(*)
PLUS:
“Of course, the new husband was a bit of an attention-getter. And there was the problem of his already having a wife back in Kenya, although that’s not mentioned.
“The descriptions of her sitting around having rap sessions with Obama Sr. and the other developing nations students at the U. of Hawaii are exactly like the equivalent passages in John Updike’s 1978 novel The Coup, in which the future dictator of Kush sits around at McCarthy College in Franchise, WI from 1955-1959 shooting the bull with the tiny number of nonwhite students plus his white girlfriend, who he will bigamously marry after a pregnancy scare.
“One of the themes of Obama’s autobiography is his being weirded out by his youngish mom being sexually attracted to dark men. And there’s an undercurrent of Obama being freaked out by the realization that his mother pretty much wrecked her life through her attraction to unreliable Third World men and unreliable Third World countries, but, if she had been more sensible, where would he be? This is the kind of thing that leaves Obama sighing deeply over the tragic conundrums of fate, while less self-absorbed people would have a laugh.”