachi in 1981 as a young student, returning from a visit to his mother in Indonesia. According to a New York Times report:
…Mr. Obama also spoke about having traveled to Pakistan in the early 1980s. Because of that trip, which he did not mention in either of his autobiographical books, “I knew what Sunni and Shia was before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” he said… According to his campaign staff, Mr. Obama visited Pakistan in 1981, on the way back from Indonesia, where his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, were living. He spent “about three weeks” there, Mr. Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton, said, staying in Karachi with the family of a college friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, but also traveling to Hyderabad, in India.
As mentioned above, Obama has a number of Pakistani friends dating back to his college days, and it was those friendships that brought him to Pakistan. Some details, again, from the same New York Times report:
…In Dreams from My Father, he talks of having a Pakistani roommate when he moved to New York, a man he calls Sadik who “had overstayed his tourist visa and now made a living in New York’s high-turnover, illegal immigrant work force, waiting on tables”… During his years at Occidental College, Mr. Obama also befriended Wahid Hamid, a fellow student who was an immigrant from Pakistan and traveled with Mr. Obama there, the Obama campaign said.
Mr. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York, and according to public records, donated the maximum $2,300 to the Obama campaign and is listed as a fund-raiser for it. Mr. Chandoo is now a self-employed financial consultant, living in Armonk, N.Y. He has donated the maximum, $2,300, to Mr. Obama’s primary campaign and an additional $309 for the general election, campaign finance records show.
Wahid Hamid and Chandio each contributed the maximum $2,300 to Obama’s campaign, and records indicate each has joined an Asian-American council that supported his run for president. In addition both also were listed on Obama’s campaign Web site as being among his top fundraisers, each bringing in between $100,000 and $200,000 in contributions from their networks of friends. Both Hamid and Chandoo also attended Obama’s wedding in 1992, according to published reports and other friends.
An Associated Press story on Obama’s college friends has more interesting snippets. Especially his relationship with Sohale Siddiqi, from Karachi, is fascinating – all the more to the Pakistani reader:
The way Sohale Siddiqi remembers it, he and his old roommate were walking his pug Charlie on Broadway when a large, scary bum approached them, stomping on the ground near the dog’s head. This was in the 1980s, a time when New York was a fearful place beset by drugs and crime, when the street smart knew that the best way to handle the city’s derelicts was to avoid them entirely. But Siddiqi was angry and he confronted the man, who approached him menacingly. Until his skinny, elite univerity-educated friend – Barack Obama – intervened. He “stepped right in between. … He planted his face firmly in the face of the guy. ‘Hey, hey, hey.’ And the guy back pedaled and we kept walking,” Siddiqi recalls.
Obama spent the six years between 1979 and 1985 at Occidental College in Los Angeles and then in New York at Columbia University and in the workplace. His memoir, Dreams from My Father, talks about this time, but not in great detail; Siddiqi, for example, is identified only as “Sadik” _ “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Obama’s campaign wouldn’t identify “Sadik,” but The Associated Press located him in Seattle, where he raises money for a community theater.
Not everyone who knew Obama in those years is eager to talk. Some explain that they fear inadvertently hurting Obama. Among his friends were Siddiqi and two other Pakistanis, all of them from Karachi; several of those said the Pakistanis were reluctant to talk for fear of stoking rumors that Obama is a Muslim. “Obama in the eyes of some right wingers is basically Muslim until proved innocent,” says Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York’s Lehman College. “It’s partly the Muslim factor by association and partly the fear of something being twisted.”
President Obama (Barry Sotero) and Pakistani friend Hasan Chandio 1980
Of course, he was only 18 when he arrived at the small liberal arts college nicknamed “Oxy.” His freshman roommates were Imad Husain, a Pakistani, who’s now a Boston banker, and Paul Carpenter, now a Los Angeles lawyer… Obama had an international circle of friends _ “a real eclectic sort of group,” says Vinai Thummalapally, who himself came from Hyderabad, India. As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis.
In 1981 Obama transferred from Occidental, arriving at Columbia Sept. 1982. In between, he traveled to Pakistan – a trip that enhanced his foreign policy qualifications, he maintained in a private speech at a San Francisco fundraiser. Obama spent “about three weeks” in Pakistan, traveling with Hamid and staying in Karachi with Chandio’s family, said Bill Burton, Obama’s press secretary. “He was clearly shocked by the economic disparity he saw in Pakistan. He couldn’t get over the sight of rural peasants bowing to the wealthy landowners they worked for as they passed,” says Margot Mifflin, who makes a brief appearance in Obama’s memoir. When Obama arrived in New York, he already knew Siddiqi – a friend of Chandio’s and Hamid’s from Karachi who had visited Los Angeles.
Siddiqi offered the most expansive account of Obama as a young man. “We were both very lost. We were both alienated, although he might not put it that way. He arrived disheveled and without a place to stay,” said Siddiqi, who at the time worked as a waiter and as a salesman at a boutique… In about 1982, Siddiqi and Obama got an apartment at a sixth-floor walk-up on East 94th Street. Siddiqi managed to get the apartment thanks to subterfuge. “We didn’t have a chance in hell of getting this apartment unless we fabricated the lease application,” Siddiqi said.
Neither Hamid nor Chandoo have accepted media interviews; Hamid is now a top executive at Pepsico in New York, and Chandoo is a self-employed financial consultant in the New York area. Both have each contributed the maximum $2,300 to Obama’s campaign, and records indicate each has joined an Asian-American council that supports his run for president. Both also are listed on Obama’s campaign Web site as being among his top fundraisers, each bringing in between $100,000 and $200,000 in contributions from their networks of friends. Both also attended Obama’s wedding in 1992, according to published reports and other friends.
Thummalapally has stayed in contact with Obama, too, visiting him in New York, attending his wedding in 1992 and joining him in Springfield, Illinois., for the Feb. 10, 2007, announcement of Obama’s run for the White House. President of a CD and DVD manufacturing company in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Thummalapally also is listed as a top fundraiser on the campaign Web site.
http://www.pak-times.com/2008/07/10/obamas-larkana-cnnection/