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[Make sure to order Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
“He’s not normal—as in not a normal politician or a normal human being.”
That was David Garrow, author of the 1460-page Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, in a recent rambling interview with Tablet’s David Samuels headlined, “The Obama Factor.” Barack Obama is the author of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, published in 1995. On page 537 of Rising Star, David Garrow writes:
“Dreams 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.” (emphasis original)
“He wants people to believe his story,” said Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bearing the Cross. “For me to conclude that Dreams from My Father was historical fiction—oh God, did that infuriate him.” Samuels, who writes for Harpers, the Atlantic and New York Times Magazine, countered that “the pose of being a writer is actually one that he prefers in many ways to being a politician.”
“Oh God, yes. Yes, yes, yes,” said Garrow. “He doesn’t want the writerliness challenged. It’s my story and I’m sticking to it. The book [Dreams] is so fictionalized.” And it “completely omits women. I’ve always thought that there’d eventually be a feminist critique of Obama because his mother and all the girlfriends—they’re not there. They don’t exist.”
As Garrow reveals, the Dreams author wrote to Alex McNear, his girlfriend at Occidental College, “about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.” But there’s more to the man who is “not normal,” such as the question of his provenance.
Garrow’s go-between with president Obama was lawyer Bob Bauer. “Whatever you do,” Bauer counseled Garrow. “Don’t ask him about his father.” In the Dreams novel, the father is the Kenyan Barack Obama, a student at the University of Hawaii. The Kenyan “bequeaths his name” to the American and by the end of the novel he becomes a nameless “old man.”
The Kenyan’s written communications from 1958-1964, housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, make not a single mention of an American wife and son. Perhaps that is why the president formerly known as Barry Soetoro never accessed the archive, also missing from Garrow’s Rising Star.
In Dreams, the author devotes more than 2,000 words to a happy-drunk black poet known only as “Frank.” In Rising Star, Garrow identifies “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist pornographer. On the other hand, Garrow ignores Paul Kengor’s 2012, The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis – The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor, which showed the “remarkable similarities” between the politics of the Dreams author and Davis.
The Communist bears a strong physical resemblance to the author but the rising star would “forcefully reject the Davis hypothesis,” Garrow wrote, and “Davis’ Communist background plus his kinky exploits made him politically radioactive.” That is why Barry needed the “historical fiction” of Dreams from My Father, the story about the Kenyan foreign student.
In Dreams, the author visits Kenya and the account bears remarkable similarities to I Dreamed of Africa, published in 1991, and the 1994 African Nights. Both books are the work of Italian writer Kuki Gallmann, a longtime resident of Kenya.
In African Nights, Gallmann and company “camped in the area of Narok, one of the main centers of the proud Maasai tribe.” In Dreams from My Father, the American travels to Narok, “a small trading town where we stopped for gas and lunch.”
In I Dreamed of Africa and African Nights, the reader finds “the ink-black of Arap Langat” and “the ink-black darkness” where fish are approaching. Under a slate sky lies the “ink-black turmoil of the ocean.” Dreams of My Father speaks of “ink-black stairwells” and “tall ink-black Luos and short brown Kikuyus.” In Kenya, men “dive into inky-black waters.” And so forth, with many other passages too similar to be accidental.
If Garrow picked up on the plagiarism, nothing emerges in Rising Star. 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.
“Wait a minute, I know this scene,” Samuels said. “And then I want back and found the battle royal scene in The Invisible Man.
“Each of us was issued a pair of boxing gloves and ushered out into the big mirrored hall,” Ralph Ellison wrote. “A glove smacked against my head. . . Blows pounded me from all sides while I struck out as best I could.”
In Dreams, Barry has a tussle with a boy down the road. The next day, Lolo “had two pairs of boxing gloves,” and they lace them up. “Keep your hands up,” Lolo tells Barry. “You want to keep moving but always stay low. Don’t give them a target.” And so on.
In Rising Star, Garrow writes that Barry was often seen with a copy of The Invisible Man, and after Samuels pointed out the Ellison passage, Garrow said, “Right, Right, Right.”
Samuels also probed Garrow on what the composite character had done in office. For example, “The Iran deal bothered you?”
“I do find the Iran deal offensive and puzzling,” Garrow said. “I mean, it’s an explicitly antisemitic state. I also found the Cuba thing deeply puzzling and offensive. It’s a fucking dictatorship that imprisons all sorts of truly progressive, creative people.” Many of the Cuban prisoners are black but the former Barry Soetoro is basically uncritical of the Communist regime. But then, the composite character is not a normal politician or human being.
“For Barack, everything has to be a success,” Garrow said. “Everything has to be a victory.” 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.
“From the first time I saw it,” Garrow said, “I realized that Christopher Steele’s shit was just complete crap. It was bad corporate intelligence, even. It was nonsensical.” And Garrow had “always thought that the whole Obamacare thing was, in large part, a fraud.”
Obamacare sought to transform the nation into a place where you get only the care the government wants you to have, as in a totalitarian state. The composite character also showed a fondness for any state opposed to the USA, and disrespect for America’s friends.
In one of his first actions, Obama canceled missile defense for U.S. allies Poland and the Czech Republic, and Garrow laments his “failure to object to Russia taking Crimea and the Donbas.”
Now, as Samuels notes, Obama is “fixated on Iran after the Iran deal failed.” The easy explanation is that “Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration. Obama is. He doesn’t even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already inside the White House.” True to form, as Fred Fleitz explains, Biden is planning to evade Congress with a “secret nuclear deal with Iran.”
With that kind of ongoing clout, no surprise that Obama buys mansions and hangs out with celebrities. Remember, according to David Garrow, he’s not a normal politician or normal human being. The former Barry Soetoro is a “composite character,” and Dreams from My Father is a novel, swaths of it plagiarized. David Samuels finds this deception profoundly troubling.
“There was something about this fictional character that he created actually becoming president that helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now.” That’s the Obama factor, and there’s more to it.
“So how do you talk all this foundation-land, community-organizer shit and then preside over the transformation of the country into a Gilded Age oligarchy?” wonders Samuels. “Maybe I just answered my own question: Obama is the Magic Negro of the billionaire industrial complex. And targeting Jews as outsiders and pushing them outside the circle was the way that the Gilded Age oligarchy consolidated itself in America, back then and also now.”
The last time America was this divided 600,000 Americans died. This time it will be much worse because we will never allow another obama to exist. He does not realize that “Try That in a Small Town” is the absolute truth. FJB and obama.
>>“the pose of being a writer is actually one that he prefers in many ways to being a politician.”
Of course. All narcisissts insist on being seen as towering intellectual figures, not mere servants of the people.
Since when did any politician, but especially biden and obama, ever serve anybody but themselves?
Many politicians have really loved America and Americans–from Washington to Reagan. I do get your point, but there is a difference between someone being egotistical and having a narcissistic personality disorder, which Obama does appear to have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcd41RO25k
Never, never. Check out these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcd41RO25k
#1 the dude says with his own mouth he was born in Kenya. Family and village members there celebrate that one of their’s became an American Prez. Some say he made these remarks merely to manipulate his audience. But he said those words. He confessed to being born in Kenya. His grandmother said she was a witness to his birth in a hospital there. Confessions are evidence.
#2 a group of international, credentialed handwriting and document experts determined what was presented as his Birth Certificate had serious and obvious indications of fraud.
#3 a respected private investigator, Susan, researched the social security number he presented and determined it really was stolen from a dude who lived on the east coast. Obama never traveled to the east coast until much later than his acquisition of that stolen ss number.
The media and others diss this information while asserting the obvious lies about Trump are fact and actionable. America is lost.
He was born in Hawaii but not in a hospital. His father was FMD.
His Paternal Grandmother said she attended his birth . . . . and during her lifetime never left Kenya.
Thanks Lloyd! What can be done, to undo the damage done by such an illegal President.
Yes, What can be done? &Thanks for this scary article that incorporates all Id known and suspected before. It’s terrifying that a person so empty yet with such destructive murderous rage -and for Jews again just like WWII – should be in charge of starting WWIII.
Must we be his target now while the country and world shrugs “ho hum” ?
The entire interview is a must read as it demonstrates that Obama was the first woke president – with devastating consequences
What else can one expect from someone who was . . .
¹ sired by trash (his communist, racist, abandoning dad)
² birthed by trash (his leftist, America-hating mom)
³ mentored by trash (Marshal Davis)
⁴ indoctrinated by trash (Saul Alinsky)
⁵ befriended by trash (Bill Ayers & too many others to name here)
⁶ taught by trash (every bullshit “studies” class he could take)
⁷ married to trash (she’s a grifting bitch, not proud of her country)
⁸ worshipped by trash (reporters can’t slober enough over him)
The lunch-money-victim can’t get hit by a bus soon enough.
1 and 3 are the same person: 3 The immigrant was a beard.
The guy the dude asserts was his father, i.e., Obama senior, was asked to leave Harvard U because of his penchant for getting horizontal with too many airhead dumb blonde students there.
BHO Sr. left Harvard and the U.S. b/c the INS was hours, maybe minutes, away from deporting him for immigration fraud. They found that BHO Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham had never married and had never cohabitated. Sr. returned to Kenya and his Kenyan wife.
Bill Ayers made BHO Jr. into the writer he never was. Frank Marshall Davis, the demonic beast, made him into the homosexual man he always was and remains.
Deception is used to fool people. Politicians seem to rely on this tool more than any other. Not a good attribute in today’s world.
The voters have a deal with the politicians. The voters agree to be lied to and the politicans agree to lie.
Not cool for America that so many voters are closer to zombies than enlightened voters who have read and understood the backgrounds of the candidates. This nation cannot survive under such ignorance.
But, but, his pants had razor sharp creases and his administration was scandal-free. So there’s that.
And they certainly didn’t run thousands of guns to the Mexican cartels!
Yes, it is funny.
Except the part about being scandal free. #1 his wingman (who dutifully ignored a congressional subpoena with little to no repercussions) approved and encouraged selling arms to Mexican Cartels that were inturn involved in the killing of over 500 mexican citizens and also an ICE agent. Also, his support for the beer conference and support of Travon gave clear indication of his corruption.
The worst thing is that he is still president, not the ice cream scarfing senile idiot who’s officially president, who can’t even speak coherently, even WITH a teleprompter and after being briefed on what questions an obliging media will ask.
The mainstream media is still contributing to The Great Narcissist Barack Hussein Obama’s hagiography. If he farted in their faces, Jack Tapper, Joe Scarborough and Christiane Amanpour would claim it smelled like freshly baked brownies and sounded like Ode to Joy.
Excellent points, sir.
Actually, imv, our media has done great harm to our nation. Such lies and exaggerations they perform that one gets better news information from foreign nations. American media is not so much journalism as it is clearly propagandist. Utterly not worthy to read or listen to, imv.
Those people we see on CNN, MSNBC and PBS are no more REAL journalists than the East German news presenters on “Aktuelle Kamera” or Soviet “news” presenters. They call Trump a “liar”, a “fascist” and of course a “RACIST!!!!!” while showing rioting including burning and looting and describe it as “mostly peaceful”. On the rare occasions they simply refused to present the Great Narcissist gaffes and missteps, they claimed Obama was so improbable brilliant that his mouth was unable to keep up with his brain.
Can you tell me why my simple comment is not published here? Isn’t this censoring?
Great article. Thank you.
“Obama the Magic Negro of the billionaire industrial complex.” It doesn’t get better than that. Hat tip to Samuels.
Ultimately, we will probably never know what Marxist think-lab created Barack Obama. But we do know that he will go down in history as the KGB’s greatest success. Obama is a product of decades of shrewd psychological and social planning by the Russians. The Russians (and, yes, even the Chinese) are masters at long range planning. How many more “Obamas” have they
already launched in our direction? Americans will never know because we can’t plan our way out of a paper bag.
Yes, indeed.
When a leading educationalist in China boasted that they have agents in highest levels of our government, little did we realize he was talking about Joe Biden. Bongino is correct when he says Biden is actually an “unregistered foreign agent.” Many have been punished severely for being unregistered.
I think you are giving the Russians and the Chinese too much credit. Nothing Obama has done could have succeeded without the treasonous news media and a bureaucracy full of traitors and criminals.
The “think lab” was the mind of Frank Marshall Davis, communist, pornographer, satanist, and BO’s mentor.
I read the article. It was interesting, revealing, and fun to read. As mentioned here, there was discussion between Garrow and Samuels about Obama’s insistence on maintaining his “writerliness” persona.
It was a glaring omission that they never talked about the extent to which Obama actually earned his writer credentials. Bill Ayers has bragged openly that he was the un-named ghost-writer for Obama’s “Dreams from My Father.”
And I’ve read articles questioning Obama’s authorship which quoted directly from other manuscripts he had submitted for publication. The bad grammar and bad punctuation wouldn’t be found in a short composition by an 8th grader in a good school, much less the editor of the Harvard Law Review.
There’s no denying, a lot of Obama is a fabrication. The only question is how much.
True.
It’s clear indication that the left has worked for years to build their social construct. Axlrod and Jarrett recognized the way he presents and went after him to be their construct. Sadly, our GOP has essentially been worthless, in fact, in some important ways the GOP assisted in their game. Now we see we are beginning to live it.
The $64:000 question Its Global Warming is suppose to be real why is Obama living so close to the Beach?
“Obama is the Magic Negro of the billionaire industrial complex.”
Bullseye.
Another issue to his abnormal persona will forever be his birth place, but it does not matter. Much has been said about his nationality. When he was about six years of age he was legally adopted by Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo, an Indonesian citizen. His mother changed her passport when she married Lolo, she put young Barry Soetoro on her passport. He became an Indonesian citizen. He still is. He returned to Hawaii, but due to ignorance, or laziness he and his grandparents, who were his caretakers, never bothered to renew his US citizenship, which would have been easy to do up to the age of eighteen. After he turned eighteen, it becomes an issue of a formal application for citizenship, and the individual gets in line like all the rest who want to come to the US. That never happened either. This explains why his Occidental records are hidden. He applied as a FOREIGN STUDENT from Indonesia in order to receive full-ride Fulbright scholarships, which are reserved ONLY for foreign students.
Barry Soetoro is the enigma that will forever surprise and amaze. Not necessarily in a good way.
Great points, sir.
His mother grew up on Mercer Island in Washington. Mercer Island is known locally as a place where wealthy reside. NBA star Bill Russell lived there after retirement. She attended the U of W. She was racist in her selection of sleep partners. She left lil Travon with her parents so she could have more freedom to seek adult companionhood. Sadly, the cause of her death was a cancer. A cancer that medicals warn may be caused by certain unadvisable behaviors.
Obama isn’t smart enough to write a book, or speech. Maybe his real father, Davis. wrote it, or possibly Bill Ayers, his terrorist mentor.
Dreams published 1995. Davis was dead by the 80’s. That leaves Ayers.
BO’s not smart enough to be a lawyer either, but he was, allegedly.
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS – OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS – OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS – JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK – OWNED BY GEORGE SOROScorruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (WANTS TO BE OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY GAMER LAWER TONY BLINKEN, GEORGE SOROS RENT BOY,AS WELL AS CON MAN ADAM SHIFF) AND HIS CORRUPTNESS BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON.
BRIAN C JOONDEPH
Obama’s marriage seems like a fraud, in view of his leanings.
It does. Actually, it kind of reminds one of what we heard about Bill and Hill, how they had a child to appear as a normal American family. They were not, of course.
Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry. RIP
The documentary “Dreams of my Real Father” makes the case that Frank Marshall Davis is Barack Obama’s biological father. The assertion is made that Obama’s grandfather was in the CIA, that FMD was one of his contacts, and that he conjured up the arranged marriage with BHO sr., and his daughter to hide the fact that his daughter was impregnated by a black Communist in exchange for a letter for BHO sr. to get into graduate school.
Barack Obama jr., looks like Frank Marshall Davis. One things for certain, Obama definitely shares Frank’s politics.
Barack Obama is the highest ranking enemy agent on the history of espionage. He took over the greatest,
most moral nation the world had ever seen, and proceeded to turn it into a Marxist dictatorship and a police state.
Yes, yes.
But it was allowed by ignorant voters who wanted to help the black fellow because of his skin color only. It’s an illness of faulty perception. He actually grew up in a middle class home and attended a private school most whites cannot afford, attended an ivy league college most whites cannot dream of attending. Such a poor mistreated fellow. Such shallowness to only see skin color in a person. But that is leftism here now.
There may be something fishy about the chef who drowned off Big O’s house. I read something about that but now I can’t find it.
The Clinton chef also died under unusual circumstances. Just remember, there is no truth to the rumor that the Clinton chef committed suicide by falling on his kitchen knife 34 times. I know it’s silly to think that the Clintons and the Obamas are engaged in some kind of Suicide-of-the-peasants thing….but with this bunch…..any damn thing is possible. Even the most outrageous and unthinkable acts that even Vlad the Impaler could dream up.
I’m curious how many people that voted for Obama would do it again? I hold him responsible for stirring up the racial divide in our country, He played the race card every chance he got.
First time I’ve read one of your long articles Lloyd. Subject matter grabbed me. The writing is vrey good, flows uncomplicated, and easy to read.
Most of it new to me so enlightening but not surprising. He seemedd mostly disingenuous to me, too controlled in speech and movements. Don’t like his emotional self-agrandizing in speeches.
I’m ad libbing here, ‘This is the day the earth begins to cool, the oceans retreat, etc.,etc.’
You know the rest, inept foreign policies, snubbing our allies and enriching our enemies. Speaking division int race issues, not peace. He allowed a Caliphate to emerge in Iraq \, unnecessarily destabilized Libya creating a crisis in Syria. Etc., etc. ad naseum.
I’ll stop there. Thx Lloyd and FP
I ‘ve been saying this since 2004 this guy is a lying sack of shit.
larry elder i believe was the only black conservative who had worked out that obama was a race baiting grifter and a lying fraud . victor davis hanson had his number as well . the only other person i can recall who realised what a scammer obama was was daniel pipes from MEF in his sept. 2012 article in the washington times . it was a thorough article , and borne out of in depth research into obamas background and his true history . pipes was criticised at the time for it . it has since been confirmed that he was on the money . obama has gone down in the political history books as the worst president followed closely by carter who will soon be superseded by lying dementia joe . ol joe after being fraudulently elected is just a puppet of obama . everything he says is written by obama and he can’t even read it from a teleprompter .
Obama is the Devil.
How could you insult poor old Satan like that?
I will never understand how America, after having been attacked by Osama, turned around and elected Obama. Is it a Stockholm Syndrome of the unconsciousness?
Borrowing phrases like “ink-black” is not plagiarism. One author writes a good phrase, like “middleaged woman with hair like a gone-to-seed dandelion,” or “cosmetics with enough protein to feed an Ethiopian family for a week,” or “his pants fitted as tightly as though he had been melted and poured into them.” These expressions sink into the mind and other writers use them, even the geatest ones. Authors borrow whole SCENES from each other. Mark Twain got the idea of Hank predicting an eclipse of the sun, in A Connecticutt Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, from H. Rider Haggard, who had Allan Quartermass predict an eclipse of the moon in King Solomon’s Mines
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Hussain is a demon/human hybrid created by Satan and his real job on Earth is as an anti-Christ.