[justiceseeker93]

The guess here is that Maraniss didn't bother to check the accuracy of the alleged facts that wound up in his "biography" of Obama. The New York Slimes is implicitly confirming that when they report that Obama's supposed landlord in the early 80s denies having known him (reminiscent of his purported Columbia classmates from the immediately preceding time frame).

They are probably looking to promote the Maraniss book because it is the friendliest Obama biography ever written by someone other than Obama himself.

[x]

The guess here is that Maraniss didn't bother to check the accuracy of the alleged facts that wound up in his "biography" of Obama.

Probably not. But just what's at issue here? She was a woman. They knew each other. They may have gone out a few times. Did Obama or Maraniss claim there was any more to it than that?

This is "the other shoe dropping." The first shoe was that the girl in the book was a "composite" based on other women Obama had dated. The second shoe dropping is the admission that there wasn't much of anything going on with the women who were "composited" or "compressed": it was invention more than anything else.

But still, one doesn't have to jump to the conclusion that Obama is gay from that. Turning acquaintances into "girlfriends" based on very little interaction is something a lot of guys have done. It happens a lot in Nerdworld.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.