Posted on 10/18/2017 10:27:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A young Barack Obama questioned his place in the world and his racial identity, agonized over whether he’d make enough money as a community organizer, and lamented his incompatibility with his ex-girlfriend in 30 pages of letters he wrote to her that are now being archived by Emory University in Atlanta.
The nine full letters, sent by Obama to his college girlfriend, Alexandra McNear, are being made public to researchers through Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. The university has had the letters since 2014 but could only make them public now, officials said.
Written in the 1980s, the letters give a peek into Obama’s psyche as he sought out the path that would eventually land him in the White House as the United States’ first black president, Emory University officials said Wednesday. […]
The letters span 1982 to 1984. During that time, Obama was at Columbia University in New York City, in Indonesia, and finally working at Business International Corporation, “with everyone slapping my back,” in a job for which he had no passion. Obama wrote for the newsletter Business International Money Report.
“Salaries in the community organizations are too low to survive on right now, so I hope to work in some more conventional capacity for a year, allowing me to store up enough nuts to pursue those interests next,” Obama wrote in 1983. …
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Cozy
Who’s that guy?
I thought the ex-GF was a “composite”, not real. Well, don’t many of us correspond with our imaginary friends in our diaries?
The one in “Dreams” is the “composite”. Not that the “composite” ever got a name beyond “New York girlfriend”.
Does that mean that this letter will give a real name to Ms. Composite, or will it be redacted? Just asking as one of the many who wonders how much of Obama’s past I’d real, vs. how much is confabulated.
I can’t remember his name but I seem to remember he is of mid-east extraction as well as the other guy.
LOL
Is that Freddy Mercury?
No, but he is of the same persuasion.
Trying to find his way to the bath-house.
All he had to do was lead with his behind.
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