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Meet the First Obama Girlfriend
breitbart ^ | 5/2/12 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 05/02/2012 12:18:02 PM PDT by Nachum

It only took nearly six years for the media to begin vetting President Obama’s past.

Today, Vanity Fair released an excerpt from a new biography of Barack Obama by David Maraniss. The excerpt discusses Barack Obama's first love affair, with a white Australian woman named Genevieve Cook. It's a telling examination of who Obama was as a young man -- and it shows a self-absorbed "internationalist" with delusions of grandeur.

Photo credit Vanity Fair.

The book itself sounds like an ode to Obama. Maraniss writes, “At age 20, Obama was a man of the world … He could not be of one place, rooted and provincial.” No, says Maraniss, this was a broadminded young man who “knew the ways of different cultures better than he knew himself.”

When he first moved to New York, he was in the midst of an affair with Alexandra McNear, a girl from Occidental. They exchanged a series of purple letters with one another – turgid missives from overfevered young minds. Here, for example, is tendentious Obama explaining poetry to his young girlfriend:

I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time. Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets,

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To: Nachum
I wonder how much of this is contrived. How can it be verified? Will these women come forward to be interviewed? It is not coincidental that this comes out before the election. Maraniss is helping to create a more fleshed out Obama persona, manufactured for the campaign. So where are his college transcripts? Who paid his way thru college? Why were seemingly most of his friends foreign students?

Maraniss is the new Bill Ayers adding more fiction to the man called Obama.

81 posted on 05/02/2012 1:57:25 PM PDT by kabar
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To: netmilsmom

Half his face is dark, meaning that the source is from slightly behind his right ear, yet the shadow on her face obscures her features to a much lesser degree on the same side, although they should have the same shadow.

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Disagree. Look at it again. The reason the shadow is different is because her head is at a different angle. His face is directly toward the camera, so the shadow line runs down the center of his face. Her face is angled both down and toward him, resulting in a different-looking shadow . . . but if you compare the lines of the actual shadow, not where it falls on their faces, it seems to be the same.

Not saying this couldn’t be a Photoshop. I don’t know enough to say for certain. But take a look again and you’ll see that the shadows on their faces are *not* actually different.


82 posted on 05/02/2012 1:59:22 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert ( "Be Breitbart, Baby!")
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To: JoeDetweiler

It reads like something Ignatius Reilly would write to Myrna.....

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OMG, yes!!! Ding ding ding! On the nose!


83 posted on 05/02/2012 2:01:29 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert ( "Be Breitbart, Baby!")
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To: dfwgator

This girl’s diary on

Saturday, February 25 The sexual warmth is definitely there—but the rest of it has sharp edges and I’m finding it all unsettling and finding myself wanting to withdraw from it all. I have to admit that I am feeling anger at him for some reason, multi-stranded reasons.

His warmth can be deceptive. Tho he speaks sweet words and can be open and trusting, there is also that coolness—and I begin to have an inkling of some things about him that could get to me.

And this is 25 years ago!


84 posted on 05/02/2012 2:03:52 PM PDT by txhurl (Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. In your untimely passing, you have exposed these people one last time.)
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To: wayoverontheright

Good catch. I wonder why Harvard-educated Shapiro did not pick up on that.


85 posted on 05/02/2012 2:04:21 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Nachum
All of Obama’s friends were Pakistani

I've read that Obama's mother spent 5 years in Pakistan working for the Ford Foundation. May be true...but I haven't yet found convincing proof.

86 posted on 05/02/2012 2:05:47 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Uncle Miltie

She looks like Sandra Fluke


87 posted on 05/02/2012 2:13:10 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: what's up

In the 80s she worked with tax Cheat Geithner’s father in Indonesia with the FORD Foundation’s microfinance program.


88 posted on 05/02/2012 2:13:16 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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To: Nachum
he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality

What does that mean?

89 posted on 05/02/2012 2:14:06 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My 6 pack abs are now a full keg......)
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To: Larry - Moe and Curly

I’m not a photo shop expert. . .but it does look like his chin is in his chest.


90 posted on 05/02/2012 2:14:51 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: AnAmericanMother
"Cast a cold eye on life, on death... Horseman, pass by!"


91 posted on 05/02/2012 2:15:58 PM PDT by kenavi (1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
What does that mean?

It is the alpha and the omega, it is the potato and the knish, it is the woop and and the hoop. It just is... uh... so....... gay.

92 posted on 05/02/2012 2:21:40 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

I don’t see that.
Why can you see her right ear?

No matter where you move the light source, he should not be in that much shadow.


93 posted on 05/02/2012 2:23:27 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Breitbart)
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To: mknj

Exactly what I thought. I’ll have to look up pics of him and see which arm he wears a watch on


94 posted on 05/02/2012 2:41:43 PM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: kabumpo

oops


95 posted on 05/02/2012 2:49:14 PM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: PLD
Who else here thinks it is strange this person is found before the election..She looks like she could be a Dyke friend.

Most likely just a friend or a dyke friend. NO horny young male would even consider writing likw that with the expectation of getting laid! It is just too lame!

If, in fact he wrote this crap, which I doubt, it was definitely not to a girlfriend. Maybe some fool he was trying to impress, but not a girlfriend!

96 posted on 05/02/2012 2:58:00 PM PDT by suijuris
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To: Nachum
Here is the entire article from Vanity Fair
97 posted on 05/02/2012 3:02:18 PM PDT by kabar
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To: little jeremiah; LucyT
he's wearing the same jacket he wore during his first trip to Kenya, which they want us to believe was in 1987:

Once again, it's the mistakes they make that are most revealing. He was also shown wearing the same jacket in the Central Park fake:


98 posted on 05/02/2012 3:04:22 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: ColdOne

Some in the UN are already and have been calling for Obama to be President there......this is out now for the benifit of the International Love Feast they’re pushing for Obama.
Good grief I wish he and his wife would just go back to Chicago and play house there.....but his apserations are for an International position....you can bet on it.


99 posted on 05/02/2012 3:07:09 PM PDT by caww
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To: Larry - Moe and Curly

They need to do it again and include a neck this time.


100 posted on 05/02/2012 3:07:57 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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