Was Barack Obama the first gay US president?
According to an interview with Tablet magazine, Obama biographer David Garrow discussed a letter Obama wrote to a former college girlfriend in which he "repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men."
"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 told the outlet, discussing the 1,472-page biography of the former president titled "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama."
The letters made their way to Emory University, where Garrow associate Harvey Klehr manually transcribed the salacious details.
"So I emailed Harvey, said, 'Go to the Emory archives.' He's spent his whole life at Emory, but they won't let him take pictures," said Garrow. "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."
Meanwhile, rumors abound that Michelle may satisfy Barry's alleged proclivities.
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RIP Joan Rivers.
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â Madeleine Case Tweetsđ (@McCannCaseTweet) August 1, 2023
Obama was gay and Michelle is a man according to her
Michelle is a transgender âŠ
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As for the rest of the interview, American Greatness's Lloyd Billingsley has the following;
"Whatever you do. Donât ask him about his father.â
That was Bob Bauer, lawyer for President Obama, to biographer David Garrow as he prepared to interview the president for the Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, released in 2017.
âBarack Obama devoted dozens of hours to reading the first ten chapters of this manuscript,â Garrow says on page 1084, and had âremaining disagreements â some strong indeed â with multiple characterizations and interpretationsâ in the book. Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has some rather strong disagreements with Obama.
âIâve always thought that the whole Obamacare thing was, in large part, a fraud.â And as for Obama, âheâs not normalâas in not a normal politician or a normal human being.â
That was Garrow to David Samuels in a rambling August 2 Tablet interview headlined âThe Obama Factor.â Barack Obama is the author of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, published in 1995. Here is what Garrow said about it in Rising Star:
âDreams from My Father was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction. It featured many true-to-life figures and a bevy of accurately described events that indeed had occurred, but it employed the techniques and literary license of a novel, and its most important composite character was the narrator himself.â
âHe wants people to believe his story,â Garrow told Samuels. âFor me to conclude that Dreams from My Father was historical fictionâoh God, did that infuriate him.â Samuels, who also writes for Harpers, the Atlantic and New York Times Magazine, countered that âthe pose of being a writer is actually one that he prefers in many ways to being a politician.â
âOh God, yes. Yes, yes, yes,â said Garrow, âHe doesnât want the writerliness challenged. Itâs my story and Iâm sticking to it. The book [Dreams] is so fictionalized.â
In the Dreams novel, the father is the Kenyan Barack Obama, a student at the University of Hawaii. The Kenyan âbequeaths his nameâ to the American, and by the end of the novel, he becomes a nameless âold man.â
In all his written communications from 1958-1964, housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, the Kenyan Barack Obama makes not a single mention of an American wife and son. Perhaps that is why President Obama never accessed the archive.
The Dreams author, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, devotes more than 2,000 words to a happy-drunk black poet known only as âFrank.â In Rising Star, Garrow identifies âFrankâ as Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist pornographer.
Paul Kengorâs The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis â The Untold Story of Barack Obamaâs Mentor, revealed âremarkable similaritiesâ between the politics of the Dreams author and Davis, a Stalinist who dedicated most of his life to the all-white dictatorship of the Soviet Union. Davis also bears strong physical resemblance to the Dreams author, who at Occidental College penned a poem to a black poet he calls âPop.â
The rising star would âforcefully reject the Davis hypothesis,â Garrow wrote, and âDavisâ Communist background plus his kinky exploits made him politically radioactive.â That is why Barry needed the âhistorical fictionâ of Dreams from My Father, the story about the Kenyan foreign student. Garrow called out the book as fictional, but came up a bit short on the authorâs plagiarism.
In Dreams, the author visits Kenya and the account bears remarkable similarities to I Dreamed of Africa, published in 1991, and the 1994Â African Nights. Both books are the work of Italian writer Kuki Gallmann, a longtime resident of Kenya.
In African Nights, Gallmann and company âcamped in the area of Narok, one of the main centers of the proud Maasai tribe.â In Dreams from My Father, the American travels to Narok, âa small trading town where we stopped for gas and lunch.â
In I Dreamed of Africa and African Nights, the reader finds âthe ink-black of Arap Langatâ and âthe ink-black darknessâ where fish are approaching. Under a slate sky lies the âink-black turmoil of the ocean.â Dreams of My Father speaks of âink-black stairwellsâ and âtall ink-black Luos and short brown Kikuyus.â In Kenya, men âdive into inky-black waters.â And so on, with many other passages too similar to be accidental.
Back in 2008, David Samuels re-read Dreams from My Father and came upon the passage where Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro, takes Barry into the back yard and teaches him to fight.
âWait a minute, I know this scene,â Samuels told Garrow. âAnd then I went back and found the battle royal scene in The Invisible Man.
âEach of us was issued a pair of boxing gloves and ushered out into the big mirrored hall,â Ralph Ellison wrote. âA glove smacked against my head. . . Blows pounded me from all sides while I struck out as best I could.â
In Dreams, Barry has a tussle with a boy down the road. The next day, Lolo âhad two pairs of boxing gloves,â and they lace them up. âKeep your hands up,â Lolo tells Barry. âYou want to keep moving but always stay low. Donât give them a target.â And so forth.
âRight, right, right,â says Garrow, who also noted that Dreams âcompletely omits women. Iâve always thought that thereâd eventually be a feminist critique of Obama because his mother and all the girlfriendsâtheyâre not there. They donât exist.â
As Garrow reveals, the Dreams author wrote to Alex McNear, his girlfriend at Occidental College, âabout how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.â Samuels is more curious about the composite characterâs actions in office, for example, the Iran deal.
âI do find the Iran deal offensive and puzzling,â Garrow said. âI mean, itâs an explicitly antisemitic state.â As Samuels notes, Obama is âfixated on Iran after the Iran deal failed.â The easy explanation is that âJoe Biden is not running that part of his administration. Obama is. He doesnât even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already inside the White House.â
True to form, as Fred Fleitz explains, Biden is planning to evade Congress with a âsecret nuclear deal with Iran.â Â The composite character president was also fixated on normalizing relations with Cuba, a Communist state.
âI also found the Cuba thing deeply puzzling and offensive,â Garrow said. âItâs a fucking dictatorship that imprisons all sorts of truly progressive, creative people.â Many of the regimeâs political prisoners are black but in the style of Frank, Obama is basically uncritical of the regimeâs all-white Stalinist dictatorship. But then, as David Garrow says, the composite character is not a normal politician or human being.
In one of his first actions, Obama canceled missile defense for U.S. allies Poland and the Czech Republic, and Garrow laments his âfailure to object to Russia taking Crimea and the Donbas.â
âFor Barack, everything has to be a success,â Garrow explained. âEverything has to be a victory.â And on his own terms, Obama may be the most successful president ever. He transformed the nation into a place where the outgoing president picks his successor and deploys the FBI and DOJ to help Hillary Clinton and harm candidate and President Donald Trump.
âFrom the first time I saw it,â Garrow said, âI realized that Christopher Steeleâs shit was just complete crap. It was bad corporate intelligence, even. It was nonsensical.â Samuels is also concerned.
âA new milieu had been created consisting of party operatives, the people in the FBI and the CIA who are carrying out White House policy, and the press,â Samuels explains. âThatâs something people still seem loathe to admit, even to themselves, in part because it puts them in a state of dissonance with this new kind of controlled consensus that the press maintains, which is obviously garbage. But if you question it, youâre some kind of nut.âÂ
The interview keeps returning to Dreams from My Father, which biographer David Garrow exposed as a novel, infuriating the president.Â
âThere was something about this fictional character that he created actually becoming president,â contends Samuels, âthat helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now.â The nation has been transformed into a âGilded Age oligarchyâ by Obama, the âMagic Negro of the billionaire industrial complex.â
See the full interview for more insight on the man David Garrow says is not a normal politician or normal human being.