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It's striking how little we know about his life, highly unusual for a president, but not surprising given the way the media has protected him. I'm sure if we had known the whole truth about Obama he would have never gotten elected.
Yep and the same for Bush.
Drug use?
Details about his guard service.
Past girl friends, Skull and Bones details, How he got in the guard past the waiting line, etc.
Apparently his "Auto" biography is only "Inspired by" his own life and only based on possible actual events.From ' Dreams from My Father'
"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 rememberingnobody asks why Jews remember the Holocaust, I think I saidand she said thats different, and I said it wasnt, 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 couldnt be black, she said. She would if she could, but she couldnt. She could only be herself, and wasnt that enough."
Obama:
That was not her, he said. That was an example of compression I was very sensitive in my book not to write about my girlfriends, partly out of respect for them. So that was a consideration. I thought that [the anecdote involving the reaction of a white girlfriend to the angry black play] was a useful theme to make about sort of the interactions that I had in the relationships with white girlfriends. And so, that occupies, what, two paragraphs in the book? My attitude was it would be dishonest for me not to touch on that at all so that was an example of sort of editorially how do I figure that out?"
Jeez... is there anything about this man that is "real"?
Oh well. Goes with pretty much everything we do know about this man being nothing more than slogans, smoke and mirrors with no substance.
A fictionalized 'autobiography.'
May 3, 2012, 3:09 pm
Julia Becomes Vehicle for Obamas Messaging
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Nearly 20 years ago, a multimillion-dollar ad campaign created a fictional couple Harry and Louise to dramatize the dangers of President Bill Clintons health care reforms.
Now, President Obama is trying to use the same Madison Avenue-style technique to demonstrate how his policies would be better for women than would Mitt Romneys.
Mr. Obamas campaign has invented Julia, a fictional woman whose life is chronicled in a slick infographic published on the campaigns Web site on Thursday. Visitors to the site can watch as Julia grows up, receiving benefits from the presidents policies along the way.
At age 3, Julia is enrolled in Head Start programs, thanks to Mr. Obama. By 22, shes covered by her parents health care because of Mr. Obamas health reforms. At 42, shes getting a small-business loan from the government. When she reaches 67, shes retired and drawing Social Security benefits.
But if the campaign hoped to put a personal face on the presidents accomplishments, it has also managed to provoke a fury among conservatives, who took to Twitter to mock Julia and to condemn the implication that the fictional young woman should be dependent on government policies throughout her life.
Within moments of being posted online, the #Julia hashtag began trending on Twitter. The bulk of the comments came from people who expressed outrage the depiction of Julias life, like the conservative pundit Michelle Malkin:
Michelle Malkin
@michellemalkin
Hi @BarackObama. I will read Life of #Julia to my kids to show them how NOT to live their lives -- tethered to Nanny State.
3 May 12
One person posted:
TipOfTheSpear @CHOWSTL
While in college, #Julia cannot drive her Volt b/c BHO has eliminated all coal fired electrical plants.
3 May 12
Shelli Roberts @WVShelli
Under President Romney 3yr old #Julia can afford to choose to stay home with her mommy because her daddy has a good job.
3 May 12
The graphic titled The Life of Julia includes criticism of Mr. Romneys positions. At each stage of life, the slide show suggests that Julia would be worse off if Mr. Romney were in charge.
Under the Romney/Ryan budget, interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to double, affecting Julia and 7.4 million other students, the graphic says when Julia turns 25.
Mr. Obamas advisers are clearly hoping that the idea of Julia will capture the publics imagination the way the Harry and Louise ads did two decades ago. The story of the fictional couple worrying about their health care helped crystallize opposition to Mr. Clintons proposals.
Kara Carscaden, a spokeswoman for Mr. Obama, said Julia shows women the clear contrast between the Presidents and Mitt Romneys visions. She said the graphic will help voters understand those differences.
This week, Mitt Romney said that when people ask him what hell do for the economy, he would look at what the Presidents done, and do the opposite, Ms. Carscaden said. Now, voters can see exactly what Romney means and the impact that would have on women.
Its not clear that Mr. Obamas effort will have as much effect. In 1993 and 1994, the health insurance group that broadcast the Harry and Louise ads spent millions of dollars to run them on television. So far, Julia lives only on an Internet page.
And Julia could backfire on Mr. Obama if voters get the impression that the president has to invent characters who are benefiting from his policies because he cant find real people to portray the situation.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Romney assailed the Julia graphic as evidence that Mr. Obamas policies had failed women.
Each night, too many women go to sleep wondering if they can pay the mortgage, if they can afford to put food on the table, and if their children will have a job after graduating from college, said Amanda Henneberg, the spokeswoman. They deserve a president who will focus on getting America back on track.
Mr. Obamas supporters on Twitter praised the idea, calling it a creative way to explain the impact of the policy debate in Washington.
But those posts on Twitter were largely overwhelmed by the sarcastic ones from Mr. Obamas critics:
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It's striking how little we know about his life, highly unusual for a president, but not surprising given the way the media has protected him. I'm sure if we had known the whole truth about Obama he would have never gotten elected.
Yep and the same for Bush.
Drug use?
Details about his guard service.
Past girl friends, Skull and Bones details, How he got in the guard past the waiting line, etc.
Oh, scoff. Nobody cares anymore! He is soooo a lifetime ago.
I love how many on the right think that becuase we don't go around yelling that Obma is set out to destroy america that we worship the guy.
Sheesh those with limited this or that thought processes gripe my ass.
It is a wonder with brains like that we ever got down out of the trees.
Tree good ground bad.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVX-c07uefc&feature=related]Obama Voters - YouTube[/ame]I love how many on the right think that becuase we don't go around yelling that Obma is set out to destroy america that we worship the guy.
Sheesh those with limited this or that thought processes gripe my ass.
It is a wonder with brains like that we ever got down out of the trees.
Tree good ground bad.
Probably. And next up, his brother (2016).
It's striking how little we know about his life, highly unusual for a president, but not surprising given the way the media has protected him. I'm sure if we had known the whole truth about Obama he would have never gotten elected.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVX-c07uefc&feature=related]Obama Voters - YouTube[/ame]I love how many on the right think that becuase we don't go around yelling that Obma is set out to destroy america that we worship the guy.
Sheesh those with limited this or that thought processes gripe my ass.
It is a wonder with brains like that we ever got down out of the trees.
Tree good ground bad.
This is what tells us the left worships him.
They can stop first. Then I will. I do it also because it DOES piss them off that these are their politcal allies. Unfortunately, not enough people understand issues and vote on pure emotionalism and 'what're you gonna give me'? selfishness.[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVX-c07uefc&feature=related"]Obama Voters - YouTube[/ame]I love how many on the right think that becuase we don't go around yelling that Obma is set out to destroy america that we worship the guy.
Sheesh those with limited this or that thought processes gripe my ass.
It is a wonder with brains like that we ever got down out of the trees.
Tree good ground bad.
This is what tells us the left worships him.
Theres crazy partisans on both sides. Stop painting with such a large brush. We need to pick sides on individual ISSUES, not party lines.
Tim Stanley at The Telegraph wrote an interesting piece on this subject.
Why it matters that Obama dated a composite and ate a dog Telegraph Blogs
He sums up his article with this:
Why didnt we know all these details four years ago even though some of them were published in a best-selling autobiography that was sold to us as if it was a fifth gospel? And yet we knew everything there was to know about Sarah Palin, despite the fact that she was in the race for a much shorter space of time than Obama and only running for veep.
Thats the significance of the canine and composite revelations both of them, aside from their delightful dish factors, not really revelations at all. That we are only discussing them this late into Obamas career suggests that the vetting that should have happened four years ago was unforgivably neglected. But, hey, its never too late to start.
If you are honest with yourself, it's hard to disagree with his observations no matter where you fall politically.
It's striking how little we know about his life, highly unusual for a president, but not surprising given the way the media has protected him. I'm sure if we had known the whole truth about Obama he would have never gotten elected.
Nonsense.
The media didnt tattle on FDRs polio. THAT was a BIG protection.
As far as knowing Obamas girlfriends? Really? Who was Ronald Reagans prom date?
IF the media knew...WE would know.It's striking how little we know about his life, highly unusual for a president, but not surprising given the way the media has protected him. I'm sure if we had known the whole truth about Obama he would have never gotten elected.
Nonsense.
The media didnt tattle on FDRs polio. THAT was a BIG protection.
As far as knowing Obamas girlfriends? Really? Who was Ronald Reagans prom date?
Who the hell writes TWO books about themselves before they ever accomplished anything in their life..?
the mans a fraud and so are his books
You guys have such a hard on for Obama.
oh grow up..
From ' Dreams from My Father'
"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."
Obama:
“That was not her,” he said. “That was an example of compression I was very sensitive in my book not to write about my girlfriends, partly out of respect for them. So that was a consideration. I thought that [the anecdote involving the reaction of a white girlfriend to the angry black play] was a useful theme to make about sort of the interactions that I had in the relationships with white girlfriends. And so, that occupies, what, two paragraphs in the book? My attitude was it would be dishonest for me not to touch on that at all … so that was an example of sort of editorially how do I figure that out?”"
Jeez... is there anything about this man that is "real"?
Who the hell writes TWO books about themselves before they ever accomplished anything in their life..?
the mans a fraud and so are his books
Malignant Narcissists as Obama.
In effect? LYING about himself and his roots to make himself something he isn't and never was.Who the hell writes TWO books about themselves before they ever accomplished anything in their life..?
the mans a fraud and so are his books
Malignant Narcissists as Obama.
He got to be a 1%er by suckering a lot of people to buy his made up tales...
what a hoot..