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 ...
It’s the SAME man, baby.
Look at the chin. And the apple cheeks.
Holy cow! That’s one of the more effeminate photos of O that I’ve seen. And there are plenty.
He’s referring to the 20th century American poet T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot.
If Obomba wrote that crap, then I’m the King of England.
Seriesly Øbama? bow wow
F U
Who’s the guy with the ‘this faggotry must end AT ONCE!’ pic?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
FTW
Also, if you look, his watch is on his left hand. Since he is a lefty, shouldn’t it be on his right hand?
Yeah; but I really didn’t want to SEE them again. Thanks anyway.
white chicks loved Barry for his big.... brain?
At least now we may know how he wooed and won the tender heart of Moochelle Lavaughn
Amazingly today on the radio, I heard for the first time EVER, how Bush and Kerry’s college records were discussed but barry’s are sealed. And someone’s asking for his college records.
I couldn’t believe my ears.
That’s a MAN, baby!
"It's twue....It's twue!"
I gotta say women with those chins really freak me out.
Good Catch
I hereby nominate you for editor of the Harvard Law Review
Was there anything that was true from his 2 books? I think they were written or coauthored by Bill Ayers and/or Marshall Davis.
Was there anything that was true from his 2 books? I think they were written or coauthored by Bill Ayers and/or Marshall Davis.
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