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Obama: 'New York girlfriend' was composite
Politico ^ | Wednesday May 2, 2012

Posted on 05/02/2012 10:05:45 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called 'New York girlfriend.' Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.

But Obama has now told biographer David Maraniss that the 'New York girlfriend' was actually a composite character, based off of multiple girlfriends he had both in New York City and in Chicago.

"During an interview in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that, while Genevieve was his New York girlfriend, the description in his memoir was a “compression” of girlfriends, including one who followed Genevieve [Cook] when he lived in Chicago," Maraniss writes in his new biography, an excerpt of which was published online today by Vanity Fair.

Though Dreams From My Father is an autobiography, and hence non-fiction, Obama makes no mention of this "compression," nor is their any note by the publisher, Broadway Books. In fact, Obama only acknowledged the "compression" after Maraniss learned that Cook had no recollection of some of the events at which Obama said she was present.

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None of this happened with Genevieve. She remembered going to the theater only once with Barack, and it was not to see a work by a black playwright. When asked about this decades later, during a White House interview, Obama acknowledged that the scene did not happen with Genevieve. “It is an incident that happened,” he said. But not with her. He would not be more specific,

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; boyfriends; cultureofcorruption; duplicate; fakebutaccurate; fraud; ghostwritten; lying; mythmaking; obama; obamagay; obamagirlfriend; obamalies; obamaquotes; obamascandals; obamatruthfile; workoffiction; yellowjournalism
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To: Bigtigermike

"You Lie"

41 posted on 05/02/2012 10:41:57 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Bigtigermike

Why would he admit to this? Was he under pressure to reveal her identity? It’s strange that so much is coming out of his “biographies” now, like no one bothered to read them when he was running in 2008.


42 posted on 05/02/2012 10:43:04 AM PDT by bethelgrad
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To: Bigtigermike

Seems like Obama used quite a few “compressions” and fake descriptions in his “Auto-Biography”.

Maybe Oprah should be outraged like she was when James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces was discovered to be well....factually not accurate....


43 posted on 05/02/2012 10:50:35 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Bigtigermike

All of his multiple girlfriends had in common modesty, reticence, very old-fashioned discretion, a dislike for public attention.

And then he met Michelle....


44 posted on 05/02/2012 10:50:35 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: barmag25


45 posted on 05/02/2012 10:53:12 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Bigtigermike; Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
You don't say...


46 posted on 05/02/2012 10:53:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama has cut and run from what he called "the right war".)
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To: Bigtigermike
As I was posting my comment above I was listening on line to RL who simultaneously mentioned the piece. I've listened to Rush since 1988. He can be quite good and on point at times, but at other times you can hear him pull back obviously afraid to confront any 'conspiracy' issue lest he lose revenue.

He KNOWS Obama didn't write 'Dreams'. And he KNOWS Ayers did, but he he chooses to dance around the subject. The primary reason this marxist fraud was elected in 2008 was because of his book, 'Dreams', considered the greatest literary masterpiece EVER by a President. In 'Deconstructing Obama' Jack Cashill, Ph.D., clearly and definitively PROVES Bill Ayers wrote the book; Obama did not date women; and that the NY girlfriend 'compression' was in fact Diana Oughton, Ayer's marxist terrorist elitist Long Island girlfriend killed in a bomb-making accident.

Too bad Rush and every other so-called Conservative voice in America are nothing but Chicken-Sh*t RINO's!

47 posted on 05/02/2012 10:58:25 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: a fool in paradise

“My wife is er....Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that’s the ticket!”


48 posted on 05/02/2012 11:03:31 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Bigtigermike

Obama?

Girlfriend?

Bwahahahahahahahah.


49 posted on 05/02/2012 11:06:39 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Bigtigermike

Fictional character, fictional autobiography...


50 posted on 05/02/2012 11:07:40 AM PDT by Lou L (The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

A new tagline for me.


51 posted on 05/02/2012 11:09:02 AM PDT by Kirkwood (It's not a lie. It's a composite.)
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To: Doc Savage; Bigtigermike
You heard it here first.

In the run-up to the election, The Mombasa MF is going to be touted as the biggest STUD ever. Team Obama is pulling out all the stops to quash those nasty "Gay" rumors, right now, Sweetie!

Headlines coming to tabloid near you soon:

Michelle Furious over Hubby's Contacts with Old Flame!
Is Barry This Hottie's Baby Daddy?
Starlet Swoons In Obama's Arms!
What a Dancer!
Michelle Complaining about Barry's Roving Eye!

Etc. ad naus.

Barry gay? No Way Hosay!
He's the macho man who slew Osama bin Ladin!
Woulda gotten all those al qaeda bastards, too, if those Navy Seal pansies hadn't gotten in the way!

Wadda Guy!

52 posted on 05/02/2012 11:12:05 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: LucyT; Jedidah; tomdavidd; Freeper; Gvl_M3; Flotsam_Jetsome; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; ...

Told ya!


53 posted on 05/02/2012 11:15:53 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: Bigtigermike
It's telling what Obama chose to lie about. A made-up racial incident showing Whitey's insensitivity to the black plight.

Just like "police acted stupidly" and "Trayvon could be my son".

What a racist, hateful divider this prick of a president is
54 posted on 05/02/2012 11:16:31 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Joe 6-pack
Barack's GF was actually Bill Ayers' love interest

Yes, what better way to deflect criticism by saying "she's just a composite".

I'm wondering if they're trying to preempt uncoming "auto-biography vetting" by Breitbart.

55 posted on 05/02/2012 11:19:12 AM PDT by what's up
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To: a fool in paradise

I hear that Thai hospitals are quite good at making those “composites.”


56 posted on 05/02/2012 11:22:16 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Bigtigermike

57 posted on 05/02/2012 11:28:37 AM PDT by PLD (It is time the freeloaders leave the white house and go back to the hell hole where they came from..)
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To: Sacajaweau
We call it a big fat lie!!

He is a big fat lie.

58 posted on 05/02/2012 11:47:39 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Bigtigermike
from the Vanity Fair article:

Obama: "there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type."

Note that "bourgeois liberalism" is how hard-core Marxists describe free-market constitutional republics.

Obama would lounge around, drinking coffee and solving the New York Times crossword puzzle, bare-chested, wearing a blue and white sarong.

Add "watching SportsCenter" to the list and that probably describes how he spends his current days until they tell him he needs to read the teleprompter...

59 posted on 05/02/2012 11:50:45 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Bigtigermike

We all know the book is a ghost written work of fiction.


60 posted on 05/02/2012 11:58:39 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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