PAPER: Obama’s grandfather tortured by the British? A fantasy (like most of the President’s own memoir)

A new biography of Barack Obama has established that his grandfather was not, as is related in the President’s own memoir, detained by the British in Kenya and found that claims that he was tortured were a fabrication.

‘Barack Obama: The Story’ by David Maraniss catalogues dozens of instances in which Obama deviated significantly from the truth in his book ‘Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance’. The [...]

‘He couldn’t dunk, wore his hat cocked to look cool and danced like Mick Jagger’: Explosive book reveals Obama’s not-so-presidential past

He had a pet ape named Tata, spent his evenings smoking pot and when he was in the third-grade wrote a paper about how he wanted to be President.

Biographer David Maraniss’s explosive book on the life of Barack Obama reveals a young President when he was just known as ‘Barry’.

The book, Barack Obama: The Story, will be on bookstores June 19, but leaked snippets reveal his sordid pot-smoking past, string of relationships [...]

Father’s death made Obama realise he could do more with his life than smoke pot, Michelle tells Jon Stewart

Michelle Obama has revealed how her husband the President gave up drugs at a young age because he realised he ‘could do more with his life’.

The First Lady spoke about Barack Obama during an appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to promote her new cookbook.

She was asked by host Jon Stewart yesterday about recent claims the President’s high school and college years.

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A new book reveals how a teen Obama and his friends formed a group called The Choom Gang – slang for smoking marijuana – where he invented inhaling techniques and rode a car called The Choomwagon

A new book that delves into Barack Obama’s teenage years gives fresh insight into the president’s marijuana-smoking days as a high school student in the 1970s.

It reveals how a teen Obama and his friends formed The Choom Gang – slang for smoking marijuana – in which he invented inhaling techniques and rode a car called the Choomwagon.

In the book, Barack Obama: The Story, biographer David Maraniss calls the future president ‘Barry’ and reveals he ‘was [...]

BOOK: Obama thanked his drug dealer, not his mom, on high-school yearbook page

Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss’ Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles. He inhaled. A lot.

Read full article: http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama

MEDIA RACES TO DEFEND

Breitbart.com, as part of its continuing quest to bring you the stories the mainstream media refuses to report on, or else has already reported on but without the requisite paranoid hysteria, has a breathtakingnew blockbuster exclusive: Barack Obama’s literary agent created a promotional booklet in 1991 that described him as having been “born in Kenya.”

The Drudge Report is hyping the Birther Shock angle. Breitbart is careful to tiptoe around it. The story [...]

OBAMA: ‘New York girlfriend’ was composite

One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama’s 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.

But Obama has now told biographer David Maraniss that the ‘New York girlfriend’ was actually a composite character, based off of multiple girlfriends he had both in New [...]

ASKS: ‘Why black people so angry all the time’

When Barack Obama met Genevieve Cook in 1983 at a Christmas party in New York’s East Village, it was the start of his most serious romance yet. But as the 22-year-old Columbia grad began to shape his future, he was also struggling with his identity: American or international? Black or white? Drawing on conversations with both Cook and the president, David Maraniss, in an adaptation from his new Obama biography, [...]

OBAMA ADMITS FABRICATING GIRLFRIEND IN MEMOIR

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One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama’s 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.

But Obama has now told biographer David Maraniss that the ‘New York girlfriend’ was actually a composite character, based off of multiple girlfriends he [...]