John P. Owens

We want to know more about Obama.  what they want us to know, is getting a little stale.   Time to fess up. The blogosphere abhors a vacuum. So when the mainstream media (MSM) leave holes in a given narrative -- in this case, the biography of the president -- bloggers individually, incrementally, and indefatigably strive to fill in the blanks -- sometimes successfully, sometimes less so.  In his comprehensive, 600-plus-page biography of Barack Obama titled The Bridge , New Yorker editor David Remnick lays down the baseline of what the mainstream media know about the president -- or at least what they want us to know. In Obama's ten years of bachelorhood before he met Michelle in 1989, Remnick creates a credible picture of him as a popular, good-looking man about town. Obama's Chicago mentor Jerry Kellerman tells Remnick that Obama dated various women and "was more than capable of taking care of himself." Another Chicago friend, John Owens , claims, "Barack tends to make a strong impression on women." And Remnick refers specifically to an "old girlfriend" that Obama rather coolly abandoned upon leaving Chicago for Harvard in 1988. "No one," he writes, "including his roommate and closest friend at the time, Siddiqi, knew of this mysterious lover's existence." - - - -  And no one knew Obama while he supposedly attended Columbia.  Mmmmmmmmmmmm. http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/04/barack_obamas_missing_girlfrie.html