Posted on 05/02/2012 12:18:02 PM PDT by Nachum
It only took nearly six years for the media to begin vetting President Obama’s past.
Today, Vanity Fair released an excerpt from a new biography of Barack Obama by David Maraniss. The excerpt discusses Barack Obama's first love affair, with a white Australian woman named Genevieve Cook. It's a telling examination of who Obama was as a young man -- and it shows a self-absorbed "internationalist" with delusions of grandeur.
Photo credit Vanity Fair.
The book itself sounds like an ode to Obama. Maraniss writes, “At age 20, Obama was a man of the world … He could not be of one place, rooted and provincial.” No, says Maraniss, this was a broadminded young man who “knew the ways of different cultures better than he knew himself.”
When he first moved to New York, he was in the midst of an affair with Alexandra McNear, a girl from Occidental. They exchanged a series of purple letters with one another – turgid missives from overfevered young minds. Here, for example, is tendentious Obama explaining poetry to his young girlfriend:
I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time. Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets,
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So was the photo taken when Obama was at college or was it taken when he was in high school attending the event.
And yes, the writing on the blackboard is weird. What’s with the vodka etc for high school students?
He went to Occidental for 79-81...So he wouldn’t have been 21 until after August.
more info on the photo
http://gulagbound.com/21458/even-republicans-rejected-info-about-obamas-past/
1983 or 1980???
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2718931/posts?page=96#96
No source quoted, but we have been there before...
To: Brown Deer
“Le bilinguisme arabe-français au Liban”, by Sélim Abou, Presses Universitaires de France, 1962 says this
“Garçons : Collège Notre-Dame de Jamhour (Jésuites)”.
If it was a boys’ school in 1962, it was in the 1950s.
OK.
96 posted on Friday, 13 May 2011 9:53:30 AM by Will Escott
Courtesy ping Brown Deer, you might remember?
I have more of them, do you want some? I got mine from the fellow who created the ‘mama told me there would be days like this video’ - Doesn’t mean a thing to freepers who can’t get it through their heads that SAD wasn’t the mother. Most of them don’t want to know. They would rather have her in a liason with the 40 years older than her quite ugly little FMD with his dumpling nose and barrel chest who had an attractive, wealthy wife and five children, than accept they have been FOOLED into believing the Stanley Ann Dunham myth.
You can try telling them. I quit.
He came and went...but he’s right I think, that school wasn’t co-ed until the seventies.
Which all goes to remind me that we never did find any real evidence that Stanley Ann was at Mercer Island High School when they wanted us to believe she was, and there always was the possibility that the Dunhams DID spend some time working in the middle east...why not?...Rolla Payne apparently was involved with selling oil drilling equipment and the leasing of land to Standard Oil, for which company the geologist Oscar Van Beveren who worked for Standard Oil for 30 years, was married to Mary-Agnes who was related by marriage to Mary the baby-sitter. A period of employment in the middle east for Stanley Armour isn’t out of the question, it would have been around the period in the early fifties when their where-abouts are rather cloudy.
I think you’ll fathom why he might have ended up there, and why the working for a furniture store as a saleman is a bit wonky as well.
It’s just that we can’t place her into that particular school, because from all I can see, it was a school for boys only at that time.
And there’s never been a source for that piece of ‘information’ about the initials on her clothing.
maybe that’s the reason for the name Stanley.
I think you’ll fathom why he might have ended up there, and why the working for a furniture store as a saleman is a bit wonky as well.
The furniture salesman thing always sounded weird to me.
Because she was really a boy? LOL!
you’ll have to go to the webpage to read it, I can’t cut and paste from it for some reason, the entire idea appears to have come from Nicoloff, I suspected as much, it’s from the Three Stooges Go To Washington series. (At the end of which he had images that show zero was a lizard...)
I will not dispute, in fact I would be only too happy to support, any theory that the Dunhams spent time in the Middle East, but it will take a better source than Nicoloff for me to take that seriously. Obviously there’s something missing in the story, they didn’t destroy Stanley Armour’s records for no reason.
ALMOST MISSED THE IMDB LINK YOU POSTED.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ixnuPd1AAw
Anna Rosas, Death Dispatch @ 9.01
Produced in 1962 - 1963 Episode 13.
http://www.dissolute.com.au/avweb/season2/213cast.html
Shoot! The Obama adds are not there now.
Do you think Zero knows who his parents actually are? I would suppose he knows who his father is, he certainly showed no family feeling towards his fake family.
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