{"id":1998190,"date":"2023-08-11T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-biographer-barack-wants-these-letters-kept-secret-it-would-be-a-signal-event-if-they-ever-went-public\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:44:41","slug":"obama-biographer-barack-wants-these-letters-kept-secret-it-would-be-a-signal-event-if-they-ever-went-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-biographer-barack-wants-these-letters-kept-secret-it-would-be-a-signal-event-if-they-ever-went-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s biographer reveals that Barack desires to keep these letters confidential, emphasizing their potential significance if they were ever made public."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-biographer-barack-wants-these-letters-kept-secret-it-would-be-a-signal-event-if-they-ever-went-public%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1998190&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President\u200b Barack Obama&#8217;s Hidden Secrets<\/h2>\n<p>According to one biographer, \u200bformer President Barack Obama\u2063 has concealed many things behind his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-biographer-barack-wants-these-letters-kept-secret-it-would-be-a-signal-event-if-they-ever-went-public\/\" title=\"Obama's biographer reveals that Barack desires to keep these letters confidential, emphasizing their potential significance if they were ever made public.\">carefully cultivated public \u200cimage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David Garrow, author of &#8220;Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,&#8221; believes that the ex-president&#8217;s long-ago letters to \u2064his former \u200bgirlfriend, \u200cSheila \u2062Miyoshi \u2063Jager, contain \u2064much that readers would find revealing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barack made it clear to me\u200d that he hoped I would never read them \u2014 I \u2062can put\u2063 it that way. I think if the\u2062 letters to Sheila\u2064 ever \u2063become public, I\u200d think that will be a signal event,&#8221; Garrow\u2063 told\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/obama-biographer-letters-44s-ex-hopes-public-never-sees-how-michelle-changed-since-chicago-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> in an \u2063interview published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Garrow explained that Obama&#8217;s \u2063letters \u200dwould show\u200c an &#8220;extremely serious\u2063 and extremely intense&#8221; relationship between the \u2064former president and \u2064Jager.<\/p>\n<h3>Obama&#8217;s Past Relationships: Opportunism, \u200dElitism,\u200d and \u200cPhoniness<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-portrait-artists-old-paintings-come-back-bite-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama<\/a> \u2063 turned 62 on Aug. 4. People in their seventh \u2063decade\u200c of life\u200c tend to \u2064have a few\u2064 skeletons\u200c in the closet. In most \u200dcases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-report-shows-almost-1-in-3-women-experienced-violence-even-before-pandemic\/\" title=\"WHO Report Shows Almost 1 in 3 Women Experienced Violence Even Before Pandemic\">public knowledge<\/a> \u2063of those skeletons only whets the appetite for further gossip.<\/p>\n<p>Stories of the former \u2062president&#8217;s past relationships, however, carry more than tabloid-level interest. They reveal certain qualities that formed a pattern in Obama&#8217;s life: opportunism, elitism, \u2063and phoniness.<\/p>\n<p>Jager told Garrow that Obama twice proposed marriage. \u2064She rejected him both times.<\/p>\n<p>The biracial \u200bObama\u200d later claimed that the relationship ended because Jager, who has both European and\u2064 Asian ancestry, did not fit into his emerging &#8220;black \u2063consciousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Jager said their breakup stemmed from an\u2063 argument over Obama&#8217;s refusal to condemn a black Chicago official who made anti-Semitic \u200cremarks. \u2063&#8221;I challenged him on the question \u200cof black racism,&#8221; she said,\u2064 according \u2064to\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/world\/obama-and-ex-girlfriend-rowed-over-antisemitism-1.440611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jewish Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Garrow noted that Obama&#8217;s political \u200dambitions would \u2064have made \u200bmarriage to Jager untenable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one aspect that I will endorse or that \u200bis inescapably true is that \u2063by 1988, he knew he wanted to\u2064 run for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-egregious-school-board-members-battle-gov-newsoms-personal-attacks-threats-of-fines-legal-action\/\" title=\"School board members clash with Gov. Newsom over personal attacks, fines, and legal threats.\">public\u200d office<\/a> in Chicago,&#8221; \u2063Garrow told Fox.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he knew &#8230; that having a \u200dwife like\u200c Sheila Jager, half-Dutch, half-Japanese, would not cut it in black \u200dChicago. &#8230; Having\u2063 a non-black spouse 25, \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mark-green-bidens-migrant-move-facilitating-human-trafficking\/\" title=\"Rep. Mark Green: Biden's Migrant Move 'Facilitating Human Trafficking'\">35 years ago<\/a> was an active political \u200dproblem for a black candidate,&#8221; the biographer said.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Obama&#8217;s \u2063subsequent marriage to Michelle Robinson, whether politically motivated or not, certainly had opportunistic elements \u200cto it.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the Obamas&#8217; fantastic wealth and celebrity status\u2063 have given them \u200ban elitist vibe that \u2063is\u2063 a far cry from their modest roots on the South Side of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/letts-chicago-mayors-lame-word-games-cant-cover-big-crime-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no resemblance \u200dbetween their lives today and who they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">20 years ago<\/a>,&#8221; Garrow said. Black Chicagoans, he added, &#8220;could see this sort\u2062 of\u200c &#8216;desire \u200dto hang with\u2062 celebrities&#8217; thing building&#8221; during Obama&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, the former president has always struck many of his detractors \u2063as something of a fraud. Revelations of personal details merely confirm that impression.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, for instance, Garrow\u200c made news when he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/arts-letters\/articles\/david-garrow-interview-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tablet<\/a> \u200cmagazine that in letters to Alex McNear, another old girlfriend, Obama confessed \u200cto having &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-repeatedly-fantasized-homosexuality-dated-someone-else-michelle-biographer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly fantasized<\/a>&#8221; about homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, in a\u2064 &#8220;Tucker on\u2063 Twitter&#8221; episode \u2062posted in\u200c June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/look-fox-news-tucker-carlson-may-landed-huge-conservative-investors-new-media-company-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> made a cryptic \u2063remark about Obama&#8217;s\u200c private conduct.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ep. 2 Cling to \u200cyour taboos! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/45AeVdtwOu\">pic.twitter.com\/45AeVdtwOu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1666928190445477890?\">June\u200d 8,\u200b 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former \u2063President Donald Trump enjoys the support\u2064 of millions for exactly the\u2064 opposite reason. For good or ill, Trump \u200balways strikes\u2062 us as authentic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the more we learn about Obama, \u2063the less authentic he seems.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-biographer-barack-wants-letters-kept-secret-signal-event-ever-went-public\/\">Obama Biographer: Barack Wants These Letters Kept Secret, It Would Be a &#8216;Signal Event&#8217; if They Ever Went Public<\/a> \u2063appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that he had to burn the letters we had written to each other,\u201d Jager said. Garrow argues that Obama&#8217;s desire for control over his narrative extends to his personal life, raising questions about the authenticity of his public persona. The letters, if ever released, could provide valuable insights into the enigmatic figure that is Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1998191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}