Your Monthly 'Dreams From My Father' Scandal Rehash
In the wake of a Vanity Fair piece on President Obama's old girlfriends, Politico has recovered another scandal pulled from the pages of Obama's decades-old autobiography, but much like the Indonesian dog-eating affair, it's a new spin on a piece of info we've known about for a long, long time.
In the wake of a Vanity Fair piece on President Obama's old girlfriends, Politico has recovered another scandal pulled from the pages of Obama's decades-old autobiography, but much like the Indonesian dog-eating affair, it's a new spin on a piece of info we've known about for a long, long time. On Wednesday, Politico's Dylan Byers writes:
... 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 York City and in Chicago ... Though Dreams From My Father is an autobiography, and hence non-fiction, Obama makes no mention of this "compression," nor is their any note by the publisher, Broadway Books. In fact, Obama only acknowledged the "compression" after Maraniss learned that Cook had no recollection of some of the events at which Obama said she was present.
For the sake of compression, some of the characters that appear are composites of people I've known, and some events appear out of precise chronology.