Obama's Memoir A Tissue Of Lies

IBD Editorials ^ | May 3, 2012

[Kaslin]

Public Trust: Our president, it seems, is quite the fabulist. A new book reveals he fabricated yet another story in his 1995 memoir, this one about a white girlfriend complaining about black anger.

In his supposedly nonfiction memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama claims he and the girlfriend got into a "big fight" after seeing a New York play by a black writer. He became annoyed when she allegedly asked "why black people were so angry all the time."

Obama biographer David Maraniss contacted the former girlfriend, Genevieve Cook, who insists the scene never took place. She says they never even saw a show by a black playwright.

Maraniss, who works for the Washington Post, snagged an interview with the president and asked him about the discrepancy. Obama agreed with Cook's account.

So why did he make up the anecdote? He told Maraniss it was a "useful theme to make about sort of the interactions that I had in the relationships with white girlfriends."

How convenient — especially when the overall theme of his bitter memoir is white racism.

Obama told another whopper in his autobiography. He wrote that while thumbing through a copy of Life magazine, he came across a story about a black man who underwent chemical treatments to lighten his skin. He claims he recoiled in horror at the photo of the bleached man, who looked like "an albino."

Then he says he got so angry that "I felt my face and neck get hot." He was upset that blackness was so condemned in America that a black man would resort to making himself white.

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So we now know of Obama’s one ex-girlfriend. How long did it take to dig up that information? Or are her tales as true as the two released birth certificates? Three years should be long enough to create a pretty good cover story.

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So we now know of Obama’s one ex-girlfriend. How long did it take to dig up that information? Or are her tales as true as the two released birth certificates? Three years should be long enough to create a pretty good cover story.

[Shelayne]

Obama told another whopper in his autobiography. He wrote that while thumbing through a copy of Life magazine, he came across a story about a black man who underwent chemical treatments to lighten his skin. He claims he recoiled in horror at the photo of the bleached man, who looked like "an albino."

Pfffft. He was probably stoned and saw the skit on Saturday Night Live, "White Like Me" where Eddie Murphy plastered on a pale face to see how it *really* was to be a white man.

It was hilarious.

Zero; however, is a doofus.

[what's up]

I'm wondering when someone will mention the little bit of "BLOW" he did which he mentions in his book.

The public never did find out about that one. Time to vet it.

[bicyclerepair]

I’m shocked that the radio station here that has Rush on actually said something about his sealed college records.

And I’ve been checking yahoo story comments lately, vast majority are against barry and the first wookie.

[Charles Martel]

Even his phantom girlfriend was racist.
His whole psyche is racist.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up. If he didn't have a racist white girlfriend (he likely did not), he'd have to make one up (he probably did).

[wetgundog]

Obama’s phantom “girlfriends” all had penises.

[peeps36]

He had to lie since the truth was so embarrassing. Homosexuality, crack and laziness doesn’t sound very presidential.

[Travis McGee]

Don’t blame Obama, he didn’t write his “auto”-biography.

Bill Ayers did.

[Vide]

The spin I heard on NPR this afternoon was that Obama was "misquoted in his autobiography".

Just wow.

[ChocChipCookie]

Taking a date to a social event does not a “girlfriend” make. It sounds like that was pretty much the extent of his “girlfriends”.

[ntnychik]

David Maraniss can visit a composite? Remarkable. I think all the girlfriend talk is inoculation against boyfriend talk anticipated in the campaign.

I remember reading a magazine article in the 60’s about a black man who bleached his skin. I think it was in Look Magazine, which would explain why nobody found it in Life.

[Maurice Tift]

  What about the time when he was a stowaway on one of the Apollo capsules and got into that big fight with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

[Maurice Tift]

  I'm sorry. He was on the lunar module when that happened.

[WhiskeyX]

So, what are the potential civil damages for defrauding purchasers of the book of fiction falsely advertised as a book of non-ficton?

[WhiskeyX]

So, what are the potential civil damages for defrauding purchasers of the book of fiction falsely advertised as a book of non-ficton?

[Jim from C-Town]

hey man, my girlfriend in Niagara Falls is real! And she is smokin’ hot! So there!

[RightOnline]

" I'm sorry. He was on the lunar module when that happened."

A common mistake, really.

However, it wasn't the moon.....it was actually when he was on Uranus.

Well, not yours, mind you, but........

[ArrogantBustard]

IOW, he got angry when asked why black people (one of whom, he purports to be) are so angry all the time.

Yes ... that's a familiar theme in some cultures.

[Fresh Wind]

As others have pointed out, this is “Obama isn’t gay” week. His handlers are more worried about that lurking problem than the fallout from Obama being caught in another lie.