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Who is Barack Obama and why has he been saying those untrue things about himself?
PowerLine ^ | 6/20/2012 | Paul Mirengoff

Posted on 06/20/2012 12:52:41 PM PDT by mojito

...David Maraniss’ new biography of Barack Obama makes clear that our president lied to his autobiography to the point that the book is “literature and memoir, not history and autobiography.” Maraniss adds that “The character creations and rearrangements of the book are not merely a matter of style, devices of compression, but are also substantive.”

But Obama presented Dreams From My Father as autobiography, not literature. The book does contain a disclaimer. Obama wrote that the dialogue in the book is “an approximation” and that some of the characters in his book had been compressed or combined. But he did not disclose that his character creations and other “rearrangements” altered the substance of his life story.

Maraniss is a smart guy. He must have known early on in the project, and maybe even before he commenced it, that Dreams From My Father would not hold up as an accurate account of Obama’s life.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dreamsfrommyfather; lying; makingthingsup; obama
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To: Albion Wilde

One more thing ... it would explain why he so totally ignores his African ‘family’ via Obama, Sr. .... no relation.


21 posted on 06/20/2012 5:39:16 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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I’ve seen another comparison of Obummer to Malcolm X - both are smiling. The similarity is stunning.

Well, if they're both smiling, they have to be related.

why the path was paved for this skinny little ‘nobody’ with a sleep-around mom.

Sounds like you know more about Momma Obama's sex life than anybody else does. Do you have any facts to back this up?

22 posted on 06/20/2012 5:45:40 PM PDT by x
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To: trisham
I sincerely hope that there won’t ever be a necessity for me to identify anyone in a lineup. :)

Same to ya! LOL!

23 posted on 06/20/2012 6:55:13 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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