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Blistering new biography studies Barack Obama's relationships with well-educated ex-girlfriends including Genevieve Cook and Alexandra McNear. President makes only fleeting references to former partners in his memoirs. Book by Pulitzer-winning journalist David Marannis paints unflattering picture of Obama's drive to be seen as a pioneering race warrior... inconsistencies between the Marannis book and Obama's own memoirs

When Genevieve Cook first met Barack Obama in the kitchen of a mutual friend’s New York flat, he was wearing jeans, a T-shirt and a dark leather jacket. It was 1983, and she was impressed when this cool, self-assured young man could tell immediately she was Australian. In those days most Americans, even supposedly cosmopolitan New Yorkers, couldn’t tell a Cockney from a Kiwi.

Let the games begin. Gingrich’s ex-wife is paraded out for a tell-all about her marriage, creating doubts about Newt’s morality. Rick Perry’s hunting camp rock of decades ago gets more ink than the Iranian war games, and he’s questioned about his bigotry. Herman Cain is confronted with old girlfriends and we all know how that turned out. I’m sure that if Michele Bachmann had fared better, we would have learned that she kicked her dog and underfed her dozens of children, making her a contemporary Mommie Dearest. As for Ron Paul, well, in the media most dismiss him as just...