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Home Front: Politix

Barack Obama told ex, 'I make love to men daily, but in the imagination,' letter shows

2023-08-14

A bit more on this story — where to find the infamous letter. And besides, that photo is just precious.

[NYPOST] Former President Barack Obama
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wrote of his own "androgynous" mind and "mak[ing] love to men daily, but in the imagination," according to the redacted portion of a now-notorious 1982 letter, obtained by The Post.

The more than 40-year-old letter to an ex-girlfriend recently resurfaced after Obama biographer David Garrow gave a long and winding interview on the one-time commander-in-chief.

"In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life. You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination," Obama, then 21, wrote to Alex McNear in November 1982.

"My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men. But, in returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency," he added.

The profundity of that statement is truly profound.

McNear, who dated Obama during his year at Occidental College in Los Angeles, later redacted the salacious paragraphs, which the Pulitzer- Prize-winning historian Garrow hunted down and included in his tome, "Rising Star."

The letter is currently owned by Emory University, which doesn’t permit it to be photographed or removed. Instead, Garrow’s friend Harvey Klehr transcribed the paragraphs by hand and sent them to the author.

Posted by:Fred

#9 Keep kicking Barry's ass.

Posted by: Jeremiah Jomosing7109 2023-08-14 21:08

#8 Sexuality as a contingency:

[I was born male and] I choose to accept that contingency.
- Obama

Posted by: mossomo 2023-08-14 13:05

#7 From the princling who denied himself nothing... riiiiiiiiiiiight.

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-08-14 12:05

#6 He only does it for real every other day.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-08-14 11:38

#5 Not surprising at all actually!

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-08-14 11:18

#4 ^ My candidate for Snark of the Day

Posted by: Warthog 2023-08-14 08:48

#3
I guess that also explains why it seemed he was out to screw us, while President .

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-08-14 07:27

#2 ...Like the boyfriends that you find,
In the bathhouse of your mind...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-14 06:54

#1 Evidently, he has a very active imagination.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-08-14 06:09

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