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vader29
10-10-2012, 11:20 AM
The former Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate who has claimed Barack Obama was unknown to him and his fellow Columbia University classmates charges the president is using the Internal Revenue Service to punish and silence him.

Wayne Allyn Root – a pre-law and political science major in the class of 1983, like the president – told WND that despite a spotless tax record, he became the target of an audit in January 2011 when he received an “unsettling” call from an IRS agent who called himself a fan of his and considered it “an honor” to audit him.

Root won a complete victory three months ago in tax court, which found no taxes owed in his 2007 and 2008 filings. But then, he said, something shocking happened – something his tax attorney has never heard of in his entire career. Root was hit with a new audit just five days later, for 2009 and 2010.

“That order had to come from the highest levels of government,” he asserted.

“Obama is using the power of the IRS and other government agencies to punish his political opposition and intimidate and silence his critics,” Root charged.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/columbia-classmate-obama-using-irs-to-punish-me/

suitanim
10-10-2012, 11:26 AM
I've seen this floating around. To me, this part of the story is much more potentially nefarious. I went to a school with 30,000 kids in it, and I knew most of the people in my major, at least by last name. I believe Columbia only has about 5,000 students, and of the 400 interviewed, not ONE of them knew or remembered Obama?

Root noted he drew wide attention as the Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate in 2008 when he contended that although he and Obama were both pre-law and political science majors in Columbia’s class of 1983, he never even heard of Obama during his time at the university. None of the classmates with whom he’s spoken, knew of him either, he claimed. A 2008 Wall Street Journal article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577537233908744496.html?m od=rss_Politics_And_Policy) cited a Fox News survey of 400 people who were Columbia students from 1981 to 1983 and found no one who remembered him.

GBMelBlount
10-10-2012, 09:58 PM
Suitanim

I believe Columbia only has about 5,000 students, and of the 400 interviewed, not ONE of them knew or remembered Obama?

My nephew goes to Columbia (and my great grandfather co-founded their school of dentistry) and I believe the undergrad enrollment is a little under 5,000 now. However with the medical, graduate and professional schools it is many times that.

So in totality it is big.

Regardless, it is unbelievable that of 400 interviewed students not a single one remembered him...