How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. (Seventh Bite)
There is so much inconsistency, and fabrication, surrounding the “life story narrative” of Obama it can be overwhelming to try to absorb. So even though we will continue the comprehensive discovery we are also going to add a new daily section to our blog. Each day we will highlight a discrepancy. Just one. Each day. Are they lies? Manipulations? False narratives? You decide. The objective is just to show the disconnected narrative, not to try to figure out how it got into place or why it is there. We will point out one specific question, narrative, or discrepancy every day. Feel free to engage your progressive friends in trying to explain why they exist. The key to discovery is always asking why? “Why” is a powerful word because it eventually reveals the truth. So today we’re digging in deeper with example #7.
President Barack Obama graduated from Columbia in May of 1983.  He stayed in New York for a year before deciding to move to Chicago 1984.  Then in 1988 he decided to apply for enrollment at Harvard Law School.  How he got accepted into the school based on mediocre grades from Occidental and Columbia is still a mystery.  However, accepted he was.   But there has also been a curious issue about how he paid for his Harvard Law School education.  Normally it would not be an issue, but Obama and Michelle have actually used it as a significant part of their “humble origin” narrative.  So lets look at some information that just doesn’t make sense and poses some odd considerations:
How exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education? – The way the Obama campaign answered the question was simply hard work and student loans, even though Obama’s financial disclosures found no trace of any outstanding college loans, going back to 2000. Michelle Obama contradicted this claim by saying that the couple had “only just” paid off their student loans after receiving book royalties paid out in 2005 and 2006.
But questions were raised about Obama’s student loans and Obama’s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising money for Obama’s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991. The allegations first surfaced in late March 2008, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.
In this video interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, who Sutton described as advisor to “one of the world’s richest men,” Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Prince Alwaleed catapulted to fame in the United States after the September 11 attacks, when New York mayor Rudy Guiliani refused his $10 million check to help rebuild Manhattan, because the Saudi prince hinted publicly that America’s pro-Israel policies were to blame for the attacks. Sutton knew Al-Mansour well, since the two men had been business partners and served on several corporate boards together.
As Sutton remembered, Al-Mansour was raising money for Obama’s education and seeking recommendations for him to attend Harvard Law School.

“I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,” Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter. “The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas.”

Apparently, al-Mansour serves on the Board of, among others, Saudi African Bank and was responsible for the Africa investment activities of Kingdom Holdings, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s investment company.
Obama released seven years of tax returns on March 25 of 2009. The returns, dating back to 2000, indicate that the couple paid no interest on their student loans. The interest from such loans would have been deductible on their joint income tax returns.   For 2000 through 2004, taxpayers declared student loan interest as a deduction on line 24 of federal form 1040. After 2004, the deduction can be taken on Line 33.   But the Obama’s never declared a dime of interest in student loans on their return.
The Student Loans – Michelle Obama tells of the collection calls they used to get from the “loan debt people.” Mrs. Obama clearly implies that the family’s hardship was caused merely by living in this hell hole that is America, usually right after she mentions their onerous student loans.
However, the Obama’s have thus far refused to validate these stories of loan collection, despite requests from Chicago papers, or the source of the debt. Obama’s personal loan of $20,000 to his failed Congressional race seems like a very likely culprit for any loan collection calls they might have received. Thus, the Obama’s should provide the financial records that validate their claims about bill collector calls, if they exist, and be honest about the source of the debt. Certainly, the loan itself gives lie to the Obama’s’ stories about their financial hardship due to their being “just regular people;” regular people don’t loan themselves large sums of money for rash and obviously doomed congressional races.
The most trivial, and yet in many ways the most revealing, of the Obama campaign distortions involves their incessant invocation of their school loan burdens. Yet the Chicago Tribune has asked them to produce evidence of their school loans and they never complied. Tellingly, they made too much money since 2000 for their loan interest to be deducted, so they can’t even prove that they finally paid off the loans in 2003, as they constantly claim.
Obama received a full scholarship to Occidental, which he abandoned after two years in favor of Columbia. He left Occidental after his Sophomore year (spring 1981), took a trip to Pakistan, then reappears at Columbia College (fall 1982). Did he get any similar deal for the year at Columbia? What grants and loans did the Obama’s receive while at Harvard?
Again, these may seem like trivial amounts, or trivial questions. However, the Obamas have consistently presented their life story as rags to riches tale in which they triumphed over the odds just like ordinary people. But they’ve offered no proof.
Given Obama’s career reliance on patronage and kingmakers, the reality may be considerably different from their touching campaign anecdotes.