Obama’s Biographer Makes Shocking Statement About the Ex-President

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A 16,000-plus word interview with former President Obama’s award-winning biographer has raised eyebrows for an assortment of reasons, ranging from his renewed allegation that Obama’s first memoir was fictionalized and the observation he’s as “insecure” as political rival Donald Trump.

Tablet’s Q&A with David Garrow, the author of “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama”, a long biography published in 2017 has shocked social networks. The claims made by the book about Obama have been widely circulated. He is still a popular member of the Democratic Party and one of its most influential figures.

Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Obama’s longtime girlfriend in the 1980s was the subject of the article. Sheila Miyoshi Jager allegedly claimed that the relationship ended because “he would not condemn antisemitism.” The tablet revealed Obama’s book had a very different account of their breakup. He said that his White girlfriend didn’t agree with him about his “Black racial consciousness”.

“Whose version of the story is correct? Who knows. The bridge between the two accounts is Obama’s emerging attachment to Blackness, which required him to fall in love with and marry a Black woman. In Obama’s account, his attachment to Blackness is truthful and noble. In Jager’s account, his claims are instrumental and selfish; he grants particularism to the experience and suffering of his own tribe while denying it to others,” Tablet’s David Samuels wrote in the preamble that also put a spotlight on “Obama’s hostility to American exceptionalism.”

Samuels moved on to the Q&A with Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., And Bearing the Cross”. Samuels’ interview with the biographer stunned many readers. Social media has been flooded with a variety of allegations.

Here is a list of some of the most interesting facts:

Not Normal

Garrow recalled that Obama’s attorney had told him not to ask about Obama’s father.

Garrow later referred to Obama as “a creature from another planet”, in reference to Michelle Obama who was raised in a loving family.

Letters To An Old Girlfriend

“With Alex [McNear, Obama’s girlfriend at Occidental College], I think she wanted to have her role known. So when Alex showed me the letters from Barack, she redacted one paragraph in one of them and just said, ‘It’s about homosexuality,’” Garrow said before explaining that a man named Harvey Klehr was tasked with going through the letters, which are at Emory.

“He’s spent his whole life at Emory, but they won’t let him take pictures. So Harvey has to sit there with a pencil and copy out the graph where Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men,” Garrow said.

Garrow Feels Obama’s “Dream From My Father” Was Fabricated

He wants people to believe his story. Garrow stated that Garrow was furious after he concluded “Dreams from My Father was historical fiction. ”

Garrow continued: “It’s so inaccurate.”

Garrow claimed that he spent eight hours with Obama during three private meetings when he served as president. Garrow mocked Obama, saying the things he told him were “hilariously insignificant”, such as his boasting about being fluently Indonesian at a young age.

Garrow used the exact same accusation of “historical fiction” in “Rising Star. ”

Brent Staples wrote in his review of “Rising Star” that “Obama,” “further accused him of fabricating a racial conflict which never happened and retrofitting his early life to conform to it.”

Samuels Has Questions About Obama’s Current Role

“He lives in a large brick mansion in Kalorama. Doesn’t it strike you as weird that he’s an ex-president, he’s comparatively young, and he’s living in the center of Washington, D.C.? The original excuse was that Sasha had to finish school. Then you could say, ‘Well, the opposition to Trump needs a figure to rally around.’ But now Sasha has graduated from USC, Trump is gone, Joe Biden was elected present, but he’s still there,” he said.

Samuels replied, “I’m not a writer because I don’t have the expertise.” “There are over a thousand journalists working in Washington, yet there are no security stakeouts outside Obama’s house to tell us who is arriving and departing. ”

Obama Is ‘Just As Insecure As Trump’

Garrow said this was the most important thing he learned.

He added, “But it comes back to the fact ‘Dreams’ is a fictional piece. He is forced to create a story because he doesn’t have one. “I know that each time he says, “Oh, I spent years researching the history of civil rights, I’m sure he’s read BTC, but I doubt much else.” This is someone… who’s 98 percent fiction and not historical. ”

Obama Would Be ‘Too Lazy’ For A Spot On The Supreme Court

Garrow claims that he once said, “I’m fundamentally lazy because I’m from Hawaii.” This is very close to what he said.

Obsession With Celebrities

“I always thought it was strange that [Barack Obama and Michelle Obama] wanted to hang out with celebrities. They would not have been interested in hanging out with celebrities if they had lived up to 2000. Garrow said that it never would have occurred to him to go to Beyonce, Jay-Z, or Richard Branson.

“Black people in Chicago, Jerry Wright, Hermene Hartman, and all the other residents of Chicago, are not at all surprised that Barack has become someone else. “But they can’t explain why Michelle has changed into someone else. ”

Samuels stated: “He’s happy to speak on NPR about Marilynne Robertson books, meanings, or anything else to make wine mothers relate to him in order to get one over them.” “You can’t expect Samuels to go to hospital if cancer is present.” “He’ll be on a boat with other winners.”

A comment from the office of Barack Obama or Michelle Obama was not immediately returned.

Charles C. W. Cooke of the National Review called it “an extraordinary interview”.

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