Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Posted on 05/03/2017 1:02:57 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
It is in the personal realm that Garrow’s account is particularly revealing. He shares for the first time the story of a woman Obama lived with and loved in Chicago, in the years before he met Michelle, and whom he asked to marry him. Sheila Miyoshi Jager, now a professor at Oberlin College, is a recurring presence in “Rising Star,” and her pained, drawn-out relationship with Obama informs both his will to rise in politics and the trade-offs he deems necessary... Garrow, who received a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Martin Luther King Jr., concludes this massive new work with a damning verdict on Obama’s determination: “While the crucible of self-creation had produced an ironclad will, the vessel was hollow at its core.”
Jager, who in “Dreams From My Father” was virtually written out, compressed into a single character along with two prior Obama girlfriends, may have evoked something of Obama’s distant mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. Like Dunham, Jager studied anthropology, and while Dunham focused on Indonesia, Jager developed a deep expertise in the Korean Peninsula. Jager was of Dutch and Japanese ancestry...
In Garrow’s telling, Obama made emotional judgments on political grounds. A close mutual friend of the couple recalls Obama explaining that “the lines are very clearly drawn. If I am going out with a white woman, I have no standing here.” And friends remember an awkward gathering at a summer house, where Obama and Jager engaged in a loud, messy fight on the subject for an entire afternoon. (“That’s wrong! That’s wrong! That’s not a reason,” they heard Sheila yell from their guest room, their arguments punctuated by bouts of makeup sex.) Obama cared for her, Garrow writes, “yet he felt trapped between the woman he loved and the destiny he knew was his.”
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Was that other woman actually a guy?
Loved a guy dressed as a woman. Then realized it would impede his political career. :-)
The real story is Rue Paul said “no”.
Snicker! :-)
Ping to new 1,500 page bio of Barry with fascinating new details on Dutch-Japanese anthropologist girlfriend he was two-timing Michelle with while at Harvard.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3549688/posts
Other FR thread put up a Fox story that references this WaPo article
That was my reaction, too.
Sources in Chicago say he was into a different scene.
I meant to mention that the other thread has several pics of Ms. Jager. I’m not so good in the pics dept.
I read once (don’t know where) Mooch and his handlers told him to drop the Islam thing if he figured on going anywhere in American politics. Hello, Jeremiah Wright!
These obama bios are really is Bible, because there is no proof that any of what he writes is true and often not verifiable, like his birthday; therefore, you have to accept it all by faith.
+8 Hot, <4 Crazy...
I wonder how many guys obama asked to marry him before he asked Michael.
Where are the pics?
I would like to see her
Then he met Michael and realized he could have his cake and eat it too.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Same sex marriage was illegal then?
Interesting....Wright is an apostate...he’s a former Muslim...
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