I’ve been looking through the book Rising Star: The making of Barack Obama by Pulitzer Prize winning author David J. Garrow. The book is huge. The main text is 1,084 pages, followed by a few hundred pages of chapter notes, and then about another hundred pages for the bibliography and index. Garrow reportedly interviewed over a thousand of Obama’s friends and colleagues and even interviewed Obama himself for eight hours. All this for a book that only covers Obama’s pre-presidential life!
Obama fans might be disappointed to learn how calculating and deceptive Obama has been about his own life story. On the other hand, Obama haters will be disappointed to learn that Obama was an excellent law student who earned his high grades at Harvard.
Indeed I’m impressed by how the book is both so negative yet so positive. Unlike many biographers who try to vilify or deify their subject, Garrow only seems interested in gathering as much information as he can and letting the chips fall where they may. It’s great when truly objective historians take the time to interview this many people and collect this much original research before memories fade, people die, and things get covered up.
Rising Star is a gift to history.
Pumpkin Person 
Do you already tried to hide your blackness some day in your blog*
I bet the book doesn’t mention that his mother was a shallow state exchange student which is why she ended up in indonesia.
I sometimes think Steve Sailer does more journalism than the entire MSM put together.
his mother was a whore. first a kenyan then an indonesian.
obama is robert rubin’s hand puppet.
The other thing is seeing as obama allowed him to be interviewed for 8 hours, I would be shocked if he didnt have a final say on what went into the book.
Its a bit like the one Niall Ferguson did on the Rothschild family. Literally the preface is him stating that he wasn’t influenced in any way to keep things in or out. But if you read between the lines, its obvious Nathaniel Rothschild was pretty close to a psychopath.
Puppys theory that nobody above 140IQ is psychopathic is proven wrong by niall ferguson i should say.
Clinical psychopaths are only 1% of America and they average lower on IQ tests than non-psycopaths, but they’re likely more common in certain high IQ jobs like CEOs, lawyers, media, politicians & whatever it is that you do.
I doubt Obama had final say. That might be the case with a lot of journalists but Garrison likely has higher standards.
Their interviews were off the record but Garrison did mention in one youtube video I saw, that Obama denied losing at poker even though Garrison has multiple witnesses.
Thats a trivial detail. If I was a politician and I gave 8 hours of time to someone plus my endorsement of his book….you bet I would get final say on it.
obama didn’t endorse it.
he did
Did not
is this you pill?
Scary . The guy has a model look but seems to be completely fucked up.
When I see that, I believe that a desertic mind ontology like mine with no « voices » , « no images », « no memories » , « no familiarity feeling attached to anything » is better to foster an environment where the logical part of the brain stay in control and undisturbed. The cost is that the construction of the subjective self is quite poor and that some part of human experience are missing …
yes he did
Nope
So what’s Obama IQ?
The truth is no one knows. He appears to have taken several standardized tests in his life including an official IQ test when he was young, but the scores remain unknown. People have made educated guesses about his LSAT scores but this remains speculative.
2 SD´s above the mean.
Yeah, I’m not an Obama fan, but 2 SD makes sense to me.
So Pumpkin are you excited for the new Halloween movie? Heard John carpenter was producing it. I saw some of the previews, and it seems like it could be a good watch.
Yes very much so.
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