The fictional memoir
Obama admits to writing fiction... how long will it be before he admits to NOT writing it?
One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called 'New York girlfriend.' Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail. But Obama has now told biographer David Maraniss that the 'New York girlfriend' was actually a composite character, based off of multiple girlfriends he had both in New York City and in Chicago.The only real question here is if, by "multiple", he meant "imaginary", or if by "girlfriends", he actually meant "boyfriends".
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> The only real question here is if, by "multiple", he meant "imaginary", or if by "girlfriends", he actually meant "boyfriends".
Here you see an AWCA at work, folks. Do not attempt this at home. :)
LMFAO. Yeah, I expect him to come out in his second term. Gonna be interesting. I imagine young male "interrogators" dressed up in Mango colored thongs, and every "camp" gate the words, "Freedom through Sodomy", done up in Mauve. It's going to be a glorious new day.
If anything, his sense of destiny deepened.
Not a good sign.
Did these girlfriends live in Canada, perhaps?
It's going to be a glorious new day.
You mean a fabulous new day.
So it's not Bill Ayers' girlfriends?
"One night I took her to see a new play by a black playwright. It was a very angry play, but very funny. Typical black American humor. The audience was mostly black, and everybody was laughing and clapping and hollering like they were in church.
After the play was over, my friend started talking about why black people were so angry all the time. I said it was a matter of remembering—nobody asks why Jews remember the Holocaust, I think I said—and she said that’s different, and I said it wasn’t, and she said that anger was just a dead end.
We had a big fight, right in front of the theater. When we got back to the car she started crying. She couldn’t be black, she said. She would if she could, but she couldn’t. She could only be herself, and wasn’t that enough. I stared into her eyes, knowing it was over, and my heart broke at her expression: she looked so much like a young Freddie Mercury."
Fine, the last sentence is mine. But it is the least fabricated in the whole passage. The only thing possibly true about this "compressed" (his term, not mine) memory is that once, he might have gone to a play.
So the romance part of Dreams of my father was cribbed from the plot of Weird Science? Composite girlfriend = Kelly LeBrock/Vanessa Angel apparently.
he certainly seems to have at least two dark triad traits
But in a larger sense, in terms of his ambitions beyond family, he did not want to be constricted by narrow choices. The different path he saw for himself was to rise above the divisions of culture and society, politics and economics, and embrace something larger—embrace it all.
Josh
he certainly seems to have at least two dark triad traits
going to the theater and imaginary girlfriends?
I think you are thinking of two sides of a pink triangle.
President O on the down low?
" going to the theater and imaginary girlfriends?I think you are thinking of two sides of a pink triangle."
no.
narcissism and machiavellianism
"The only real question here is if, by "multiple", he meant "imaginary", or if by "girlfriends", he actually meant "boyfriends".
By "he" you mean Bill Ayers right?
Maybe Bernadine didn't like "The Wiz".
Note to self: time to write an autobiography
I never realized it could be fictional.
I can finally tell the world how Xena and I slit 100 barbarian throats then made violent and slippery love in the warm pool of their slowly congealing blood.
Josh
No. narcissism and machiavellianism
But aren't those traits supposed to be used to get women, not make them up out of a series of fancy "compression" exercises?
Obama's using dark triad all wrong if he's using to avoid girls.
"One night I took him to see a new play by a gay playwright. It was a very campy play, but very funny. Typical queer humor. The audience was mostly wearing vinyl, and everybody was prancing and skipping and buggering like they were in a disco.
After the play was over, my friend started talking about why gay people were so horny all the time. I said it was a matter of their tight pants causing groinal rubbing—nobody asks why blacks remember Trayvon, I think I said—and he said that’s different, and I said it wasn’t, and he said that gay sex was just a dead end.
But then, suddenly, we had a big hump, right in front of the theater. When we got back to the car he started crying. He couldn’t be gay, he said. He would if he could, but he couldn’t. He could only be his own self, and wasn’t that enough. I stared into his eyes, knowing it was over, and my weiner throbbed at his expression: he looked so much like a young Burt Reynolds."
@Daniel,
OMG. Oh my sweet Lord. I almost squirted when I read the Freddie Mercury line.
Thank you, sir. Thank you!
Perhaps the bard needed a beard?
Vidad, you are sick, man, but you are funny.
So Obummer is queer. I didn't know that. I'm not a Romney fan, but I'd rather have a regular guy there than some unpredictable fag. Sheesh, talk about Queer Nation.
My ass he had multiple, if any, girlfriends. They're about as real as all those Canadian girlfriends I claimed as a young boy when I'd get back from our annual Florida vacation.
JD Curtis:
NFL's never 'off-topic' here. And yes, Seau is dead. Suicide, gunshot wound to the chest.
Vidad,
That was some funny stuff there, pard.
Pa Kur, either way the boxers or briefs question is out.
You can say this about both then. It's not so much they don't put their pants on the same way we do, but it's what they're hiding that is creepy.
I'd think if Obama was gay he'd use it to make some serious political hay. Not only is he the first black president he'd be the first openly gay president too.
That's gotta be worth a lot of leftist street cred.
Girlfriends are overrated anyways.
In this brave, Feminist, strong, independent, educated world, think more along the lines of "conjugale visits at home" which are kind of like "imaginary girlfriends."
You've come along way, baby. Now you need to leave, as South Park is on again.
"I'd think if Obama was gay he'd use it to make some serious political hay. Not only is he the first black president he'd be the first openly gay president too.
That's gotta be worth a lot of leftist street cred."
Not a chance, despite what the PC crowd preaches there are too many in this country that still find it offensive and that includes many in the PC crowd though they won't admit it.
"Not a chance, despite what the PC crowd preaches there are too many in this country that still find it offensive and that includes many in the PC crowd though they won't admit it."
Also, his wife would do unpleasant things to him.
@Jeigh Di:
You mean like sleep with him?
No, he didn't write fiction, he admitted at the beginning of the book that some of the characters were composites, meaning more than one person condensed into a single character. So no, didn't write fiction, and fully disclosed what he was doing. The only fiction being written about President Obama is what Tea Baggers like to make up about him, which is just about everything. This is what happens when you take your news leads from Drudge.
From Politico:
UPDATE: In the reissue of "Dreams from My Father," Obama writes in the introduction that "some of the characters that appear are composites of people I’ve known."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this blog post stated that Obama had acknowledged using composite characters in the reissue. In fact, Obama acknowledged the use of composite characters in the first edition of the book.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/obama-ny-girlfriend-was-composite-character-122272.html
> No, he didn't write fiction, he admitted at the beginning of the book that some of the characters were composites, meaning more than one person condensed into a single character.
I see someone needs to consult a dictionary concerning the definition of fiction.
But you are technically correct, in that he wasn't the done who wrote it.
> So no, didn't write fiction, and fully disclosed what he was doing.
Admitting that what was written was fictional doesn't make it non-fictional.
Admitting that what was written was fictional doesn't make it non-fictional.
"Fake but accurate" in 3, 2, 1...
Why does anyone believe these puppets write anything?
GhostWriters/Intelligence assets.
@Vidad
Bravo. But leave Burt out of this. He was a bad ass, and running back in college for my 'Noles.
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