Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Obama Biographer: “The Vessel Was Hollow To The Core”
powerlineblog.com ^ | MAY 7, 2017

Posted on 05/07/2017 9:28:58 PM PDT by Helicondelta

David Garrow, the award-winning biographer of Martin Luther King, has written a biography of Barack Obama. It’s called Rising Star.

Carlos Lozada, a liberal who reviews books for the Washington Post, considers Garrow’s biography of Obama here. According to Lozada:

Garrow. . .concludes his massive new work with a damning verdict on Obama’s determination: “While the crucible of self-creation had produced an ironclad will, the vessel was hollow at its core.”

Based on Lozada’s review, it appears that Garrow supports this conclusion in part by examining Obama’s relationship with his long-time girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager. The two nearly married, but ultimately, according to Jager:

The marriage discussions [were clouded by Obama’s] torment over this central issue of life. . .race and identity. [The] resolution of his black identity was directly linked to his decision to pursue a political career.

In this telling, Obama worried that marrying a non-black would preclude a successful career in Chicago politics. A source close to Obama and Jager recalled Obama saying “if I’m going out with a white women, I have no standing here.”

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; biography; bookreview; davidgarrow; hollow; hollowtothecore; obamabio; risingstar; shattered
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-43 next last

1 posted on 05/07/2017 9:28:58 PM PDT by Helicondelta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Dear old Valerie Jarrett fixed up the whole deal between wee barry and the MOOOOCH, from the get go; wee barry has NEVER had enough working brain cells to even figure THAT out all on his own!


2 posted on 05/07/2017 9:35:32 PM PDT by nopardons
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

All documented on FR.


3 posted on 05/07/2017 9:39:06 PM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nopardons

Were it not for his political ambition, Barry would have stuck to white women with the occasional homosexual liaison on the side.

Will be interesting to see what becomes of the Barry-Michelle political arrangement now that the White House run is over, the kids are leaving home, and everyone’s filthy rich.


4 posted on 05/07/2017 9:42:22 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (No Wall No Money. Just say no to GOP $olicitations.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Yup, as much as a narcissist can, he was probably in love with her but she wasn’t convenient for his and his masters’ agenda.


5 posted on 05/07/2017 9:45:35 PM PDT by GnuThere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dagnabitt
Will be interesting to see what becomes of the Barry-Michelle political arrangement

Your question will be answered by looking at the Clinton marriage. Nothing will upset their money making apple cart.

6 posted on 05/07/2017 9:46:15 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: GnuThere

“Empty suit” says it all.


7 posted on 05/07/2017 9:46:26 PM PDT by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

bmp


8 posted on 05/07/2017 9:49:01 PM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dagnabitt
I am probably THE biggest anti-tinfoil hat/anti-conspiracy theory person there is, buy wee barry was bred and raised for the political life he did lead, so no, the little MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE/puppet would have always done what his "masters" told him, to do.

These "white women", now pulled out of thin air, make a good "cover story" for past record of blatant homosexuality.

Dear old Val set him up at that "white shoe" law firm, where he didn't really do anything, but where the MOOOCH was a sub handler. Val told him that he had to go to that crazy church, to marry the Moooch, and he did exactly as he was told to do...though he still went on homosexual tears and went also went looking for late teenaged white guys, who also had political ambitions and parents with lots of money and who were corrupt as hell to boot.

9 posted on 05/07/2017 9:59:10 PM PDT by nopardons
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

If you translate David Garrow’s quote into regular English; does that mean he’s saying Obama was/is full of sh*t?


10 posted on 05/07/2017 10:00:41 PM PDT by lee martell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

It shows how empty Obama was that it doesn’t even feel like he was ever President. He came and went and no one really cares.


11 posted on 05/07/2017 10:01:01 PM PDT by BestPresidentEver
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

A cardboard cutout at least has the depth of the thickness of cardboard. unlike our previous president who has a birth certificuit from 2-D flatland...


12 posted on 05/07/2017 10:04:15 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Barry married for “political viability”..... nice for Moochelle to serve as both his beard and his racial correctness!! That’s a two-fer!!


13 posted on 05/07/2017 10:06:28 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CaptainK

Your question will be answered by looking at the Clinton marriage. Nothing will upset their money making apple cart.

**************************************************************

What’s really creepy and offensive to me, is that in the Clinton’s case, their long marriage is held up as a paragon of longevity, devotion, and a belief in the institution of marriage. But then right is wrong and wrong is right, with liberals.


14 posted on 05/07/2017 10:10:53 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: GraceG
100%... mere electrons on a screen and magnetism on a harddrive
15 posted on 05/07/2017 10:16:15 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

racist to the core


16 posted on 05/07/2017 10:19:47 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

It’s like having nine years of Freerepublic comments about Obama thrown back in our faces like it’s some sort of revelation. We knew Mr. Author, we knew.


17 posted on 05/07/2017 10:40:18 PM PDT by SpaceBar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: txhurl
All documented on FR.

In the relatively short time I've been here, it's crossed my mind many times that FR needs to be archived somewhere reliable and hardened against the elements and sabotage.

Decades or centuries from now, the material on this site and the comments accompanying them would be PRICELESS to historians and scholars sincerely interested in the truth about our time.

18 posted on 05/07/2017 11:35:59 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: nopardons

Never having read it, but having read a lot about it, I get the impression that this weighty tome is designed to be the “real” Obama bio, so that when a slew of tell-alls finally come out, and they will, Obama and his sycophants can point to this book as the “official” story.


19 posted on 05/07/2017 11:46:15 PM PDT by JennysCool
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Ciaphas Cain

True.

We knew it all, which means the electorate are damn fools. The evidence was all there, but they decided the media was NEWS. No. It had no relation to the truth.

Obama had little connection to black America.

He had no real father, just an African sperm donor.

He was rejected very early by BOTH parents.

His stepfather claimed to Indonesia that Barry was his son, and he attended Muslim school.

He was molested very early and continuously by a black perv communist.

There is evidence he needed a fake SS number to get any job when young.

There is talk of him engaging with men for money while in high school.

He lived with foreign students at Occidental and spent the summer in Pockeestahn with his “best friend.” They enjoyed sitting closer together on the couch than most young men do.

He spouted communist propaganda almost mindlessly and hung with communist professors.

He met Bill Ayers and other revolutionary terrorists while in NY. When the white talking mocha skinned guy named Barack Obama walked in to the Weathermen headquarters, it must have been like the plumpest hen strolling right into a fox’s den. We can put down this explosives now, and just WALK into the White House with THIS GUY as our figurehead. He’s already spouting the communist crap, and he is easily owned what with his crack smoking and male blow job needs. It was almost downhill from there.


20 posted on 05/07/2017 11:59:20 PM PDT by Yaelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-43 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson