Article, and # 4.
Thanks, F1Eagle.
Posted on 07/30/2012 12:08:05 AM PDT by Kukai
David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barack Obama: The Story, is getting testy. And it is not hard to understand why. The Washington Post diva spent the last four years on his career book, released it in the heart of a heated re-election season, got the kind of exposure a Kardashian would envy, and now finds the book heading for the remainder racks weeks after its release. Oy vey!
As of this writing, the book ranks 1,696 on Amazon's bestseller list. By contrast, Edward Klein's unfriendly Obama tome, The Amateur, has outsold just every book this summer not centered on female bondage, spent weeks on top of New York Times top-ten list, and now ranks 55 on Amazon despite being out a month longer than The Story.
Rather than assess why his book tanked -- it is too honest for the left and too dishonest for the right -- Maraniss has turned his wrath on the people he seems to hold responsible for the book's failure -- namely, "obsessed conspiratorialists" like me. His pique has found its outlet in a mean-spirited Washington Post op-ed, a minor classic of journalistic myopia. Allow me to address its concerns.
The notion that the president was not born in the United States remains at the epicenter of the anti-Obama mythology.
The fact that Obama sold America a fictional story of his first few years makes his birth a valid subject of interest. That much said, no one at Joseph Farah's WND, the online publication that has driven the "birther" controversy, has ever claimed that Obama was born in Kenya or any other foreign country. Farah and others, myself included, have simply wanted to see the birth certificate and clear up the mystery that shrouds Obama's birth. The most prominent birther, of course, remains Barack...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
OMG!!! THE LIES!!! YOU DID GREAT WORK, THANKS!!
not only does the Kenyan Grandma say he was born in Kenya.....she says she was THEREvat the birth!!!!!
While not a bio, let me recommend “The Great Destroyer” by David Limbaugh’s. It will make you so angry that you can only read a little at time
It has not been established what nationality's passport he traveled under.
I could be corrected by another FReeper, but I don't think there was an outright ban on travel to Pakistan in 1981. An advisory certainly, but no ban that I'm aware of.
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It’s highly interesting that after more than fifty years of conservative ideology being thrust into the national consciousness (by W.F.Buckley and Barry Goldwater) and four years of having Obama jammed down our throats, these leftist yokels have no better grasp of the ideals of conservatism than before that time. It’s amusing to see liberals shake their heads where their tiny brains lie and wonder why large numbers of people don’t like the most leftist president ever elected.
And this idiot calls us obsessed w obama hatred? LOL
Maraniss is upset that his book is used to further discredit the lies of the obama narrative.
FUBO - 99 days till you are deposed!
Fiction about a fictional character portrayed as biographies.
Just when I thought I had heard it all! I had no idea that we did not have a definitive wedding date for Wookie and Zippo....
In other news: "Dreams of My Father," and "Audacity of Hope," continue churning out royalties for their "author." Every library, every school library, every college or university Library, every jail library, every government office, every reading room across the globe, every barracks day room, and every ship at see continue to order multiple copies in multiple editions in every known language ... paid for with tax dollars.
Latest royalties: reputedly some $72,000/month. Of course Maraniss is pissed. He gets Bupkis. What happened, although the Maraniss is a Liberal Obama Butt Kisser, some factoids inevitably found their way into print in his book that cast less than a glittering light on the Marxist Mulatto from Mombasa and do not agree with the official "autobiography" as penned by Bill Ayers. Uh-Oh ... not good!
Sorry Dave. How about a tell-all on Mamie Eisenhower? A coffee-tabler about the Monkees?
Article, and # 4.
Thanks, F1Eagle.
I don't have a copy but SAD's passports have different dates of the the marriage to Lolo. One of them was before the divorce from Sr. was filed.
I always found this interesting....
http://iaoj.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/obamas-mother-stayed-in-pakistan-for-5-years/
“Lahore (Pervez Al-Islam): The mother of American Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, Mrs. Ann Dunham lived in Pakistan for five years. During this time, Barack Obama also visited his mother and stayed for a few months. Mrs. Ann Dunham was hired as a consultant by the Asian Development Bank for Pakistan Agricultural Development Bank’s Gujranwalla Agricultural Development Program. This program began in 1987 and ended in 1992.
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She stayed for five years in the Hilton International Hotel...
She traveled daily from Lahore to Gujranwalla. When Barack Obama visited Pakistan, he stayed in the same hotel.”
If this is true...where is the ‘mother lives in Pakistan and son visits a lot” story line?
I don't have a copy but SAD's passports have different dates of the the marriage to Lolo. One of them was before the divorce from Sr. was filed.
What I have on divorce/marriage dates of that period:
1/20/1964 Date Stanley Ann signs paper swearing to mistreatment - paper is filed in divorce.
1/23/1964 Filing of Obama Stanley Ann Divorce
1/30/1964 Obama signs postal receipt for divorce papers (note - not papers themselves. I do not believe Obama Sr. ever actually signed the actual divorce papers. Just ignored them apparently.)
3/8/1964 Final divorce Decree for SAD and BHO Sr.
Above from here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18130289/Obama-1964-Divorce-Papers-13-Pages-Missing-Pg-11
8/4/1964 BHO turns 3. Only 3 years old when marriage to Lolo occurs. Less that 5 years old.
12/24/1964 Obama Senior marries Ruth Beatrice Baker in Kenya
3/15/1965 SAD marries Lolo Soetoro
4/1/1965 Soetoro family is supposed to live at 3326 Oahu Avenue
6/7/1965 Lolo given 1 year extension to remain in US. Extended to June 20, 1966
6/15/1965 Last day Lolo Soetoro is to stay in US under his relationship with UofH.
Lolo was to go back to politically troubled Indonesia 3 months before marrying SAD. Green card marriage? Just a thought.
Some key dates above are from here:
10/15/1965 Anti-communist purges and massacares start in Indonesia. Last until early 1966.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966
So no wonder Lolo did not want to go back....
11/30/1965 SADS signs affidavit on hardship. Indicating it would not (repeat - not) be a hardship under the law. Indicates she is living with her parents. Note conflict with above about where family is living.
3/15/1966 Anti-communist purges and massacares start in Indonesia mostly end.
7/20/1966 Lolo S returns to Indonesia
8/4/1966 BHO turns 5. International citizenship transfer under treaty supposedly not possible after this date.
9/1/1966 BHO supposedly attends Noelani School in Hawaii during 66-67 school year
1967 - A common date that is in many MSM and biographies as to the year Lolo and SAD married. Time magazine did a long article with this date. As we know it is untrue. But the 1967 date is so prevalent it is a reasonable question why was this date never researched or documented accurately in 2007 and 2008?
Impressive research...thanks.
Don’t you mean Pok-ee-stan?
Agreed for the most part..but he does have a little fake Islamic/Christian flavor and a little gay flirting mixed in with a little "where in the world was Obama born" to keep people guessing.
It's all just great fun for a "social organizer" who really just wants to play golf.
What's a bored commie golfer to do in his spare time but mess with people? Commie leaders have to be entertained as well. Messing with his fake image must be a great hobby...most narcissists would approve.
Me..any news or speculation about Obama bores me now. That's why the book tanked.
“Jack Cashill are making stuff up.” - Barry Soetero
Thanks, LucyT. Will read entire piece later. Ya think a FReeper wrote the review?
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