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Category Archives: Barack Obama
The Barack Obama Show
Barack Obama (b. 1961) speaks in two registers and slides between them at will. One is the seminar room. He qualifies, he weighs, he sets up the other side’s argument before he answers it. The other is the pulpit. He … Continue reading →
The Delicious Feuds of Rising Star
The quarrel that erupted around David Garrow’s (b. 1953) Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama was never a quarrel about a long book. It became a contest over what presidential biography is for, what elite writers owe the myths … Continue reading →
What are the biggest revelations in the new book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House?
Grok says: The book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, released on April 1, 2025, offers an in-depth look at the 2024 U.S. presidential election, focusing on the campaigns of Joe … Continue reading →
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Will Barack & Michelle Obama divorce soon?
Grok says: The rumors kicked into high gear recently due to Michelle’s absence from notable events like Jimmy Carter’s funeral and Donald Trump’s inauguration in early 2025, while Barack attended solo. His courtside appearance at an NBA game in Los … Continue reading →
Rumblings About Barack and Michelle Obama Divorce (and Jennifer Aniston) Getting Louder
Daily Mail today: Inside former VP Kamala Harris marriage turmoil as Doug Emhoff’s scandals are blamed for losing presidency Kamala Harris was all smiles and affection for her ‘beloved’ second gentleman Doug Emhoff in the immediate aftermath of her crushing … Continue reading →
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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 →
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 →
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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