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Posted on 05/23/2019 2:58:56 PM PDT by jazusamo
The success of Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming apparently has Barack Obama feeling a lot of pressure for his own forthcoming memoir. Of course, his memoir has yet to be finished, and its release has been pushed back to 2020 or even 2021. “The writing has been going more slowly than he’d expected,” reports The Atlantic . “And according to several people who have spoken with him, the 44th president is feeling competitive with his wife, whose own book, Becoming, was the biggest release of 2018 and is on track to be the best-selling memoir in history.”
Wow, that's sad.
His unfinished and yet-to-be-titled book will be his third memoir and will cover his political career from his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech through his presidency. The former first couple received a combined $65 million for their post-White House memoirs. His insecurity and competitiveness, while laughable, isn't even the best part of the report.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, like others in this story, these sources note he’ll occasionally point out in conversation that he’s writing this book himself , while Michelle used a ghostwriter . [emphasis mine]
It’s really sad that Barack Obama feels so insecure and competitive about his forthcoming book that he feels the need to point out that Michelle didn’t actually write her bestselling memoir. Did anyone really think she wrote it herself anyway? Why would Barack feel the need to throw her under the bus like that?
Obama’s procrastination has complicated the eventual release of the memoir, according to the report.
Dropping the book this year would have helped Obama largely avoid the current political calendar, and a 2020 release threatens to affect the primaries and the party’s campaign against Donald Trump by re-litigating decisions made a decade ago. Another option is to hold it until 2021, when Obama could be either the voice of a party in despair after another defeat, or poised to grab the spotlight from a freshly elected Democratic president.
It sounds like Game of Thrones fans may get a new novel from George R.R. Martin before Obama finishes his memoir. But, I guess it just takes time to write fantasy. I suspect that Obama’s new memoir will be like Game of Thrones from Joffrey’s perspective. Barack Obama already claims to have had a scandal-free administration , so one can only imagine the fictions he's planning to push as facts in his new memoir.
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Matt Margolis is the author of The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama and the bestselling The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama . His new book, Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama's Legacy , will be published in July 2019. You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis
It's not that Barky can't find a ghost writer; it's that he can't find one who is as good a writer as Bill Ayers was.
Ghost writers in the sky!!!
Wow!!!
He’s filling in all the colors HIMSELF!
“The writing has been going more slowly than he’d expected”
So Bill Ayers was too busy and he’s got to find another ghost writer?
Why, can't he re-hire the same guy who ghost wrote his other two biographies?
LOL! He may have tried and got turned down. :)
Life’s a bitch without a TELEPROMTER isn’t it zer0 ?
Maybe recording the TP would have been helpful.
Would be nice if it ended with “And that’s how I spent my last 40 years in prison”
“on track to be the best-selling memoir in history”
First Wookie buys a lot of books...
Of course she had a ghost writer. But her book was a phenomenon. Not everyone with a ghost writer gets those sales. People are fascinated with her. Celebrity rules.
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He didn’t do anything productive, so of course it will take longer to write.
Or he can just buy some one else’s stories!
What is he looking for? Romance? Comedy? Adventue? .. Erotica?
Right, He can’t find anyone to write for him!!
Wasn’t nightmares of my fathers an autobiography?
“Well, now, what did I do in those eight years? Let me think. I played some hoops. I learned golf. I ate a lot of Hell Burgers. I spoke off some teleprompters. I told Putin to ‘cut it out’ and I drew lines in the sand that were really threatening. I did my best to destroy the economy only to have that irresponsible bastard make me look bad by causing the economy to roar back better than ever. I pushed to get as many immigrants to come in as I could and made sure they would vote Democrat. Oh, and I authorized my successor to be wiretapped and spied upon secretly by our intelligence agencies.
Oh, and I normalized relations with Cuba and Vietnam and made a sweetheart deal with Iran.
Does that about sum it up, Michelle. Michelle? Why does everyone fall asleep when I talk? Joe? Get Joe in here. I know he’s an imbecile but he’ll at least sit through my speeches even though he tries to smell my hair afterwards. Joe! Joe?..”
Right on, FRiend.
[“The writing has been going more slowly than he’d expected,”]
It’s hard to put forth fiction, without a lot of fact-checking.
You know, like 3 years to produce a long-form birth certificate.
Oh no, I went THERE.
Come on Bill Ayers, What's the hold up?
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