It looks like his skinny arms - he's wearing the ring, but he's got a neck like a plucked chicken.
Posted on 05/02/2012 12:18:02 PM PDT by Nachum
It only took nearly six years for the media to begin vetting President Obama’s past.
Today, Vanity Fair released an excerpt from a new biography of Barack Obama by David Maraniss. The excerpt discusses Barack Obama's first love affair, with a white Australian woman named Genevieve Cook. It's a telling examination of who Obama was as a young man -- and it shows a self-absorbed "internationalist" with delusions of grandeur.
Photo credit Vanity Fair.
The book itself sounds like an ode to Obama. Maraniss writes, “At age 20, Obama was a man of the world … He could not be of one place, rooted and provincial.” No, says Maraniss, this was a broadminded young man who “knew the ways of different cultures better than he knew himself.”
When he first moved to New York, he was in the midst of an affair with Alexandra McNear, a girl from Occidental. They exchanged a series of purple letters with one another – turgid missives from overfevered young minds. Here, for example, is tendentious Obama explaining poetry to his young girlfriend:
I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time. Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets,
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Does anyone believe those are Obama’s letters? Wouldn’t he repeatedly say, “I” instead of “you?”
Personally, I don’t care to think much about Barry’s sex life, because whoever or whatever he’s done it with, he probably puts mirrors up to watch himself in the throes of pleasure.
I think Sohale Siddiqi calls himself Hal Siddiqi and last heard of, was working for a theatre selling tickets in Seattle.
I’ve seen that look on a number of black guys with white girlfriends, and he certainly considered himself black at that time. It’s a look that says, “I own this.”
Interesting tree-lines. Up until today I never doubted that the image of zero sitting on what looks like the region of Bow Bridge with the lake and the Plaza Hotel in the background was real...they needed him in various poses to create one that was just right to insert between the Dunhams on the bench.
What you can’t be certain of now is, does that head belong to the body and the jacket? Maybe only the jacket is real...
Ask yourself, if that image of big headed zero was real, and it was him to start with, why tamper with it? Just to give us something to focus on?
Interesting wiki link you posted upthread. Looks like she has the right connections, married a muslim - they moved to Cairo where he studied further, wonder how the ‘arab spring’ is working out for her. Muslim brotherhood, sharia, multiple wives etc...nothing a fellow muzzie wouldn’t do for a ‘brother’ to further the cause.
It looks like his skinny arms - he's wearing the ring, but he's got a neck like a plucked chicken.
Holy CR@P, grey_whiskers!!! Here I am stuck late at my shop, and I took a quick break to inhale a sandwich... I’m stuck with nothing but my wife’s diet Dr.Pepper with which to wash it down... (I normally refer to that stuff as diet carbonated prune juice!) I have a just taken a big drink when I scroll down see a giant little Asian soldier in uniform, standing between hobbits. A new keyboard is in order at this point...
The father of McCarthy’s target was Henry Harris Jessup
Strong connections to Beirut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Harris_Jessup
Full Disclosure: I once recall hearing that the Soviet Unio had one of their main battle tanks designed such that the gunner had to be five foot tall or shorter (or somesuch)...and consequently had manpower problems supplying enough gunners.
Methinks they should get together with the Norks and swing a deal.
Cheers!
I have a confession: I saw that here on FR; if I recall correctly, that was actually a *North Korean* photoshop of one of their soldiers being escorted by a couple of ROK troops. They photoshopped him to hide the NK-malnutrition-induced lack of growth among NK soldiers.
Full Disclosure: I once recall hearing that the Soviet Union had one of their main battle tanks designed such that the gunner had to be five foot tall or shorter (or somesuch)...and consequently had manpower problems supplying enough gunners.
Methinks they should get together with the Norks and swing a deal.
Cheers!
Ayers returned to school to study early childhood education at Bank Street College of Education and received his master’s degree in 1984. Staying on there, he worked as an instructor while working on a doctorate in curriculum and teaching, which he completed in 1987...
The bride, who will be known as Mrs. Moustafa-Cook, graduated from the Emma Willard School and Swarthmore College, and received a master's degree in education from the Bank Street College of Education.
something isnt adding up..besides the obvious..
The Stepfather of Mystery Woman was quite influential.
He even has a moot court competition named after him.
“An international law moot court competition, the Philip C. Jessup Cup, is named in Jessup’s honor. It is held annually in Washington D.C. and is attended by law students from around the world”
He acted as a character witness for Alger Hiss. In 2001 NY Times said it was quite likely that Hiss was a Soviet Agent.
This is more than just a simple girlfriend...
recruiting Obama
cover for Obama even back then..
I have no idea but the mystery is even more mysterious..
Cook’s mother wrote
“Court Arts of Indonesia “
Also several books on Cambodia
Strong connections to Beirut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Harris_Jessup
Now that doesn’t surprise me:
Henry Harris Jessup (1832–1910) was an American Presbyterian missionary, author, and a founder of the American University of Beirut.[1]
And it won’t surprise you either, will it, David?
Oops, I meant Character Witness for Hiss was the FATHER of Cook’s stepfather.
Like everything else in the myth, the truth is obscured with fabrications, inventions, a snippet of fact here and there, etc.
Pictures of Jessup and Lois
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