Category Archives: Barack Obama

Barack Obama is likely the next president of Harvard

Helen Andrews writes: Barack Obama…doesn’t need to be paranoid about shoring up his internal power base. His power base is external and untouchable. He doesn’t need to protect an army of loyalists; everyone at Harvard is an Obama loyalist by … Continue reading

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Tablet: The Obama Factor: A Q&A with historian David Garrow

David Samuels begins with an anecdote from David Garrow’s Obama biography Rising Star, the only book I’ve read about the former president: At the time that Obama and Sheila visited the Spertus Institute, Chicago politics was being roiled by a … Continue reading

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Jack Cashill: Why I chose to tackle Obama’s sexuality

Jack writes: Late one night about a year ago, I received a call from the mysterious Charles Johnson. Mother Jones calls Johnson, “Twitter’s most infamous right-wing troll.” Whatever. Johnson knows stuff, much of it true. He asked me whether I … Continue reading

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NYP: ‘Obama ex gushed about ‘all this f—ing’’

New York Post: Before he was the 44th POTUS and Michelle’s husband, Barack Obama was a regular sex machine — so good that a gal pal wrote poems about their lovemaking, a new biography claims. “B. That’s for you. F’s … Continue reading

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WP: ‘Before Michelle, Barack Obama asked another woman to marry him. Then politics got in the way.’

Carlos Lozada packs a punch. He’s the most important book critic of our time and he’s neither left nor right. Washington Post: Garrow portrays Obama as a man who ruthlessly compartmentalized his existence; who believed early on that he was … Continue reading

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