http://bit.ly/GLqWS - - - It is in New York too that Obama meets his Circe, still another subplot that Andersen's reporting undermines. "She was white. She had dark hair, and specks of green in her eyes. Her voice sounded like a wind chime," Obama later tells his half-sister Auma in Dreams. "We saw each other for almost a year." Obama, however, came to see that he and the girl lived in "two worlds." He sensed that "if we stayed together I'd eventually live in hers." And so he pushes her away.
Odysseus too shared the temptress Circe's bed for a year. Like Obama's unnamed girlfriend, Circe lived in a "splendid house" on "spacious grounds." She likewise wanted her lover to stay forever, but Odysseus's mates warned him off, "You god-driven man, now the time has come to think about your native land once more, if you are fated to be saved and reach your high-roofed home and your own country." (Ian Johnston translation) If Obama's friend nicely fills the Circe role, she is surely grounded in the real life person of Diana Oughton, Ayers's lover who was killed in a 1970 bomb blast. As her FBI files attest, Oughton had brown hair and green eyes. Oughton and Obama's alleged lover shared similar family backgrounds as well. In fact, as I have previously reported, they seemed to have grown up on the very same estate, right down to the ancestral home, the encircling trees and small lake in the middle. As Andersen reports, however, "No one, including [Obama's] roommate and closest friend at the time, Siddiqi, knew of this mysterious lover's existence." Obama's mother and sister never met her either although they visited Obama in New York during this time period. Again, it seems as if Ayers imagined a seductress worthy of a Homeric hero and inserted her into the flow of Obama's otherwise unremarkable life. Doing so also allowed him to editorialize on issues racial just as the corporate job enabled him to opine on things capitalistic. - - - Why is this a big deal? Because so much of the goodwill that got Obama elected was predicated on the (utterly false) contention of his literary (and hence intellectual) acumen, and he was given a huge pass on any relationship he may have had with Ayers---essentially getting away with claiming he barely knew the guy. There is also something unfair about his getting all the literary accolades that domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, rightly deserves for his salvaging of Obama's floundering book project. And something creepy about how much of Ayers' autobiography made it into Obama's official memoirs. It's also a big deal because it demonstrates how the media in these twilight years of the republic has become completely immune to reality, if not hostile to it. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
