Comments on: All Obama Really Needed to Know He Learned from His Composites

By: One Slice of Obama’s Lying » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:13:36 +0000

[...] lies. That is a key part of who he is, reflected even in his autobiographical self-construction. Obama is a progressive. That is another key part. The two do not necessarily go [...]

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:27:31 +0000

If the dude’s nuts, he appears to have reason to be so.
Also, he doesn’t ‘look’ like the African/Kenyan Mr. Obama at all, rather he ‘looks’ like that Davis fellow. Not be sure who your Daddy is might make one a little light in the loafers as well?

By: John Presnall

John Presnall — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:01:05 +0000

Ferguson’s piece is an excellent extended joke, and as all good jokes it makes a serious point. Freud (was it?) said there’s no such thing as a joke.

Since you didn’t mention the punchline, let me quote Ferguson (Andrew not Craig)–

“Knowing what we know now—that this intelligent, socially aware, fatherless girl from the South Side didn’t exist, by whatever name—we can only hope that there was some ‘very sweet lady’ at Occidental who actually did flatter Barack Obama in this way, at that moment. If it’s pure invention it reads like a testy exchange between Norman Bates and his mother.”

Awesome!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:52:37 +0000

Sigh. As I’ve mentioned here several times, I don’t believe for one second that Obama wrote “his” books. Nothing in his life story indicates him to be capable of writing what are by most accounts quite accomplished books. The fact that the stories seem to be mostly full of composite characters tell me that he didn’t even work very hard with his ghostwriter, whoever that may be (also, of course, that even he never thought he’d be important enough for anyone to ever bother checking this stuff out).