New Biography: Young Obama ‘Considered Gayness’

Daily Caller ^

[springwater13]

Former President Barack Obama considered being homosexual as a young man, according to a forthcoming biography of the president.

The biography by David Garrow, “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,” is set to come out on May 9. Garrow wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., and is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post.

In a chapter about the former president’s two years at Occidental College, Garrow reveals a close relationship Obama had with an openly gay assistant professor named Lawrence Goldyn.

“Goldyn made a huge impact on Barry Obama,” Garrow wrote in the book. “Almost a quarter century later, asked about his understanding of gay issues, Obama enthusiastically said, ‘my favorite professor my first year in college was one of the first openly gay people that I knew…He was a terrific guy” with whom Obama developed a ‘friendship beyond the classroom.'”

The biographer added, “Goldyn years later would remember that Obama ‘was not fearful of being associated with me’ in terms of ‘talking socially’ and ‘learning from me’ after as well as in class.”

“Three years later, Obama wrote somewhat elusively to his first intimate girlfriend that he had thought about and considered gayness, but ultimately had decided that a same-sex relationship would be less challenging and demanding than developing one with the opposite sex,” Garrow wrote. “But there is no doubting that Goldyn gave eighteen-year-old Barry a vastly more positive and uplifting image of gay identity and self-confidence than he had known in Honolulu.”

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

So....the word “considered” has a new meaning that I wasn’t aware of?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

“Considered”? That’s like saying that Charlie Sheen considered using drugs.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Goldyn made a huge impact on Barry Obama

Oh, I'm sure he did. I'm sure he expanded young Barry's horizons among other things.

So let me guess, there's a tell-all book coming and Buttcrack Hussein is trying to head-off/soften the blow of a coming scandal. Don't worry, Barry, your daughters know. I'm sure mommy mentioned it a few hundred times around the house when angry about something. I'm sure the youngest daughter had to have it explained to her when mom referred to "the little fruit" and the daughter said, "We've got strawberries? Great, I want some!!"

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yep. If there were 300 lbs worth of barbells on that side of the couch, a straight guy would move them.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

It gets worse, read the whole paragraph again: “Three years later, Obama wrote somewhat elusively to his first intimate girlfriend that he had thought about and considered gayness, but ultimately had decided that a same-sex relationship would be less challenging and demanding than developing one with the opposite sex.”

He ultimately decided that a same-sex relationship relationship would be LESS challenging and demanding... Obozo was making the case FOR a same-sex relationship, not against! The reporter didn't catch that and I'm sure Louie and Rocco are on their way to his house now to make sure there's no further misunderstandings.

[mojito]

It sounds like this biography sort of pussyfoots around the fact, without actually coming out and saying it, that Barry had at least one documented homosexual affair.

Other parts of the book indicate that Michelle was a beard.