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[[Image:Obama smoke.png|thumb|200px|Barack Obama in the past]]
Below is a '''list of Barack Obama’s friends and associates'''.
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==B==
* '''Cassandra Butts''' a friend from law school who now works at the [[Center for American Progress]]. Of Obama she said, "People see in him what they want to see."

==C==
* '''Paul Carpenter''' Obama's freshman roommate at Occidental and now a [[Los Angeles]] lawyer. Carpenter recalls Obama being a "a good body-surfer", "an athletic guy", and "super-bright".
* '''Mohammed Hasan Chandoo''' a wealthy Pakistani friend of Obama when he was a freshman. He is a now a self-employed financial consultant living in [[Armonk, New York]]. 

==D==
* '''[[Frank Marshall Davis]]''', [[Communist]] mentor to [[Barack Obama]] and sexual deviant.

==F==
* '''Michael Froman''' a friend from law school and now an executive at [[Citigroup]]. 

==H==
* '''Wahid Hamid''' a wealthy Pakistani friend of Obama when he was a freshmam. Hamid and Obama traveled to Karachi, Pakistan after graduation from Occidental and stayed with the family of '''Mohammed Hasan Chandoo'''. Hamid is now a vice president at [[Pepsico]] in New York City.
* '''Imad Husain''' a Pakistani and  Obama's freshman roommate at Occidental. Husain is now a [[Boston]] banker.

==M==
* '''Robert McCrary''' a former classmate at [[Occidental College]]. McCrary is now a general manager of a contract sewing company. He saw [[Obama]] as "cocky, sometimes arrogant...and not open to others."
* '''Margot Mifflin''', a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at [[New York]]'s [[Lehman College]]. 
* '''Jon K. Mitchell''' a friend from Occidental who now plays bass for the country-swing band ''Asleep at the Wheel''.

==R==
* '''Andrew Roth''' knew Obama at Occidental College and in New York City. Roth said that back then "The thought...never crossed my mind that he would be our first black president." 

==S==
* '''[[Sohale Siddiqi]]''' is identified as "Sadik" in [[Obama]]'s memoir, ''Dreams From My Father'', and is described as "a short, well-built [[Pakistani]]" who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Siddiqi was from [[Karachi, Pakistan]], and Obama's roommate when he attended [[Columbia University]]. Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia and became an illegal alien having over stay his tourist visa. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/politics/10obama.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1214207021-uosaZc36obGAa6AKbWELMg] Obama knew Saddiqi when he visited '''Chandoo''' and '''Hamid''' at Occidental. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now lives in [[Seattle]] working for a community theater.

==T==
* '''Vinai Thummalapally''' an Obama college roommate in the summer of 1980. Thummalapally is from [[Hyderabad, India]]. Obama visited Hyderabad, India and Karachi, Pakistan during a three week period with '''Wahid Hamid''' after his graduation from Occidental. [http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/06/whoops-obama-forgot-to-mention-his.html] He is president of a CD and DVD manufacturing company in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]].
* '''Phil Boerner''' A transfer student from Occidental College and roommate of Obama’s when they were living together in New York City. 
[http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan_feb09/alumni_corner]
[http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/recollections-of-obamas-ex-roommate/?hp&apage=2#comments] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/18/national/a110103S27.DTL&hw=celebrity&sn=003&sc=886]
* '''Laurence Tribe''' a professor at Harvard who said Obama was one of his two best students. "He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of information." [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13390609/campaign_08_the_radical_roots_of_barack_obama/3]

==See also==
* [[Barack Obama’s Communist connections]]
* [[List of Barack Obama’s gay lovers]]

==External links==
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama]
* [http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F1C46FDE-3048-5C12-00ED1702A906DC5F Old friends recall Obama's college years]
* [http://sooshisoo.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/obamas-radical-friends-communists-marxists-corrupt-politicians-racist-mentors/ Obama’s Radical Friends: Communists, Marxists, Corrupt Politicians, Racist Mentors and More]

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