Meet the First Obama Girlfriend

breitbart ^ | 5/2/12 | Ben Shapiro

[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,

[Nachum]

The head looks too big for his body in the picture...

[Moose47]

Hey, where’s the BARF warning?

Semper Fi

Cheers...Chris

[God luvs America]

didn’t Maraniss write a book which fawned over Clinton?? I read his biography on Vince Lombardi- “When Pride Still Mattered”...good book but its length would’ve been cut in half, 500+ pages as it was, had he just told the story and left his opinion out of it...

[mojito]

I didn’t think it could be true, but if there is one thing that Zero is worse at than being president, it’s a literary critic.

What a pretentious, condescending little twerp.

[cpdiii]

I suspect he really did not believe what he was writing. However, I must admire him as a very gifted with prose as when it is all part of his “pick up” lines. He was good.

[mojito]

He's a major Clinton-fawner. Those WaPo boys really know how to bend the knee.

[PLD]

Girl friend NO,friend maybe...

Who else here thinks it is strange this person is found before the election..She looks like she could be a Dyke friend..

[Nachum]

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[ColdOne]

I wonder what the internal polling for this was? Had to be something for them to bring this out.

[Jeff Vader]

if true, then I owe the”won” an apology. I was convince he was a “down low” homosexual and the wookie was merely his beard

[JoeDetweiler]

This is how he wrote to his girlfriend?

It reads like something Ignatius Reilly would write to Myrna.....

[txhurl]

‘Turgid’ writing is generally an over-compensation for a ‘flaccid’ mind.

[Cyber Liberty]

Here, for example, is tendentious Obama explaining poetry to his young girlfriend:

... 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.

Yes, I've written many a torrid love letter filled with phrases like that. What a pantload....

[nathanbedford]

Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Wf course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance.

I believe it is Whittaker Chambers who made note of the phenomenon among Communists to despise those we would describe as liberals more than they despise conservatives. His use of the word "reactionaries" is very revealing and all the more revealing in that he expresses the generally held belief among Communists that that attitude can be ascribed to "ignorance. " Hence, the capacity of man to be educated and the perfectibility of man-shibboleths of communist doctrine.

I do not agree with the author, the importance of the article is not in the girlfriends but it his inadvertent revelation of his own communism.

[kjo]

Re: just before the election; no doubt someone in the White House is currently working on forging his college grades...just in case.

Birth certificate, ss card, draft card, all likely forgeries already.

The MSM refuses to dig into this guy’s past...we only get to know about Republicans.

[Uncle Miltie]

[txhurl]

And by the way, what’s the counterpart to ‘jungle fever’? ‘Urban concussion’?

[freedomson]

Truly! LOL

[oyez]

Poetry like that insures a guy numerous solitary Saturday nights.

[WellyP]

They have the same chin. In some parts of the world it is refered to as a “Gemmell” chin, as in the Scottish Gemmell clan.

[cicero2k]

The article in VF closes with this:

In the end, what we find out about Obama is what we already suspected: he was deeply narcissistic, pretentious, and in his own mind, an outsider to America.

How come it took so long for stuff like this to come out?

[Fractal Trader]

Ok, but who’s the first boyfriend? FMD?

[Meet the New Boss]

One point his propagandist Maraniss is trying to convey in his piece is the idea that Obama is not really a far-left guy. The claim is that he “moved beyond” that.

The propagandist even has Obama asking Jerry Kellman in interviewing for his “community organizer” job in Chicago to assure him that it wasn’t a far left organization! LOL.

[piroque]

You really think he had one

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

You are right. 0’s head looks like it was Photoshopped.

[liberalh8ter]

She looks like Sandra Fluke. Bet she's a lesbian friend from his little group of anarchists. In any case we know one thing, we'll find out in a few days that she's not who they're presenting her to be.

[immadashell]

I didn’t think it could be true, but if there is one thing that Zero is worse at than being president, it’s a literary critic.

Considering that Bill Ayers wrote his two "autobiographies" this is no surprise.

[wayoverontheright]

However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time....

Wasn't in a known fact at Columbia in those days that George Eliot was not a HE?

If this were George Bush such ignorance would be deemed evidence of complete imbecility.

Headline: GEORGE W. BUSH THINKS GEORGE ELIOT WAS A MAN!

[TLI]

Here, for example, is tendentious Obama explaining poetry to his young girlfriend:

I wonder if he "explained" this...

http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/does-this-obama-poem-sound-man-boy-gay-to-you/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/politics/18poems.html?_r=1

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[NeoCaveman]

She’s doesn’t appear to guilty.

And to think all this time I thought Barry was probably a Lindsey Graham.

[woofie]

look for those multiple layers in the jpeg

[cicero2k]

Any body else seeing a pattern here:

Bill Clinton - Born to govern. His only vision of the future was centered around becoming president.

Barack Obama - Born to govern, or at least influence and mold others of lesser intelligence.

Republican Presidents (lately) - succeed in business, live the American dream as provided them then decide that they need a permanent legacy.

[Jack Burton007]

“The head looks too big for his body in the picture...”

It does, but it’s amazing how well it fits up his posterior relief hole.

[txhurl]

Her body is nearly a carbon copy of his - just whiter.

[AppyPappy]

She appears to be white white. And she married a Muslim.

[paterfamilias]

It is pseudoacademic onanistic bullcr@p like this that makes me glad I was a science major. He writes as if he had a bad case of constipation.

Reminds me of that line in “Bananas” when Louise Lasser asks Woody Allen if he had read the “I Ching”.

Trying to impress her, Allen replies, “I haven’t read the Ching itself, but I have dabbled in Kirkegaard.”

P.S.: from the photo, she appears to be a 2-bagger.

[CJ Wolf]

So where is she now?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It’s the perspective. The photo was shot from somewhere above — that foreshortens the body, and makes the head appear larger. (That’s not proof that the photo is genuine — but, if it’s a fake, it’s a good one.)

[Darren McCarty]

I thought his first girlfriend was Larry Sinclair in a dress.

[Hot Tabasco]

I must admire him as a very gifted with prose

I prefer to believe he found those statements in Cliffs Notes on the book The Waste Land.........

[CJ Wolf]

So where is she now?

[txhurl]

white meat ping

[netmilsmom]

My daughter works in Photoshop all the time.
She says the light source of BO’s head is different from the source on the girl’s face. Half his face is dark, meaning that the source is from slightly behind his right ear, yet the shadow on her face obscures her features to a much lesser degree on the same side, although they should have the same shadow.

[crusty old prospector]

She will end up being like George Costanza's girlfriend Susan that he drove to lesbianism.

[Romulus]

Dude...

[txhurl]

I thought his first girlfriend was Larry Sinclair in a dress.

.............

And... you aren't too far off!

[liberalh8ter]

I’m not buying any of it. You’d think she would have come forward quite a while ago.

[PLD]

The MSM knows more about Obama than they admit..They know he is a Communist like they are...

[WashingtonSource]

Notice Obama’s white hand, oversized-head. THIS IS PHOTO-SHOPPED! Another complete fabrication from beginning to end.

[PLD]

The MSM knows more about Obama than they admit..They know he is a Communist like they are...