The Dog Ate My Homework - Obama’s Missing Thesis - MSNBC
Obama and the case of the missing ‘thesis’
By Jim Popkin,
NBC News
July 24, 2008
“If Obama says he doesn’t have a copy, I would have to call him a liar,” declared David Bossie, the conservative activist. “Obama has it or knows where it is but no one has pressed him seriously for it,” Bossie said.
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.
…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.
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“A thesis entitled Soviet Nuclear Disarmament, written at the height of The Cold War in 1983, might shed some light upon what Barack Obama thought about our most pressing foreign policy issue for 40-plus years (U.S.-Soviet Relations),” he wrote in an e-mail to NBC News.
Are Left-wing Left-wing journalists showing their true colors?
What does the missing paper say, and could it be politically damaging to Obama?
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Comment by wolf t. on 29 July 2008:
There was no thesis! Obama got an affirmative action pass.