Details of Obama’s new biography have leaked and boy are they spicy.
The 1500 page tome on former President and one half of JObama bromance reveals he did cocaine with ex-girlfriends, considered a gay relationship in college and twice proposed to another woman before Michelle.
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David J. Garrow and is the first biography about the former president since he left office.
One of the star players in the book is Obama’s first serious girlfriend Genevieve Cook, an Australian primary school teacher who began dating the future president in 1983.
Cook describes how she slept with Obama on their first date and kept a journal of “passionate” love making, adding that it had all felt “very inevitable”.
Garrow reveals that Cook had a personal memoir where she details Obama’s cocaine use in his early 20s.
Apparently, his friends Hasan Chandoo, Imad Hussain and Sohale Siddiqi did “lots of cocaine” – much more than Obama.
“For every five lines that somebody did, he would have done half,” Cook said.
Garrow also managed to track down Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Obama’s girlfriend at the beginning of his political career, who describes Obama as having “a deep-seated need to be loved and admired.”.
Obama apparently proposed to Jager in the winter of ’86 and, though she declined, the couple stayed together until she felt their relationship was marred by Obama’s political ambitions.
Just days before departing for Harvard Law School,Obama again asked Ms Jager to marry him, but Jager claims the proposal was out of “a sense of desperation” that their relationship was ending.
It was at Harvard that Obama met Michelle – America’s future first lady.
The biography claims that Obama and Jager didn’t have a clean break and continued to meet each other throughout the 1990 – 1991 academic year, while he was dating Michelle.
“I always felt bad about it,” Ms Jager told the author.
However, the most ironic part of the story undeniably goes to the revelation Obama was inspired by Donald Trump in his youth.
In an unpublished book written during his Harvard Law School days, he wrote that Americans have a “continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American — I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don’t make it, my children will.”
The biography drops on May 9th if you want to sink your teeth into it.
