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I don’t even think he had a fabricated past. It seems to me, the electorate didn’t care that he had no past. No mother, no siblings, no friends, fraternities, sports history, Boy Scouts, childhood work history.

He grew up in Indonesia. That’s known. It has nothing to do with the Black history of this country he was capitalizing on, even to college graduates I know.

no one knows him from school, Columbia or Harvard. no instructors. he has no cousins, Uncles, no certain last name. There are no photos of his parents. If a Stephen Ambrose type wanted to do a biography, like he did with Truman or even the Brooklyn Bridge, there’d be a page and a half.

I think we knew this. He said there were 57 states.

If Dana Milbank wants to ponder why he’s losing the millennials, he should take a look at that. When my students and I were passing time one day, looking through you tube, waiting for the bell to ring, after we’d seen some great movie, I don’t know, Cool Hand Luke or Hud, or a Buster Keaton short, they asked me to go to Obama saying there were 57 states. THey laughed, but resent that they had this idiot foisted on them who couldn’t pass a fifth grade American History tenet.

I was not the sort of material to become President when I was in college. But people who were there with me do remember me. Friends I have had for over 30 years now, and a large circle of acquaintances. A few years ago, at my uncle’s funeral, an older gentleman came up to me; he was my uncle’s supervisor in the math department at the high school where my uncle taught. He wanted to convey greetings from his daughter who remembered me from IU 25 years earlier. We dated a couple times, nothing serious. But she remembered me. (And I absolutely remembered her, too).

But nobody remembers 0bama. Or, the press doesn’t want you to know the sort of people who would have remembered him, and they don’t want you to know what he was doing.

A Democrat I know voted for him because Obama was completely out of the mainstream of politics — could “think outside of the box”! His lack of experience would lead him to new and wonderful solutions for the problems in the USA. I pointed out that I had never had any political experience, either, nor run any big important enterprise. All I ever did was vote. Did that mean I’d make a great president full of wonderful new ideas and solutions? He kinda hemmed and hawed, didn’t answer. Just gave me a sickly smile. It was the dopiest explanation ever for voting (TWICE) for the guy that I’ve ever heard so far... I bet no Freeper ever heard a dumber one than that.