Obama: 'New York girlfriend' was composite

Politico ^ | 5/2/2012 | By DYLAN BYERS

[tobyhill]

Editors’ Note: The original version of this post inaccurately stated that Barack Obama had not revealed creating composite characters in his book, “Dreams from My Father.” An update to the post was added that Obama had acknowledged using composite characters in a reissue of the book.

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One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called 'New York girlfriend.' Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.

But Obama has now told biographer David Maraniss that the 'New York girlfriend' was actually a composite character, based off of multiple girlfriends he had both in New York City and in Chicago.

"During an interview in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that, while Genevieve was his New York girlfriend, the description in his memoir was a “compression” of girlfriends, including one who followed Genevieve [Cook] when he lived in Chicago," Maraniss writes in his new biography, an excerpt of which was published online today by Vanity Fair.

[Son-Joshua]

Barry Soetoro has serious emotional problems. He writes about someone in his book and it’s actually a representation of many women he knew in the life? This is the guy w/the nuclear football.

[tobyhill]

He's a hallucinating narcissist. I'm totally convinced Obama was bisexual in his young adult life and someone has told him to never mention it as a politician.

[TheBattman]

Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.

I see two likely scenarios:

#1 - Obama just lied because thats what he does. #2 - Cause the "girlfriend" was a dude. While I see either as a possibility, I figure it is probably #1.

[tobyhill]

The third possibility is that the “composite” is that the “girlfriend” was a combination of dudes and gals.

[Defiant]

The idea that he ever had a girlfriend is composte.

[Falcon4.0]

Somebody needs to post a pic of a “Blow up Sex Doll”.

[Kenny Bunk]

Toby, last week was
"Yeah! Barry Is Not Gay" Week.
This week we are doing
"Barry, Friend of the Poor and Foreign Policy Wizard" Week.

[Billyv]

Obviously her name was Julia.

[dainbramaged]

I don't know about the "bi" part:
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2010/08/why-obama-is-subjected-to-blackmails/

[Dick Vomer]

Yeah.... a "composite" girlfriend. uh...ok, riiiiiiggghhhttt. Ya sure about the "girl" part are ya, Barry?

[a fool in paradise]

Her name was JULIA.

[tobyhill]

I wanted to revisit last week because I don’t know that having a make-believe “composite” girlfriend negates my belief that he is gay.

[a fool in paradise]

His social security number and academic record and autobiography manuscript are also “composites”.

[Kenny Bunk]

a make-believe “composite” girlfriend negates my belief that he is gay.

Rest easy, Toby! A well-respected "author" like David Maraniss would certainly never have published anything but the facts. You can take this to the bank:

"Barry is a red-blooded, all-American STUD!"

And while you're down at the bank, say a great big "Hi," to Mr. Maraniss who will undoubtedly also be there cashing a big Soros check!

Stud Bull ... I'm tellin ya. It is in the book!

[tobyhill]

My exact quote,

“I don’t know that having a make-believe “composite” girlfriend negates my belief that he is gay.”

[andy58-in-nh]

Obama is no less artificial than these things.

[a fool in paradise]

BOTH of Barack Obama’s parents abandoned him and he never once went to public schools. He was raised abroad with a transvestite nanny and then by a wealthy grandma.

He eventually grew to turn his back on the cultures in which he grew up, he says he didn’t want to be called a “sell-out”, and later presented himself as a non-American outsider.

This is the WRONG man to be our President because he just doesn’t get it what is great about America and is psychologically f*(*^ed up.

[SMARTY]

“This is the WRONG man to be our President because he just doesn’t get it what is great about America and is psychologically f*(*^ed up.”

So true...and demonstrated in everything he says and does. No one with any common sense could see him for anything else.

[NeoCaveman]

He writes about someone in his book and it’s actually a representation of many women he knew in the life? This is the guy w/the nuclear football.

I can see where one would attribute the wrong story to the wrong girlfriend when remembering things, such concatenation is one thing, but the intentional composting is creepy.