Barack Obama Constitutional College Thesis, Aristocracy Reborn is making news today. This paper chronicled the long struggle of the working class against, as Obama put it, “plutocratic thugs with one hand on the money and the other on the government.”
As a political science major, Barack Obama was seen as a top student, according to his classmates. Professors even asked the young student to lecture several times. Obama was required to write a ’senior seminar’ paper in order to graduate from Columbia. The subject of this paper, which totaled 44 pages, was American government. Barack Obama’s paper was entitled Aristocracy Reborn which is now the center of many American’s discussions.
In the paper, in which only the first ten pages were given to the general media, Obama decries the plight of the poor:
“I see poverty in every place I walk. In Los Angeles and New York, the poor reach to me with bleary eyes and all I can do is sigh.”
In part, the future President blames this on the current economic system:
“There are many who will defend the ‘free market.’ But who will defend the single mother of four working three jobs. When a system is allowed to be free at the expense of its citizens, then it is tyranny.”
However, the President also singled out the American Constitution: “… the Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.”
It is yet unknown if more of this thesis will be released. It was also noted that the President received an A- for the paper, which later led to his graduation.
