"Damn you, Walt Whitman! I! Hate! You! Walt! Freaking! Whitman!"
Posted on 05/02/2012 12:18:02 PM PDT by Nachum
It only took nearly six years for the media to begin vetting President Obama’s past.
Today, Vanity Fair released an excerpt from a new biography of Barack Obama by David Maraniss. The excerpt discusses Barack Obama's first love affair, with a white Australian woman named Genevieve Cook. It's a telling examination of who Obama was as a young man -- and it shows a self-absorbed "internationalist" with delusions of grandeur.
Photo credit Vanity Fair.
The book itself sounds like an ode to Obama. Maraniss writes, “At age 20, Obama was a man of the world … He could not be of one place, rooted and provincial.” No, says Maraniss, this was a broadminded young man who “knew the ways of different cultures better than he knew himself.”
When he first moved to New York, he was in the midst of an affair with Alexandra McNear, a girl from Occidental. They exchanged a series of purple letters with one another – turgid missives from overfevered young minds. Here, for example, is tendentious Obama explaining poetry to his young girlfriend:
I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time. Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets,
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Wonder how Michelle’s going to react to bringing up his old flames....seems to me she has quite the jealous streak for pretty much everything in life.
When you see the "long-range" view, that's even more clumsily obvious:
There are other "early Obama" photos running around that also appear to have been doctored -- big head, incredibly long arm, etc.
WHAT is the deal here?
Please note netmilsmom’s comment.
They must be expecting a homo-eruption.
Check the post at #103. It’s much more obvious in the “long range” version. What a clumsy fake!
Are you serious? If a man had tried to ply me with that garbage, I would have fallen over laughing.
When kids, we used to make paper dolls like that....cutting out paper heads and slipping them into tabs pasted on the backs of various models' bodies wearing Sears catalogue clothes.
Sometimes our heads were too big or too small for the bodies, LOL...like this phony photo of the Creep-in-Chief.
Leni
In the long-range view there are four legs but two leg shadows. Also, her right flank has an odd light streak from her hip to her shoe. Early 80s photoshopfail?
Check the “long range” photo at post #103. The Photoshop is insanely obvious.
The difference in color tone (white?) of the left hand and the color tone of the left side of his face is telling something.
Yes,, it’s all very convenient. He was probably “shopping buddies” with the girl in the picture, if you know what I mean.
The hilarious thing is his head isn’t just “big,” it’s Hulk-sized!
That dude’s head is gigantic . . . Like a pumpkin.
You made my day. Ah, that Minkoff minx.
I don’t think so. Her head is turned to the side toward the sun, so more of the right side of her face is illuminated than B.O.’s who’s looking straight ahead. Also, if you look at her hand holding the cup, it’s about at the same angle as B.O.’s head, and it has just as much shading. Also the color of B.O.’s hand is no different than the color of his face that’s illuminated in the photo. Definitely a stretch to call this a Photoshop.
My Lord! That head is on the wrong body.....that’s HUGE
I'll bet Looter Man would look good in that jacket.
The head is GIGANTIC, not just big. Look at #103 and imagine how that would look in real life.
Cheers!
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