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Meet the First Obama Girlfriend
breitbart ^ | 5/2/12 | Ben Shapiro

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 ...


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To: philman_36; Fred Nerks; LucyT; RummyChick
Philip Caryl Jessup, Jr.
his grandmother was Mary Hay STOTESBURY b: 1 JUL 1866 d: 17 JUL 1950
321 posted on 05/03/2012 7:37:03 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: thouworm; Fred Nerks; All

Thanks! What a treasure of information! From your last hotlink I see that “ - - -Obama’s New York roommate, Sohale Siddiqi, - - - “ would be an interesting guy for Joel Pollack, Editor for Breitbart Inc., to interview.

Fred Nerks notes that Siddai was in Seattle last he knew.

Do you know if Siddai, like Obama, was a foreign student at California’s Occidential College also?


322 posted on 05/03/2012 7:44:18 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Graewoulf

“Do you know if Siddiqi , like Obama, was a foreign student at California’s Occidential College also?”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“When Obama arrived in New York, he already knew Siddiqi - a friend of Chandoo’s and Hamid’s from Karachi who had visited Los Angeles. Looking back, Siddiqi acknowledges that he and Obama were an odd couple.

“His memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” talks about this time, but not in great detail; Siddiqi, for example, is identified only as “Sadik” - “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party.”

“Obama’s campaign wouldn’t identify “Sadik,” but The Associated Press located him in Seattle, where he raises money for a community theater.”

“Some explained that they feared inadvertently hurting Obama’s campaign. Among his friends were Siddiqi and two other Pakistanis, all of them from Karachi; several of those interviewed said the Pakistanis were reluctant to talk for fear of stoking rumors that Obama is a Muslim.”

“As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis.”

“Obama had an international circle of friends - “a real eclectic sort of group,” says Vinai Thummalapally, who himself came from Hyderabad, India.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2365625/posts?page=302#302


323 posted on 05/03/2012 8:04:46 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: RummyChick
father of Mary Hay (Stotesbury) Jessup was first cousin of Edward.
Arthur Stotesbury (~1755-1839)     
m. Mary Moore (-1856)     
    Richard George Stotesbury (1812-1883)              
    m. (Nov 29, 1832) Mary Ann Turley (-1901)         
        James M. Stotesbury (~1841-~1913)      
        m. Lucy Hay Butler (1866-)     
            Mary Hay Stotesbury (1866-1950)     
            m. (Oct 15, 1889) Henry Wynans Jessup (1864-1934)     
                Henry Herbert Jessup (1891-)     
                Theodore Carrington Jessup (1892-)     
                m. (Mar 24, 1927) Caroline Margaret Starr      
                John Butler Jessup (1894-)     
                m. (Jun 11, 1921) Marion Hall Zinderstein (1896-1980)     
                Philip Caryl Jessup (1897-1986)     
                m. (Jul 23, 1921) Lois Walcott Kellogg (1898-1986)     
                    Philip Caryl Jessup, Jr. (1926-)        
                    m. Dorothy K. (1930-)         
                    m. Helen Ibbitson (1933-)      
                Richard S. Jessup (1907-1990)         
    Thomas Pritchett Stotesbury (1823-1888)     
    m. (Jun 8, 1843) Martha Parker (1823-1889)     
        Edward Townsend Stotesbury (1849-1938)  
        m. (Apr 2, 1873) Frances Berman Butcher (1850-1881)     
            Helen Lewis Stotesbury (1874-1874)       
            Edith Lewis Stotesbury (1877-1935)        
            m. (Dec 25, 1903) Sydney Emlen Hutchinson      
            Frances Butcher Stotesbury (1881-1950)       
            m. (Jan 5, 1909) John Kearsley Mitchell         
        m. (Jan 18, 1912) Eva Roberts (1864-1946)     

324 posted on 05/03/2012 8:07:04 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Graewoulf

Meant also to comment on:

“Obama’s New York roommate, Sohale Siddiqi, - - - “ would be an interesting guy for Joel Pollack, Editor for Breitbart Inc., to interview.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Highly unlikely he will talk. I suspect he has many “incentives” (carrot/stick incentives) not to talk. This just about sums up all that is known about him. To my knowledge he has never given an interview, other than what was reported in the 2008/2009 time period.

http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sohale_Siddiqi


325 posted on 05/03/2012 8:19:08 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: thouworm; Fred Nerks; All

I am speculating that Obama belonged to a Marxist sleeper cell in his childhood.

That would account for Obama’s arrogant hatred of America, and ALL of his policy decisions.

The lack of ANY personal documents that ARE NOT FORGED, or missing, is consistent with Obama having a highly skilled, secretive and well-financed staff.

The check writers were probably wealthy men with a Marxist view of the World.

Your post brings up the possibility that Obama’s “lost years” were spent in Karachi, in a well-financed Marxist sleeper cell.


326 posted on 05/03/2012 8:24:59 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: RummyChick; Fred Nerks

“You can find all kinds of things on the family but the girl is a ghost on the net...scrubbed away...”

Scrubbed away? In advance of the book, no doubt.

The brother, Alexander Ibbitson Cook...could find nothing.

The sister, Francesca Munro Cook—— perhaps this (all I could find):

Brussels, Belgium
Francesca Munro Cook
is on Facebook.

Activities and Interests
Other
CNN, UNIS ALUMNI, The Contemporary Jewelry Design Group, L’Anglophone, OECD, Hugo Kauder Society, Barack Obama, KLM Sweden, Feast Projects

https://www.facebook.com/people/Francesca-Munro-Cook/576950892
~~~~~~~~~~~

UNIS alumni——

United Nations International School???

Independent, international K-12 school founded by parent employees of the UN in New York.

http://www.unis.org/


327 posted on 05/03/2012 8:31:02 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: thouworm
did you notice her friend Ted Jessup?


328 posted on 05/03/2012 8:37:54 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: thouworm

Alexander Ibbitson Cook born Dec. 21, 1966 married Kathy Louise Valko (born 26 Aug 1961) on July 29, 1991 in Maine.

lived in Pittsburg,PA, Leeds,MA, Middletown,CT & Washington,DC

May 14, 2005:
Wilford D. Lindsey, 82, of North Versailles, died Friday, May 13, 2005, at UPMC McKeesport. He was born Feb. 20, 1923, in East Pittsburgh to the late LaVerne H. and Anna Talder Lindsey and also was predeceased by his first wife, Dale J. Wojciak Lindsey, and two sisters. Mr. Lindsey World War II Marine Corps veteran and a retired diesel mechanic. He is survived by his wife, Helen C. Ballaban Lindsey; daughter, Deborah L. (Paul) Evers, of Bloomfield; son, Howard L. (Rae) Lindsey, of New York; stepdaughters, Christine Smith, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Elaine V. Taiclet, of Pittsburgh, and Kathy Valko (Alexander Cook), of New York; stepson, Andrew J. (Tracey) Valko, of Bridgeville; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren, and sisters, Bernice Ballough and Gloria Kramer. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the FORGIE-SNYDER FUNERAL HOME, 1032 Broadway, East McKeesport, where services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the funeral home> Interment will follow in Grandview Cemetery, North Versailles.


329 posted on 05/03/2012 8:49:07 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: RummyChick

there are those who say it looks like Ndg...I think it's Ng and could also stand for 'new generation' - there is a school by that name but the establishment year is too recent... Notre Dame deJamour was a boy's school until many years later iirc. Result: inconclusive.

330 posted on 05/03/2012 8:54:09 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: philman_36

It IS a very very small world...I’m going to send you a freepmail.


331 posted on 05/03/2012 9:05:34 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Brown Deer

“did you notice her friend Ted Jessup?”

hmm... Jessup. Is he a FB friend? I refuse to join FB, so cannot see friends.


332 posted on 05/03/2012 9:10:10 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: Graewoulf

Siddiqi, according to zero, wasn’t a student, HE WAS A ‘ROOM-MATE’.

A ‘Hal Siddiqi’ was supposedly connected to a thearte in Seattle, I traced him to the Fifth Avenue Theatre, but his name has been removed, and all that remains is this:

http://www.5thavenue.org/about


333 posted on 05/03/2012 9:37:41 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: thouworm; Brown Deer
good link, that's what I remember,

...Siddiqi was not a student and made his living working in restaurants. Together they lived in a drug-ridden slum apartment on 339 East 94th St. [2] Siddiqi got the apartment by lying, saying he had a well paid job. The apartment was furnished by what they could find in the streets...

I guess they gave him a job at the theatre in Seattle, where Mary's daughter, an actress could keep an eye on him?

334 posted on 05/03/2012 9:44:08 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Fred Nerks, you and a myriad of other GREAT Freepers make FREE REPUBLIC the very best internet site for those of us that love America! Your response time to my questions is blinding!

Thank you for all you do on FR, and thanks for posting the results of your re-searching the data available at this time.

__________

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm - - - - - . Now I understand why “Happy Hal” did not know anything about Obama’s gal pal!


335 posted on 05/03/2012 9:49:51 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: mo

Yeah, that’s the picture. Thanks for the links.


336 posted on 05/03/2012 11:19:49 PM PDT by HoneysuckleTN (Where the woodbine twineth... || FUBO! OMG! ABO!)
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To: RummyChick

Millennium of Glory

It was in 1997 that Helen Ibbitson Jessup began exploring the possibility of setting up a foundation to aid the Cambodian government and the National Museum of Phnom Penh in preserving the art and architecture of the Cambodian people. She gave an interview to ArtsZone at the time, as curator of the most complete survey of Cambodian art ever gathered in a museum. Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory was on view in Washington, DC at the National Gallery of Art, in September 1997. It later moved onto the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art....

http://andybrouwer.co.uk/fkc.html


337 posted on 05/04/2012 12:47:29 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: RummyChick

your link, http://www.peacekey.com/1-1-a/UN_Web/1_UN_Book/The_Fearful_Master_09.htm

excerpt:

... But the record is unmistakably clear and speaks for itself. As the 1954 report of the SISS revealed, Alger Hiss was “unofficially” influential in the employment of 494 persons by the United Nations on its initial staff.24

During the Korean War, a New York grand jury accidentally stumbled across evidence of Communist penetration into the American staff of the United Nations. One piece of evidence led to another and so alarmed the grand jury that it proceeded to conduct a full-scale inquiry into the matter. The publicity attracted a great deal of attention and prompted the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to initiate a parallel investigation of its own. Shortly after these investigations began, some two hundred Americans employed by the UN resigned, apparently to avoid testifying.25 Those that did testify, however, provided more than ample evidence for the grand jury to issue the following presentment:

This jury must, as a duty to the people of the United States, advise the court that startling evidence has disclosed infiltration into the UN of an overwhelmingly large group of disloyal U.S. citizens, many of whom are closely associated with the international Communist movement. This group numbers scores of individuals, most of whom have long records of federal employment,, and at the same time have been connected with persons and organizations subversive to this country. Their positions at the time we subpoenaed them were ones of trust and responsibility in the UN Secretariat and in its specialized agencies.26

The Senate investigations produced exactly the same conclusions. Senator Eastland, chairman of the committee, made the following statement at the conclusion of the hearings:

I am appalled at the extensive evidence indicating that there is today in the UN among the American employees there, the greatest concentration of Communists that this Committee has ever encountered. Those American officials who have been called represent a substantial percentage of the people who are representing us in the UN. . . . These people occupy high positions. They have very high salaries and almost all of these people have, in the past, been employees in the U.S. government in high and sensitive positions. I believe that the evidence shows that the security officers of our government knew, or at least had reason to know, that these people have been Communists for many years. In fact, some of these people have been the subject of charges before Congress before and during their employment with the UN. It is more than strange that such a condition existed in the government of the U.S., and it is certainly more than strange that these people should be transferred to the UN and charged to the American quota.27 [Italics added.]

It takes the better part of a day to read through the transcript of the hearings that led up to that conclusion, but for those who have the time, it is well worth the effort. There is no better way to get an accurate perspective on how the Communists have secretly captured complete working control of the American staff positions within the United Nations. The following are just a few examples taken at random to give an idea of the scope of this control...


338 posted on 05/04/2012 1:05:21 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: RummyChick

It’s a rather poor translation, but you’ll get the drift, the school only accepted girls from 1975:

http://www.ndj.edu.lb/

“The College of Our Lady of Jamhour was founded by the Jesuits of the Province of the Near East. Opened in October 1953, he succeeded to the Secondary College of St. Joseph University in Beirut in 1875 installed. The secondary college is the successor to the Ghazir opened in 1849, with the seminary founded in 1844. Since 1975, the College receives only external, boys and GIRLS”


339 posted on 05/04/2012 4:43:48 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

The picture with the woman is showing a different guy’s body (hence the white hand) with odumbo’s head photoshopped on (hence the enormous cranium).


340 posted on 05/04/2012 5:16:53 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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