Obama biographer David Garrow revealed in a stunning interview this week that former President Barack Hussein Obama once told him that he hoped he, Garrow, never read the letters that he, Obama, had penned to his ex-girlfriend.
“Barack made it clear to me that he hoped I would never read them, I can put it that way. I think if the letters to Sheila ever become public, I think that will be a signal event,” Garrow told Fox News.
“Those letters would detail just how extremely serious and extremely intense a relationship that was and that it continued off and on into his Harvard Law School years,” he added.
How was he this close to Obama? Because while writing the biography “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,” which came out in 2017, he reportedly had several off-the-record conversations with the former president.
Much of the contents of these conversations were finally revealed in a Tablet interview he conducted last week.
“The 16,000-plus word interview featured an assortment of news-making comments, touching on everything from his allegation that Obama’s first memoir was fictionalized to details about fantasies he confessed in a letter to a former girlfriend about having sex with men,” according to Fox News.
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In addition to revealing stunning truth bombs about Obama, Garrow has also cast doubt on the legitimacy of the former president’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” which he claims was mostly fiction.
Dovetailing back to Obama’s relationship with his ex, Sheila Miyoshi Jager, whereas Obama claimed in his memoir that they broke up because he embraced so-called black racial consciousness, Jager says they broke up because of his refusal to condemn an incident of antisemitism.
But also, as Obama grew politically, he realized that having a non-black woman as a wife could cause difficulties.
“The one aspect that I will endorse or that is inescapably true is that by 1988, he knew he wanted to run for public office in Chicago. And he knew… that having a wife like Sheila Jager, half-Dutch, half-Japanese, would not cut it in black Chicago… Having a non-black spouse 25, 35 years ago was an active political problem for a black candidate,” Garrow explained.
Regarding their marriage, Garrow says the two have predictably changed over the years.
“There’s no resemblance between their lives today and who they were 20 years ago. And when I was doing most of my interviewing across black Chicago in like 2010, 2011, 2012, even then, folks could see this sort of ‘desire to hang with celebrities’ theme building in the White House,” he said.
“Some of the folks weren’t surprised that Barack was going that way, but they were really painfully upset that Michelle had seemingly lost her grounding because they viewed her as just the epitome of a hardworking, working-class South Side Chicago Black family. Granted, he’s this, you know, multicultural, multiracial creature from another planet. But they couldn’t fathom that Michelle, you know, no longer was who she was,” he added.
Then there’s Alex McNear, a different ex-gf to whom Obama once penned a stunning letter in which he admitted something wild about his sexuality.
“Alex sold those letters to Emory [University]. Alex had let me read all of the letters except this one paragraph that she redacted and just said, ‘It’s about homosexuality,’” Garrow explained.
“So, I had one of my oldest friends, Harvey Klehr, who has been a professor at Emory his whole life. I had Harvey go to the Emory archives and Harvey copied out the missing paragraph by hand, pencil and paper,” he added.
This missing part was included in the Tablet interview.
“Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men,” Garrow said in the interview.
Despite this being a bombshell, Garrow doesn’t think it’s that big of a deal.
“I’m a historian, not a psychotherapist, but, you know, I’m 70 years old. My sense of the world is that, you know, a large majority of humanity has fantasy lives. So, I don’t find that passage in any way scandalous. It’s sort of representative of humanity,” he said.
What does bother him is the change that occurred in Obama from the time he tried to unseat Rep. Bobby Rush in 2000 to the time he was in office.
“He went from “a skilled Springfield legislator who could reach across the aisle to a hard-boiled partisan who gave Republicans a cold shoulder in office and deepened U.S. political divides,” Fox News notes, citing Garrow’s words.
He also became as insecure as former President Donald Trump.
“He does need to think of himself as victorious, successful. This is perhaps the central aspect of his political personality that people have to appreciate. There’s an inability to accept loss, accept defeat,” Garrow said.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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