Welcome the Month of May ...Oh and Obama Admits Fabrication?

So, I haven't been blogging as much lately and it's not because I've been lazy, I've just been focused on a few other things. I've been reading, studying, and listening to classical music because I am told it is good for the brain. I have also been doing some extra grooming because every woman needs to set aside some extra time to do all those little extra things that sometimes are neglected. Several home facials, discovering thrifty ways of shopping, and lounging have been on the menu as of late and I also managed to complete some major projects at home.

Well, enough about all of that...

Today's story comes from POLITICO and we learn that the "New York girlfriend" found in Obama's autobiography, Dreams of My Father (which of course I didn't read), is a fake. He is now stating that the character was one that represented several girlfriends (yeah right).

"In Dreams from My Father, Obama chose to emphasize a racial chasm that unavoidably separated him from the woman he described as his New York girlfriend," Maraniss writes, offering a passage from the book in which they go to see a play by a black playwright:

One night I took her to see a new play by a black playwright. It was a very angry play, but very funny. Typical black American humor. The audience was mostly black, and everybody was laughing and clapping and hollering like they were in church. After the play was over, my friend started talking about why black people were so angry all the time. I said it was a matter of remembering—nobody asks why Jews remember the Holocaust, I think I said—and she said that’s different, and I said it wasn’t, and she said that anger was just a dead end. We had a big fight, right in front of the theater. When we got back to the car she started crying. She couldn’t be black, she said. She would if she could, but she couldn’t. She could only be herself, and wasn’t that enough.

"None of this happened with Genevieve," Maraniss writes. "She remembered going to the theater only once with Barack, and it was not to see a work by a black playwright. When asked about this decades later, during a White House interview, Obama acknowledged that the scene did not happen with Genevieve. “It is an incident that happened,” he said. But not with her. He would not be more specific, but the likelihood is that it happened later, when he lived in Chicago. “That was not her,” he said. “That was an example of compression I was very sensitive in my book not to write about my girlfriends, partly out of respect for them. So that was a consideration. I thought that [the anecdote involving the reaction of a white girlfriend to the angry black play] was a useful theme to make about sort of the interactions that I had in the relationships with white girlfriends. And so, that occupies, what, two paragraphs in the book? My attitude was it would be dishonest for me not to touch on that at all … so that was an example of sort of editorially how do I figure that out?”"

To be fair, the first edition apparently mentioned that some of the characters are composites. This of course could be true, or it could all be b#llsh&t and pardon me while I believe the latter, after all, we are talking about Obama here -- the guy that promised us Hope and Change. I sure hope I have some change so I can afford gas to drive to the thrift store tomorrow.

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