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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Who's the Real Barack Obama? Things Are Finally Becoming Clearer
[PJ] Who is Barack Obama? You’d think a guy who’s penned three memoirs and is the subject of several authorized and unauthorized biographies would be an open book, but he isn’t, as most sentient Americans know. But now we’re learning more.

A recent story in Tablet Magazine by David Samuels, which includes an interview with one of Obama’s biographers, David J. Garrow, gives us some clues about America’s first half-black, half-white president and why he has meticulously hidden details of his life from the American people.

Basically, Barack Obama fantasized about gay sex and was a social-climbing, wanna-be billionaire who loathed his real-life story. Obama carefully refashioned a new character named Barack Obama into a carefully curated creature whose reputation the real Obama and his acolytes continue to tend with the scrupulousness of a bonsai master.

Many of these things have been whispered about the man since he came onto the American political scene. Those who said it out loud were largely dismissed. And, as Garrow acknowledges, an incurious media didn’t want to be that guy who asked too many questions because they’d be called racist.

Only one person ever bothered to look up the love of Obama’s life, Sheila Miyoshi Jager. They were together for years and lived together. "I mean," Garrow told Samuels, "one would think that there’d be a journalist in America who would go look at the student directory in the University of Chicago Library in 2008." Garrow jokes, "Yeah, we’re looking for the Black guy’s white girlfriend." Samuels adds, "I mean, why go through all that trouble to be labeled a racist and lose your job?"

Garrow tracked down Jager, whom Obama asked to marry twice. She claims to have dumped him over the issue of the cavalier statements from an anti-Semitic friend. Jager’s dad’s parents were members of the Dutch Resistance and hid a Jewish child for three years during the Holocaust.

If Obama speaks of Jager at all, which he barely did in his first big book, "Dreams From My Father," a book labeled "historical fiction" by Garrow—"Oh God, did that infuriate him"—it is Obama who dumped her. When Garrow spent eight hours interviewing Obama, the only off-limits topic was his father.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2023 03:31 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama mentor, the late Frank Marshall Davis to the white courtesy phone please. Mr. Frank Davis.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2023 3:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Seemed pretty clear to me. He was that guy throwing three-card monte in the park, but in a nicer suit.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/12/2023 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  The back story stuff has made Olympic broadcasts a nogo zone for me. The worst is when you invest 10 minutes learning about the personality of an athlete that ends up placing 10th.

Politicians are even less interesting to me. The only part of the Obama backstory that is notable is the stuff that the media conspires to hide. It looks like he has sex with dudes. I don’t want particulars, but the efforts made by media to bury that info prior to his and during his eight years are pertinent. If he is an Epstein client, then he needs jail time, and we need to know if the government and media conspired to prevent us from knowing. I don’t need or want to know if his cook was the pitcher or the catcher or even if he was messing with the daughters. If his circumstances on death are suspect, that is different.

A politician’s record is what is important and Obama’s horrifyingly bad record should have ended in 2017, but it has not. As the Biden project is disassembled over the next six months or so, we will begin to know for sure how Obama set this up and executed policy more damaging than even his first eight years put together. How the government and media have conspired to facilitate the puppet show is pertinent.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/12/2023 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  girlfriend?

It did occur to me the other day. We have Eisenhower youth football pics, but this is, put somewhat directly, an empty canvas?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/12/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  "Who's the Real Barack Obama?"

Barry Soetoro

Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 08/12/2023 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Former President Barack Obama wrote of his own “androgynous” mind and “mak[ing] love to men daily, but in my 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.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/12/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  "John Brennan employee cauterized Obama passport data? State Department Inspector General’s report released July 2008, Contract employee of Brennan’s firm, The Analysis Corp."
"the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file" -
https://citizenwells.substack.com/p/john-brennan-employee-cauterized

"Passport files include an applicant’s name, gender, social security number, date and place of birth, and passport number. Additional information may include birth certificates, naturalization certificates, or oaths of allegiance for U.S. born persons who adopted the citizenship of a foreign country as minors."

"State Department employee, Lieutenant Quarles Harris, Jr. who had the passport access, apparently was the guy who penetrated the database and scrubbed the records. Harris was killed – April 18th, 2008. Yes, Lieutenant Harris decided to cooperate with the FBI who were investigating the break-in. Soon after his cooperation became a matter of record, his body was discovered in his parked car; he had been shot twice in the head, likely a “suicide”.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/10/biden-corruption-context-and-the-lightbringer/#more-249780
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/12/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Doesn't matter. He's a puppet. A front man. He looks good in a suit and sounds good reading from a teleprompter. Along with his willingness to do the bidding of the people who put him in the White House, those are his only qualifications. The real question is: Who are those people?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/12/2023 14:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Ref #7: Yes, Analysis Corp. employees at State Dept. passport office knew the deal. They were Brennan's men, as was Soetoro. You didn't go romping around Pakiland for 3 weeks with a college chum without some solid backstopping. Soetoro was well groomed and had a long family history of shadowy activities going back to his grandfathers unfortunate service in the British during Kenyan Mau Mau unpleasantness. The whole Obama tribe was under close British monitoring for decades. Barry was a prime candidate for clandestine recruitment. Deception and betrayal coursed through his viens.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2023 15:06 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2023 15:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Obama Biographer Drops Some Fascinating Info, Including Letter Obama Wrote About 'Sex With Men Fantasies'

All 'hearsay'.
Not 'heresy'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/12/2023 16:22 Comments || Top||

#12  I agree with Obiden when he was asked about Obama he said "well, he has a good vpice and he smells OK"
I think i remembered that right.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 08/12/2023 20:19 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Rep. Greg Steube Files Articles Of Impeachment Against Joe Biden
Al I can say is about DAMN time.
[DailyCaller] Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden on Friday.

The Daily Caller obtained the resolution, which lists Bribery, Extortion, Obstruction of justice, Fraud and Financial involvement in drugs & prostitution as reasons to impeach Biden.

“It’s long past time to impeach Joe Biden,” Steube said in a statement after introducing the resolution. “He has undermined the integrity of his office, brought disrepute on the Presidency, betrayed his trust as President, and acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice at the expense of America’s citizens. The evidence continues to mount by the day – the Biden Crime Family has personally profited off Joe’s government positions through bribery, threats, and fraud. Joe Biden must not be allowed to continue to sit in the White House, selling out our country.”

In late June, The U.S. House of Representatives voted to delay efforts to impeach Biden. The vote was 219-208.

In May, Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced articles of impeachment against Biden during a press conference.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/12/2023 12:30 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Steube forgot treason.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/12/2023 14:40 Comments || Top||

#2  it's pointless at this stage though. Too many scared sheep to vote yes.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/12/2023 14:55 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as the House Republicans do a thorough inquiry where we publicly get all the information into our domain, I am on board with this. The pressure on McCarthy to do something will build now until his tacit preference for symbolic actions becomes untenable. I would like to also see the next steps taken with respect to Mayorkas, Wray Garland and Monaco. Either hold them in contempt and/or turn in criminal referrals for the ones that lied to Congress.
If only Biden is targeted for accountability, they will just call him senile and swap in the Kamala puppet with all the same policies. I would like to see an accountability slow grind on the whole administration until we drive them from the field and hear the laminations of their they/thems.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/12/2023 14:58 Comments || Top||

#4  If the bar is to only be half as bad as Boehner or Ryan, that's still way too bad.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/12/2023 15:13 Comments || Top||

#5  What will be the next counter strike against the current Republican front runner???
Posted by: Jeremiah Jomosing7109 || 08/12/2023 16:33 Comments || Top||


Special counsel Robert Hur trying to interview Biden in classified docs probe
[NYPOST] Federal Sherlocks are negotiating ground rules for an interview of President Biden as part of their months-long inquiry into his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Special counsel Robert Hur’s
...no relation to Ben...
office and attorneys for the president have been in talks for the last month about a potential sit-down, signaling the eight-month investigation may be nearing its end, NBC News reported Friday.

Bob Bauer, the president’s personal attorney, and White House front man Ian Sams did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Hur’s office declined to comment.

Biden, 80, retained an unknown number of classified documents from his days as vice president and a US senator, some of which were kept in the garage at his Wilmington, Del., mansion and handed over to federal authorities in January.
Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Watch out for that side agreement where any Biden is absolved for any crimes they may have committed in the past or will commit in the future.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 08/12/2023 1:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The Biden Crime Family 'head legal fixer' has it all under control. Could have been one of 10,000 beltway lawyers, it had to be David Weiss. You did catch the slight odor, right ?

Washington CNN — "Attorney General Merrick Garland did not provide a robust explanation on Friday for why he needed to give US attorney David Weiss special counsel status for the Hunter Biden probe, or why it was necessary five years after the investigation began."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2023 3:17 Comments || Top||

#3  They can talk to him, but their kids have to stroke his leg hair.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/12/2023 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  You did catch the slight odor, right ?

Yes. I think we've all caught a whiff of it.

Weiss appointment as Hunter Biden special counsel violates DOJ regulations, experts warn
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/12/2023 14:26 Comments || Top||


Bernie Sanders funneled $200K in campaign cash to wife and stepson's nonprofit institute, records reveal
More on this story from a few days ago.
[FOXNEWS] Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
quietly funneled $200,000 from his campaign's coffers to his wife's nonprofit institute, which appears to do very little work and pays six figures' worth of compensation to her son, Fox News Digital has found.

The independent senator's committee cut two $100,000 checks to the Sanders Institute for reported charitable contributions in January and March, its Federal Election Commission records show. The expenditures are the largest from the Sanders campaign to any entity this election cycle.

The senator's wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, and stepson, David Driscoll, co-established the Sanders Institute in 2017 to act as a think tank to promote progressive voices, The Washington Post wrote at its launch.

"The purpose is to revitalize democracy in the support of progressive institutions," Jane Sanders told the Post. "Our feeling is at our point in time, our country is at a crossroads, and people are engaged in a political process that can be opaque."
Posted by: Fred || 08/12/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does this sonny boy also pay the Big Commissar's bills and taxes?
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 08/12/2023 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Unlike the BCF, he was denied US Intelligence community money laundering venues. It was the best he could do.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/12/2023 3:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The socialist citizens that backed Bernie as an alternative to Joe Biden ended up buying his wife an expensive handbag and his son a car. Feel the Bern.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/12/2023 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  "In Capitalism the rich become powerful, in Socialism the powerful become rich"
Posted by: magpie || 08/12/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Bernie, here's the latest installment on our payment to you NOT to run against Joe next year.
Posted by: Tom || 08/12/2023 13:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Report: Katie Hobbs Asked Twitter to Censor Users Criticizing Her Trump ‘Neo-Nazi' Post Uncovered by Breitbart
[Breitbart] Abortion Mouse doesn't like criticism
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) reportedly reached out to Twitter in 2020 to censor users who criticized her 2017 posts uncovered by Breitbart News, in which she claimed former President Donald Trump had a "neo-nazi base."

Days after the 2020 election, Breitbart News reported that Hobbs said Trump had a "neo-nazi base" while she was serving as a Democrat state senator in 2017. Hobbs’ tweet appeared to be a reaction to the false narrative that Trump praised neo-nazi rioters in Charlottesville.

".@realDonaldTrump has made it abundantly clear he’s more interested in pandering to his neo-nazi base than being @POTUS for all Americans," Hobbs posted at the time.

"The President is on the side of the freaking Nazis. Don’t just say stuff — DO SOMETHING," she added.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/12/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scratch a 'liberal' and often find a tyrant.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/12/2023 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  A sensitive tyrant who demands that we not criticize her as she suppresses us.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/12/2023 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  And yet she keeps winning elections.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/12/2023 9:07 Comments || Top||

#4  And yet she keeps winning elections.

Almost like it is fixed or something
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/12/2023 9:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Maricopa Republicans are Democrats in truth
Posted by: Frank G || 08/12/2023 9:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Hmmm, sounds like that maverick GOP [sic] senator who served about 30 years.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/12/2023 10:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Dems and establishment Republicans are not the same. They serve entirely different special interests against the good of the people. Both tribes have such a deep enmity that they can only cooperate against us in cases where the opportunity to screw us over is exceptional like J6, immigration policy and whenever they are negotiating a budget.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/12/2023 11:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Scratch a liberal and wound a fascist is a common hard left phrase.

Wonder why people are adopting it. Unless they're hard left wearing a false moustache.
Posted by: Otto Gurly-Brown9938 || 08/12/2023 11:17 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ False flag
Posted by: Frank G || 08/12/2023 11:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Puts on best Groucho Marx:

So what you're saying is a Liberal is too far right for the leftists.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/12/2023 15:45 Comments || Top||

#11  ^^ I'd say so. I think Bill Clinton would have difficulties dealing with that mob. And JFK? HA, forget it!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/12/2023 21:47 Comments || Top||



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