Did Maraniss Commit Fraud to Protect Obama?

American Thinker ^ | June 23, 2012 | Jack Cashill

[melancholy]

Glad I didn’t vote for him....

Nothing whatsoever would have made me vote for him, NOTHING!

[melancholy]

Good question. I only have an X-rated answer.

I think I’ll hold my peace.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"Every miniscule blot of anything and everything surrounding this Obama...person is fraudulant and smells like festering excrement in and on rotting flesh."

Don't water it down on our account. Tell us how you really feel.
:)

[x]

See my post #46. Obama was a scrawny guy at the time and in pictures his head often looks like it's too big for his body. As in this picture:

Also, in the Genevieve picture, he's got a fuller 'fro, which helps his head look that much bigger, and a scarf and several layers of clothing that eat up his neck.

Of course, you could go full on conspiratorial and argue that he wasn't even in the country, so the story and the photo would have to be faked.

But I don't think it would be out of the question for Obama, whatever his sexuality, to have known Genevieve and been photographed with her.

Nowadays, everybody's an expert. Photography, documents, computer graphics, printouts -- everybody has a CSI-type explanation, but not every photo that looks funny was actually faked.

[little jeremiah]

The photo with him and the woman is photoshopped, there is no doubt about it, graphics people such as Phil Dragoo and others have proved it. Your comments defending 0mugabe are very - odd.

Courtesy ping to Phil D.

[PhilDragoo]

FAUXBAMA HEAD EVOLVING RE GAY MARRIAGE

[Chode]

YES!!!

[little jeremiah]

Thank you, Phil D. x, take a look. His head is huge in the photoshopped pic with the woman because it was photoshopped, it’s patently obvious! The freak has a tiny head.

[wardaddy]

never realized till this moment that Obama was living in NYC attending Columbia at same time I was living there with my Barnard professor girlfriend

and in the same neighborhood within 2 blocks

how weird....

[x]

So are there two Obamas? Big-head Obama and small-head Obama? For certainly there are big-headed Obama photographs out there. Small-headed Obama photographs also exist, particularly when his hair is short or he's wearing that jacket.

Notice in the the sofa picture that Obama is leaning back, with his chin forward closer to the camera and the rest of his head apparently resting on the top of the sofa. This produces a foreshortening effect that makes the head look smaller than it otherwise would.

His legs, which are closer to the camera than the rest of his body, also look larger than they would appear to be if everything were in the same plane. Do you really not notice that? This is all Perspective 101.

And perhaps, if you look at that sofa photo long enough, it may also start to look fake -- something about the contrasts between the shirts and the couch. If you look at anything long enough it will look fake. Just about anything can look pasted in if you stare at it for a while.

Here's big-head Obama, another photo taken in the stacks at Harvard Law. Obama may be leaning into the camera, or the photographer may be leaning or pointing in such a way as to make Obama's head appear larger. Perhaps a lens is used that distorts everything, including the bookcases:

Here is small-head Obama with what could be the same jacket as the Genevieve picture, taken about the same time as the Harvard Law big-head Obama pictures:

By golly if it doesn't look a little fake, too. Actually, though, the head's the same size, but the coat and the collar make the head look smaller than it would if weren't wearing the extra layers.

I'm not saying that Obama actually had much of a relationship with Genevieve. And I'm not saying that the picture definitely isn't or couldn't have been faked. I'm just saying that it wouldn't have been impossible for such a picture to have been taken. It wouldn't have been necessary to have faked such a picture -- maybe he wasn't quite that scared of girls. And sometimes one has to have a little skepticism about one's own skepticism. Not everything that looks a little odd or unnatural is faked or photoshopped.