Showing posts with label Dreams From My Father. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dreams From My Father. Show all posts

Monday, May 14, 2012

Ann Althouse and the ghosts that haunt Barack Obama's writing...

Ann Althouse did a post today on the use of the term ghosts in Dreams of My Father.  It is interesting.

She also suggests that perhaps the influence of Maxine Hong Kingston might be in play.  In Southern China, Caucasians are referred to as gwai los 鬼佬 , or ghost people in a derogatory way.  And the context ghosts in Dreams of My Father is different.

Atlhough the Obama campaign is now calling Romney a vampire (not exactly a ghost, but of the undead).

Update:  Sex adverse succubus!  

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Barack Obama's New York girlfriend in Dreams From My Father is a composite...

Genevieve Cook is not the "girlfriend" in Dreams...
But is that Al Pacino next to her?  

She looks like Sandra Fluke...only less beefy
Barack Obama's New York girlfriend is a composite of several girlfriends....
It is all good.  Especially this comment in the Politico story:

Dogs Against Being Eaten By ObamaSimilarly, the dog he ate was a composite too. It wasn’t one dog, it was an amalgam of many breeds, like casserole.
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Yes, like a casserole, or like a hot dog is an amalgam of many things!

Update:
Darleen at Protein Wisdom has more!
Why does it matter that Obama dated a composite and ate a dog...

Update II:
The Other McCain:  Who did Bill Ayers use as a model for Obama's New York Girlfriend...
The so-called “New York girlfriend” in Obama’s memoir bears specific resemblance to Ayers’s ex-girlfriend Diana Oughton, one of three Weather Underground members killed in 1970 when a bomb the terrorist group was building accidentally exploded.