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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.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; biography; bookreview; davidgarrow; hollow; hollowtothecore; obamabio; risingstar; shattered
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To: Helicondelta
"“The Vessel Was Hollow To The Core”"

A two dimensional invention, like a garment on a wire frame.
21 posted on 05/08/2017 12:11:12 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Dagnabitt

occasional homosexual liaison on the side


Hmm I don’t think Reggie Love was “occasional”...


22 posted on 05/08/2017 12:19:15 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Helicondelta

Ears an empty suit. Whodathunk it?


23 posted on 05/08/2017 2:37:06 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Helicondelta

About as big a fiction as the autobiography of Mark Twain.


24 posted on 05/08/2017 2:54:22 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: nopardons
These "white women", now pulled out of thin air, make a good "cover story" for past record of blatant homosexuality.

You are 100% correct.


25 posted on 05/08/2017 2:59:01 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Helicondelta

It’s called Rising Star. correction “rising farce”


26 posted on 05/08/2017 3:19:16 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Dagnabitt

Fake president, fake wife, fake kids.


27 posted on 05/08/2017 3:30:20 AM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Hillary should look at Macron and trade in Bill for a 40 yr old before 2020


28 posted on 05/08/2017 3:31:41 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: jmacusa
“fake kids”

The older daughter got her wiry build from her father, but she looks very much like her mother in photos of Michelle throughout her life. Also, the older one resembles her maternal grandmother.

The Obama marriage obviously is a political one, but this contention the kids aren't their biokids is very far-fetched.

29 posted on 05/08/2017 3:51:31 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: utahagen

Except that there seem to be no birth records for either “daughter”. If anyone has located them, we’re all waiting to see them.


30 posted on 05/08/2017 4:19:42 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: Helicondelta

EXCLUSIVE: ‘They went back and forth having sex, screaming, yelling, having sex.’ Meet the college professor who Barack Obama loved and lost because he ‘wasn’t black enough to have a white wife’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4474842/The-college-professor-President-Obama-loved-lost.html


31 posted on 05/08/2017 4:40:30 AM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: All
hollow to the core

Exactly how a person will be if God is not in their life and that explains BHO to a tee.

32 posted on 05/08/2017 4:51:24 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: Helicondelta
Sam Kass, Bam Bam's personal White House chef.


33 posted on 05/08/2017 4:51:32 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: pepsionice

No kiddin’...


34 posted on 05/08/2017 5:07:48 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Enchante
Barry married for “political viability”.....

I am loathe to defend the guy, BUT....

So did the Kennedys. Prince Charles. Hillary Clinton. Many, many other people.


35 posted on 05/08/2017 5:54:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Helicondelta
"Obama worried that marrying a non-black would preclude a successful career in Chicago politics."

“Racism, we are not cured of, clearly. And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘nigger’ in public.

— President Barry Soetoro

36 posted on 05/08/2017 6:00:34 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: nopardons
These "white women", now pulled out of thin air, make a good "cover story" for past record of blatant homosexuality.

Bingo

37 posted on 05/08/2017 6:56:08 AM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: Tucker39

Not a challenge, just a sincere question: is it possible that the daughters’ birth records have been sealed because salient data about Barack is on it, such as HIS birth place? My point is that the older daughter looks so much like Michelle that the chances are greater there’s something about Barack that would be revealed on his daughters’ birth certificates than that — what? the girls have never existed? Even if they weren’t born to Barack and Michelle, they would have to have been adopted by them. So, where are those adoption records? If those records could be hidden, couldn’t birth records be hidden? I understand the argument that Obama wasn’t born in the US, but I don’t get at all the the-daughters-aren’t-theirs...wouldn’t they have to have belonged to somebody originally?!


38 posted on 05/08/2017 9:12:25 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: utahagen

You may be right, and it’s not a biggie with me, but the story goes that Rev. Wright’s outfit had a scheme “on the Dow Low” whereby they arranged marriages for queer men, cobbled up families, etc. for them so they could enter politics or business and look respectable. Nowadays, all that finnagling might not be necessary.


39 posted on 05/08/2017 10:52:49 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: Helicondelta

I’m expecting some liberals to have trouble with this.

Take out the names, and at the core, you have this. A guy who claims to love you, but then decides to retract a marriage proposal because his career is more important than you, and you’re the wrong color.


40 posted on 05/08/2017 10:52:58 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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