Posted on 07/19/2012 5:28:21 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
I promised...
A new book due out next month, “Barack Obama: The Story,” by Washington Post reporter David Maraniss finally reveals the identity of two of Obama’s long-lost girlfriends. As if that wasn’t fascinating enough, it also includes excerpts of the love letters he sent to one of them and diary entries from the other.
“The six page excerpt [published in Vanity Fair] focuses on two of Obama’s early girlfriends. One, named Alex McNear, Obama met at Occidental College before he transferred to Columbia,” the Post writes in a teaser. “She came to New York for a summer, the start of a long-distance, letter-based relationship in 1982.” The other, Genevieve Cook, was a diplomat’s daughter he met at a party.
Alex McNear
Maraniss got a hold of many of the letters Obama sent to McNear. And those letters, Maraniss writes in an excerpt for Vanity Fair, reveal “the loneliness of Obama’s New York existence.”
One letter featured Obama’s reaction to McNear writing a paper on T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.”
“His reply wove its way through literature, politics, and personal philosophy,” Maraniss writes. Here‘s what he’s talking about:
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, when he’s less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak. Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.) And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex? [Emphasis added]
“He was trying to find his place in the whirl of humanity, while at the same time refining the literary riffs that filled up page after page of his journals,” Maraniss adds, then delivers another passage from the same letter:
Moments trip gently along over here. Snow caps the bushes in unexpected ways, birds shoot and spin like balls of sound. My feet hum over the dry walks. A storm smoothes the sky, impounding the city lights, returning to us a dull yellow glow. I run every other day at the small indoor track [at Columbia] which slants slightly upward like a plate; I stretch long and slow, twist and shake, the fatigue, the inertia finding home in different parts of the body. I check the time and growl—aargh!—and tumble onto the wheel. And bodies crowd and give off heat, some people are in front and you can hear the patter or plod of the steps behind. You look down to watch your feet, neat unified steps, and you throw back your arms and run after people, and run from them and with them, and sometimes someone will shadow your pace, step for step, and you can hear the person puffing, a different puff than yours, and on a good day they’ll come up alongside and thank you for a good run, for keeping a good pace, and you nod and keep going on your way, but you’re pretty pleased, and your stride gets lighter, the slumber slipping off behind you, into the wake of the past.
These passages would be very good reading if someone needed an emetic.
pompus little trumped up constipated psuedo-intellectual...
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 this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself.
A storm smoothes the sky, impounding the city lights, returning to us a dull yellow glow.
You look down to watch your feet, neat unified steps, and you throw back your arms and run after people, and run from them and with them, and sometimes someone will shadow your pace, step for step, and you can hear the person puffing, a different puff than yours, and on a good day they’ll come up alongside and thank you for a good run, for keeping a good pace, and you nod and keep going on your way, but you’re pretty pleased, and your stride gets lighter, the slumber slipping off behind you, into the wake of the past.
Facing what we perceive as a choice between an emetic expurgation and clueless pedantic bloviation, he opts for the oblique esoteric allusion and the double-helix of banality and cliche.
And this narcissism is borne of a bisexual conflation of archetypes coupling like angry goats, bleating for release from this life-death-whatever angst.
You look down to watch your custom made shoes and throw back your head, looking down your nose at folks who have not a scintilla of realization that you've given them a good run, from Walla Walla to the shores of Waikiki, from the mud of Mombasa to sands of Indonesia, from the windy tonsils to the virtual park bench.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
Thank me,
My Barack
From the President of the American University of Beirut who is quoted as saying that the United States would lose World War Three without a shot being fired - to Frank Marshall Davis, selling drugs from a hot-dog stand...
It's been one heck of ride.
Guide to the Stephen B. L. Penrose, Jr. Papers, 1908-1990.LINK
Genevieve Helen Cook was born on Jun 7, 1958 Philip Caryl Jessup, Jr. was born on Aug 30, 1926 in Utica, NY
Helen Ibbitson Cook Jessup was born on Apr 29, 1933
THERE NOW APPEARS TO BE A LINK BETWEEN THIS GENEVIEVE COOK AND DOMESTIC TERRORIST BILL AYERS – BOTH ATTENDED BANK STREET COLLEGE IN THE EARLY 1980′S – WHICH IS ALSO AROUND THE SAME TIME COOK WAS ALLEGED TO BE DATING BARACK OBAMA.
The great grandfather of Philip Caryl Jessup, Jr. was Henry Harris Jessup (1832–1910) founder of the American University in Beirut, and who's first wife Caroline Bush died in Alexandria, Egytpt.
Does the American University in Beirut and Alexandria, Egypt ring a bell to any of you 0bama researchers?
don’t forget the “x”
“Who are these 12 FReepers?”
As I posted, prefaced by “IIRC” if has been Fred Nerks who has claimed (from my memory) that as many as 12 “researchers,” (perhaps all FReepers, perhaps not) have accumulated conclusive evidence which supports the Mal-Val narrative.
I have already posted to you Fred Nerks’s affirmation that there have been “as many as 10” researchers in the past (only two short of my memory), but there are fewer than that now.
So why am I a liar and troll for merely remembering approximately what Fred Nerks said about the “researchers” as affirmed by Fred Nerks and posted to you?
Also, how can I be a troll for defending a 1000 comment thread that I started from being spammed and hijacked by a narrative that is obviously delusional (the two boys are two years apart and not seven months apart to any sane person) and not just a difference of opinion?
Wouldn't the spamming delusional hijackers on my thread who refuse to start their own thread when repeatedly asked politely to do so be the real trolls?
What does it matter, NOTHING will EVER be done about it. We are stuck with the Marxist b@#tard until he finally leaves office in January.
Between now and Jan. 21st or whatever day it will be, he will do more executive orders and allow all his Marxist cohorts do as much damage as possible, so much in fact it may take years to recover.
Hopefully, Romney is right now making a list of names to replace all Marxists on the Fed payroll.
“What does it matter, NOTHING will EVER be done about it.”
If we take a defeatist attitude it is certain that nothing will be done about it.
IMO, none of us can know what new leads can be uncovered and exploited from the claimed revelation that there is a vital index record for a male baby born to BHO Sr. in Kenya in 1961.
It is certain that either something or nothing will happen, but it is not certain that nothing will happen, IMO.
In 100 days he will have been elected (by the stupid among us) for 4 years.
People keep coming up with evidence. What has been done with that evidence? Nothing.
You have absolutely no idea how upsetting this is. I am sure if absolute proof was discovered and made public, people like John McCain etc. would sweep it under the rug without so much as a second look.
Plus the Marxist MSM would crucify those that discovered the proof and went public with it.
I sometimes wonder if anyone at all remembers all the Arkicides during the Clinton Administration and that includes Brown dying in that plane crash.
I still think and will continue to believe that regardless what the autopsy supposedly revealed, Breitbart was murdered.
Fred Nerks wrote:
I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO TRY AND EXPLAIN WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE IMAGES. I'M GOING TO HAND THEM OVER TO FREEPERS FOR COMMENT.
Well, I have noticed the following:
1- Look at the back of the couch and the upholstery...it has a very light straw-like back and seat on Lolo's side. OTOH, it has a very dark back (almost black) and cloth/material-like seat on SADO's side.
2- The camera flash creates shadows that are inconsistent with the position of the photographer standing directly facing SADO and the baby, the way such a "family" photo is normally taken. Say, the photographer was standing opposite to Lolo. Where is the pronounced shadow from SADO's left leg casted on the couch to be consistent with Lolo's, right arm, head & left ear, 0b0z0's head, left ear and right arm shadows?
0b0z0's head and ear shadow is much more extended than his left arm's shadow, which is farther from the strobe, means longer shadow, supposedly.
3- Lolo's right arm "resting" on the armrest is very peculiar. Lolo's hand is on the end while his forearm isn't "resting" on the armrest otherwise, you would see his forearm flattened.
If the photographer is facing SADO, there shouldn't be any shadows below Lolo's right arm and shirt or to the left of his head; rather, there should be shadows on the wall behind the right shoulder and behind the right side of his head.
4- Note where the actors' eyes are focused. Look at 0b0z0's eyes looking to his left, anywhere from 30-60 degrees away from the camera! Also, they're not in the same degree of sharpness although they are sitting next to each other on "ONE" couch.
Then again, the "composite" couch could be as long as a freight train if they keep composing and adding 0b0z0's hippo pet at the time, more girlfriends, molesters called mentors and the whole Indonesian army.
This couch could be dubbed, "The Composite Ouch!" That's because it really hurts to look at such garbage being pushed down our throats.
Nothing is real, it’s all composite from the mind of the minders!
I don’t know the make of the camera, but it would be fitting to quote an old camera ad:
FROM THE MIND OF MINOLTA!
Funny - last night as I was lying in bed I realized I should have said that excerpt could have been used not just as an emetic but a purgative, if needed...
I suppose Ayers got some nasty jollies writing that smack.
LMAO!!!! YOU.OWE.ME.KEYBOARD!
I listened for quite sometime and there was nothing about Frank Marshall Davis. It was about voter fraud.
Since that was a lower case woww, was that your point that no one is talking about it?
“Although it bears no registrar signature or seal, it was for too quickly written off as a fake -”
The lack of a registrar's signature and seal makes it a clear fake and worthless in any legal proceeding or serious investigation.
What is intriguing is why you would reintroduce a document onto this thread, a document that FReepers have convincingly concluded is a fake, IMO.
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