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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
“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.”