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New Biography: Young Obama ‘Considered Gayness’
Daily Caller ^

Posted on 04/29/2017 9:33:20 AM PDT by 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.”

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To: Wiser now

In 2008 he couldn’t even come out for same sex marriage.

He said ‘God is in the mix’,


21 posted on 04/29/2017 9:45:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: springwater13

I’ve been calling him a C***suck** for a long time.


22 posted on 04/29/2017 9:45:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cleverly destroying leftist idols with great gusto.)
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To: I want the USA back

A lot o people have.


23 posted on 04/29/2017 9:46:39 AM PDT by sport
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To: springwater13

His ‘girlfriend’ was a composite we were told.


24 posted on 04/29/2017 9:47:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: springwater13
Former President Barack Obama considered being homosexual as a young man

Doesn't that go against the narrative? I thought homosexuality was supposed to be an innate characteristic that people were born with - that's the rationale behind the crusade against attempts to make gays straight.

Anyway, whatever - I don't care anything about Obama's sexuality. I do care that he did a great deal to damage the nation as president, and I worry that he will do more to damage the nation as a former president.
25 posted on 04/29/2017 9:47:54 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: springwater13
Image and video hosting by TinyPic "Gay"? Really?
26 posted on 04/29/2017 9:49:04 AM PDT by tumblindice (Shut it down)
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To: springwater13

I think Reggie would say that Zero did more than “consider” it.


27 posted on 04/29/2017 9:51:10 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: springwater13

Once you consider, you are.


28 posted on 04/29/2017 9:52:15 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: springwater13

So he marries someone with a bigger swinging Richard than his own.


29 posted on 04/29/2017 9:55:55 AM PDT by FearlessFreep (I was one of the #SILENTMAJORITY)
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To: springwater13

What kind of weird human being decides of they like members of the same sex or opposite sex based on “would be less challenging and demanding”?


30 posted on 04/29/2017 9:57:05 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: springwater13

Obama’s Election Trouble-Flashback of Larry Sinclair. Conveniently Biden’s son put this issue to jail.

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/03/10/flashback-obamas-gay-sex-cocaine-romps-with-larry-sinclair/


31 posted on 04/29/2017 9:59:04 AM PDT by keving (We the government)
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To: springwater13

Considered it?


32 posted on 04/29/2017 10:02:59 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: springwater13

Then Barry “married” well — The Mooch is as close to a man that he could get.


33 posted on 04/29/2017 10:03:34 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: arthurus

He is the gayest person every to stay in the closet. Well, maybe Anderson Cooper is. But he is right up there.


34 posted on 04/29/2017 10:04:16 AM PDT by anton
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To: Sacajaweau

>>>I’m sure that’s what his girls want to hear.<<<

IF they are his . . .


35 posted on 04/29/2017 10:05:23 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Wiser now

She? Maybe not.


36 posted on 04/29/2017 10:05:47 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: springwater13

“Considered”? Ha!

I suspect he raced past “considered” decades ago. Reggie, Big Mike, Frank Marshall Davis, etc, and the list goes on.


37 posted on 04/29/2017 10:07:03 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: arthurus
Considered it?

Just the tip.

38 posted on 04/29/2017 10:07:13 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: springwater13

He considered it.. long and hard. Gender fluid everywhere.

There were a number of rumors that he was something of a gay hustler for drugs in his high school days, although I don’t know of their accuracy.


39 posted on 04/29/2017 10:08:19 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: a fool in paradise
His ‘girlfriend’ was a composite we were told.

Maybe the only true parts were the lips and the pout.

40 posted on 04/29/2017 10:09:23 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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