Are these new damning revelations going to change the love you have for Obama?

Last week, the headache of the literate world was a book called “Against the Run of Play” by Segun Adeniyi who published a book about the 2015 general elections written as a compilation of interviews he had with the major players.

[Read also: Segun Adeniyi reacts to the piracy of his books online]

This week, the stress is all the way from the United States where a tell-all book was written by Pulitzer prize winner, David Garrow will be published in just five days. The book, titled, “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama” reveals very surprising (for lack of a better way to put it) details about the former life of America’s favourite President.

If this were a biography about someone else, it would have been nothing more than juicy gist for people to pass around. But this is President Obama. He is a mensch. A good man, husband, father. Dang! He was THE president!

To hear details claiming that there was a time in his life when he was an “earthy”, “passionate” and “comfortable” 22-year old who was making love to 25-year-old girls after only two weeks of dating. To hear things like this about Obama simply does not feel right.

[In case you missed it: “Obama considered a gay relationship” new biography reveals]

According to Genevieve Cook, someone who Obama apparently dated,  they made love on their first date after only two weeks of meeting. The sex was so awesome Cook wrote a poem on it: “B. That’s for you. F’s for all the f***ing that we do“.

Cook also revealed that she, Obama and other friends did cocaine regularly at parties, although she admitted he mostly did less than the rest of the pack.

For every five lines that somebody did, he would have done half.

The autobiography also reveals that Obama may have considered a relationship with one of his university professors who was also openly gay. Said professor, Lawrence Goldwyn had once visited Obama in the White House while the latter was President.

The book says: “Obama wrote somewhat elusively to his first intimate girlfriend that he had thought about and considered gayness but ultimately decided that a same-sex relationship would be less challenging and demanding than developing one with the opposite sex”.

We are reading these things and thinking: “the same Obama?”

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But really, the question is whether these things should change the way you feel about Obama?

Americans love all the nitty gritty details of the personal lives of their public figures. We all do, don’t we?

Note that these stories are coming straight out of an unauthorised biograpghy of the former president. The Obamas (both Barack and Michelle) are currently writing their own autobiographies and hopefully will speak to the truth of these allegations.

But before then, has this changed the way you feel about him?

One comment

  1. No, this information will not change the way I feel about president Obama.
    When we are still young we just start discovering ourself and the world.
    We are searching and make good and wrong choices.
    And we may say things in a wrong way and regret it later.
    I am very interested in a tell-all book about this author ‘David Garrows’ life!

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