Barack Obama's missing year

WND ^ | April 07, 2011 | Jack Cashill

[RobinMasters]

In his definitive 2010 biography of Barack Obama, "The Bridge," New Yorker editor David Remnick features a photograph of a dapper young Barack Obama sitting between his grandparents on a Central Park bench.

The bench is real. The grandparents are real. The wall behind them is real. Barack Obama is not. He has been conspicuously photoshopped in. Who did this and why remains as much a mystery as Obama's extended stay in New York.

In late October 2007, the New York Times ran a telling article on Barack Obama headlined, "Obama's Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say."

Given that he was an announced candidate for president, and an underdog at that, the Times expected Obama to welcome the chance to reconcile his account in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," with the accounts of those who knew him.

"Yet," lamented the newly neutered Times, "he declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."

A campaign spokesman, Ben LaBolt, offered a painfully lame explanation for Obama's reticence, "He doesn't remember the names of a lot of people in his life."

[TEXOKIE]

Interesting thread! Thanks!

[Newton]

exactly!!! if there was a guy in one of my classes that was soooo dazzlingly brilliant, that grave great insight and perspective, AND had an usual name and had lived in interesting places... dam straight I would remember him!! I would have been out there saying publicly...”wow, that genius from my psych class is president!!! how lucky am I to have shared the same air space with him!!!” (yes that is sarcasism ;-) )