This week, Tablet released a fascinating conversation with historian David Garrow, author of a massive unauthorized biography of Barack Obama in his early years titled Rising Stars. By all rights, the book should have been a massive hit upon its release in 2017. Instead, it underperformed. The revelations contained therein never hit the mainstream. And that simple fact, in and of itself, demonstrates a simple reality of the modern political era: the entire press apparatus has been dedicated, since at least 2008, to the proposition that Barack Obama had to be protected from all possible damage.
Garrow’s book carried multiple bombshells for Obama. Obama’s first autobiography – the egotist has already written several – Dreams From My Father told a story about how he broke up from a white girlfriend in his Chicago years over her failure to understand his desire for racial solidarity with black America. Actually, as Garrow’s book relates, the couple broke up because Obama refused to disown black anti-Semitism. Furthermore, as the book uncovers, Obama wrote letters to a girlfriend in which he “repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.”
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