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Obama and the case of the missing 'thesis'

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Conservative provocateurs have been hunting for it. Investigative journalists have been on the prowl, too. Even a former professor has been searching through old boxes for his copy of it. But today Barack Obama made it official: He doesn’t have and can’t release any copies of the thesis-length paper he wrote 25 years ago while a senior at Columbia University.

“We do not have a copy of the course paper you requested and neither does Columbia University,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told NBC News.

The hunt begins
The hunt for Obama’s senior “thesis” began with a throwaway line in a newspaper article last October. The New York Times story, on Obama’s early New York years, mentioned in passing that the presidential contender had majored in political science at Columbia and had spent his time “writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament.”

Journalists began hounding Columbia University for copies of the musty document. Conservative bloggers began wondering if the young Obama had written a no-nukes screed that he might come to regret. And David Bossie, the former congressional investigator and “right-wing hit man,” as one newspaper described him, took out classified newspaper ads in Columbia University’s newspaper and the Chicago Tribune in March searching for the term paper.
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7 responses // Obama and the case of the missing 'thesis'

  • 25 years ago? I liked tommy H. clothes
    schmedly
  • What does it say? what does it say?
    dfmoreno
  • Poor Obama i hope they dont find the lost library card when he checked out that book when he was nine and didnt return it
    TexasPatriot67
  • This is so cloak and dagger. Wonder where it will all end up?
    jubal
  • So he doesn't have a thesis paper that he wrote 25 years ago... who gives a good goddamn?

    I haven't been out of college for a year and I've lost and misplaced papers that I've written that I'll never find again. Does that mean that if I ever run for president that I'll be fucked because I can't find my previous works that never were published?

    Besides, this is something that he wrote in college. Is it impossible that he might have changed the point of views he expressed in the paper even if they were politically questionable?
    Varex_Sythe
  • Really? How could it possibly be relevant? I would hate to think I would be judged by some of the things I thought when I was in college. I can't imagine how hilarious it would be to read GWB's college thesis.
    GavinTheMother
  • This story is obviously the type of dirt that both sides like to dig up on each other. Since I don't like either candidate I think the crap that comes up is hilarious.
    shadowtrekker

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