The New Republic’s Gabriel Sherman predicts that the media’s love affair with Barack Obama may be coming to an end. Evidently some in the media actually want to get to the truth of who Obama really is, much to the chagrine of Obama campaign operatives:

Reporters who have covered Obama’s biography or his problems with certain voter blocs have been challenged the most aggressively. “They’re terrified of people poking around Obama’s life,” one reporter says. “The whole Obama narrative is built around this narrative that Obama and David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it’s not entirely true. So they have to be protective of the crown jewels.” Another reporter notes that, during the last year, Obama’s old friends and Harvard classmates were requested not to talk to the press without permission.

For more than a year now the media have been attempting to locate a copy of Barack Obama’s senior thesis submitted at Columbia University. Obama says he lost his copy. His professor has been searching through old boxes trying to find his copy. The obvious question becomes what is in the thesis and is the Obama campaign intentionally protecting it from scrutiny?

NBC’s Senior Investigative Producer Jim Popkin spoke with Obama’s former professor Michael Baron:

“My recollection is that the paper was an analysis of the evolution of the arms reduction negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States,” Baron said in an e-mail. “At that time, a hot topic in foreign policy circles was finding a way in which each country could safely reduce the large arsenal of nuclear weapons pointed at the other … For U.S. policy makers in both political parties, the aim was not disarmament, but achieving deep reductions in the Soviet nuclear arsenal and keeping a substantial and permanent American advantage. As I remember it, the paper was about those negotiations, their tactics and chances for success. Barack got an A.”

Is it possible, however, that Barack Obama’s thesis involved disarming the United States? This seems to be exactly what he is calling for in the video below:

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