9 Tall Tales From Barack Obama's Memoir (Illustrated and Annotated)

Buzzfeed ^ | June 19, 2012 | Andrew Kaczynski

[Zakeet]

1. Hussein Onyango, Barack's grandfather, wasn't really imprisoned and tortured by the British.

   

2. The father of his Indonesian stepfather, Soewarno Martodihardjo, wasn't killed by Dutch soldiers in the fight for independence.

   

3. Regina, a friend at Occidental who Obama writes about as a symbol of the authentic African-American experience turns out to be based on Carolina Boss, who is white. Regina was the name of her Swiss grandmother.

   

4. Obama projected a racial incident onto his New York girlfriend that he later told Maraniss had happened in Chicago.

   

5. Obama wrote that he broke up with his New York girlfriend in part because she was white. But his next girlfriend, an anthropologist in Chicago, was also white.

   

6. Obama cuts out two white college roommates entirely.

   

7. Obama wrote about his high school friends as an alienated, ne'er-do-well "club of disaffection." In fact, most members of the "Choom Gang" were "decent students and athletes" who went on to successful careers.

   

8. Obama's mother left his father, not the other way around.

   

9. In his memoir, Obama mentions he missed out on playing time in high school basketball because he coach preferred players who "play like white boys do." In fact, Obama had to work hard just to make the team, and race had nothing to do with it.

   

[Zakeet]

Before you Right Wing Nuts complain too much ... you should make an allowance for how hard it is to recall things without access to documents like birth certificates, college transcripts and family records.

[Future Snake Eater]

He seems to really have a problem with white people. Very comforting...

[SMARTY]

“O’s” in the wrong business... he ought to be in Hollywood writing scripts for sit com’s!

[rovenstinez]

Now the gran finale, to get his face etched on Mt. Rushmore.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Could it be that he just wasn't as good?

Is he using race as an excuse for not being one of the better players?

"Decades later, a story emerged that his nickname was Barry O’Bomber, playing off his last name and a propensity to fire away from long range, but few team members recalled that nickname and said the real gunner was Darin Maurer, who was better than Obama but barely got more playing time. Maurer never started at Punahou but went on to play Division I basketball at Stanford as a walk-on."

From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/president-obamas-basketball-love-affair-has-roots-in-hawaii-high-school-team/2012/06/09/gJQApU2mQV_story_1.html

I see a pattern here starting in high school familiar with many children. Is he making excuses for lackluster performance by using race as the excuse?

Could he be perhaps projecting his own racial bias upon others in is efforts to deflect away from the real problem that he was just not as good at some things as others?

Teenagers do this often but most people grow out of it and have to face their own shortcomings. Most people grow out of that and realize that not everybody is the best at everything.

[ilgipper]

He seems to consistently blame whitey when things don’t go the way he thinks they should.

[PzLdr]

Based on his accomplishments, I think the opposite end would be more appropriate.

[vanilla swirl]

And what do we expect from the father of lies?

[Kirkwood]

Cocaine can do that.

[hal ogen]

This nobama person, whomever he is, is such an insipid, feckless putz who uncontrollably lies so as to create an image that he is not...what a loser.

[NTegraT]

And how long will it be before there are renaming of 500 streets to President Barack Hussein Obama Freeway/Blvd./Avenue/Expressway/etc.? Within 2 years? Probably.

[I am Richard Brandon]

How come, after years of complaining that “there is no record of the young Obama” we are inundated with photos? Who withheld and who is releasing them?