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First Read (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
NBC Senior Investigative Producer Jim Popkin looks at "Obama and the case of the missing 'thesis'" in an item on NBC blog Deep Background . 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...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Deep Background: 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.
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
There were an estimated 200,000 people at Barack Obama's speech in Germany. Greg Sargent writes of the speech,"[T] he discussion of terror was more extensive than you might have expected." Michael Crowley wonders about Obama's phrase " people of the world ." Ben notes that while the German press has gone nuts for Obama, the French press may not be following. Rudy Giuliani's son is suing Duke because...
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The Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The latest report on Obama's missing thesis comes from MSNBC. Written his senior year at Columbia University, Obama's thesis was about Soviet nuclear disarmament. It's only natural to wonder what the budding socialist turned presidential candidate thought of nuclear proliferation in the early 1980s. The Obama campaign, proving every bit as secretive as the Office of the Vice President, has been less...
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Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The latest report on Obama's missing thesis comes from MSNBC. Written his senior year at Columbia University, Obama's thesis was about Soviet nuclear disarmament. It's only natural to wonder what the budding socialist turned presidential candidate thought of nuclear proliferation...
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Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Conservative columnists have been trying to make a big deal about a paper that Barack Obama wrote when he was a student at Columbia University - they seem to think the fact that no one has a copy is a sign that Obama has something to hide. MSNBC's First Read has the whole story. Here's the reality - which I happen to know as a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University: 1. Colleges...
