II: Columbia University and Recruitment by Zbigniew Brzezinski 53Zbigniew Brzezinski during these years was working as the boss of the Institute for Communist
Affairs at Columbia — a notorious anti-Soviet think tank and propaganda center. What little we
know about Obama includes that he was a politics major with a specialty in international relations
who wrote his senior thesis on the topic of Soviet nuclear disarmament. This, needless to say, is a
topic which has Zbigniew Brzezinski written all over it. If Senator Obama wishes to refute the
contention that he has been a member of the Brzezinski Trilateral stable of politicians and other
operatives since approximately 1981-1983, he is invited to offer documentation to that end. For his
part, Zbigniew Brzezinski understood quite soon in his career that his Dr. Strangelove television
persona was a decided political liability in this country. It has been forgotten today, but at the time
he left office at the end of the Carter administration, Brzezinski was by all odds the most hated
member of a very unpopular administration. In fact, it would seem that Brzezinski ranks down to
this day as the most hated government official serving in Democratic administrations since the
departure from the White House of Lyndon B. Johnson in January 1969. Any doubts about this
profound unpopularity had been clarified when Brzezinski was loudly booed by the delegates to the
1980 Democratic National Convention. Since those times, Brzezinski has been extraordinarily gun
shy when it comes to publicity or to stating in public what he actually thinks and intends.
Brzezinski, in other words, has learned that he must conceal his own political operations, lest they
be disrupted by hostile scrutiny. Obama has represented one of these long-term, concealed
Brzezinski operations.
Obama’s presence at Columbia remains shrouded in mystery. According to published reports,
many of his classmates don’t remember Obama. According to one account, he does not appear in
the yearbook of his graduating class. In response to inquiries made by journalists during 2007,
Columbia University was unwilling or unable to find a picture of him during his years at that
university. Obama has attempted to conceal his years at Columbia with the usual cloak of
complaints about the alleged racism of the place: ‘Mr Obama was later admitted to read politics and
international relations at New York’s prestigious Columbia University where, his book claims, “no
matter how many times the administration tried to paint them over, the walls remained scratched
with blunt correspondence (about) n****rs.” But one of his classmates, Joe Zwicker, 45, now a
lawyer in Boston, said yesterday: “That surprises me. Columbia was a pretty tolerant place. There
were African-American students in my classes and I never saw any evidence of racism at all.”’
(London Daily Mail, January 27, 2007) Nevertheless, Obama does reveal in veiled terms that
coming to Columbia was a great watershed in his life: ‘“There was a fundamental rupture in my life
between Occidental and Columbia, where I just became more serious,” Obama said.’ (Purdum,
Vanity Fair, March 2008) It was Brzezinski’s intervention that made the difference, we believe.
And: is Obama suggesting that this was when he turned away from illegal drugs? He never says so
specifically, leaving a plethora of questions.
In a September 5, 2008 interview with Matt Welch, the Libertarian Party candidate for vice
president Wayne Allyn Root, a member of Obama’s Columbia class of 1983, reports that he never
met or heard of anybody called Obama, and has not been able to find anyone who can among his
fellow alumni. Root majored in the same department where Obama claims to have majored. Here is
an excerpt from this revealing exchange:
“Wayne Allyn Root: I think the most dangerous thing you should know about Barack Obama is
I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don’t have a
classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever!
Matt Welch: So tell us what we should know about Barack