Obanger banged an Aussie!

[Gob]

hey, we have something in common...

AUSTRALIA finally got a piece of a US President. Barack Obama was just out of law school when he began a two-year affair with Genevieve Cook, daughter of an Australian diplomat.



He was 22. She was 25. In 1983 she was teaching primary school children when she met him at a Christmas party in East Village. She brought a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream. And kept a diary!

Nearly 30 years later, some of it can be perused in an extract from a book, Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss, published in Vanity Fair magazine.

Among the unpresidentially juicier entries:

First date - ''I'm pretty sure we had dinner maybe the Wednesday. I think maybe he cooked me dinner. Then we went and talked in his bedroom. And then I spent the night. It all felt very inevitable.''

A certain fragrance - ''I open the door, that Barack keeps closed, to his room, and enter into a warm, private space pervaded by a mixture of smells that so strongly speak of his presence, his liveliness, his habits - running sweat, Brut spray deodorant, smoking, eating raisins, sleeping, breathing.''

A warning sign - ''The sexual warmth is definitely there - but the rest of it has sharp edges and I'm finding it all unsettling and finding myself wanting to withdraw from it all. I have to admit that I am feeling anger at him for some reason, multi-stranded reasons. His warmth can be deceptive. Tho he speaks sweet words and can be open and trusting, there is also that coolness.''

Don't look back - ''Barack leaving my life - at least as far as being lovers goes … In the same way that the relationship was founded on calculated boundaries and carefully, rationally considered developments, it seems to be ending along coolly considered lines … Obviously I was not the person that brought infatuation. (That lithe, bubbly, strong black lady is waiting somewhere!)''

Genevieve Cook was a fairly unusual Australian.

Her father, the Geelong Grammarian Michael Cook, was a career diplomat appointed by Malcolm Fraser as top spook - director-general of the Office of National Assessments - and who became ambassador in Washington.

Her mother, Helen Ibbitson, came from a Melbourne banking family and was an art historian. Soon after a Jakarta posting they divorced and their daughter went to the US where her mother had married Philip Jessup, counsel to the National Gallery of Art.

She completed secondary education at Emma Willard School, the gothic, private and academically rigorous prep school for young women in Troy, New York State, before attending college in Philadelphia and New York.

In 1983 she was an assistant teacher for second and third graders at Brooklyn Friends School when she met the POTUS-to-be.

Maraniss's book also traces Obama love letters written earlier to a classmate, Alex McNear.

In his best-selling autobiography Dreams of My Father, Obama admitted to ''compressing'' girlfriends.

He wrote of a woman who ''had dark hair, and specks of green in her eyes. Her voice sounded like a wind chime.''

Must have been the Australian accent.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/voice-li ... z1tqpFtRoG

[dgs49]

Given her father's occupation, it's not surprising she would be comfortable around spooks.

[dales]

Spies?

[Gob]

Oh my! Sits back and awaits responses to Dave's "interesting" post...

[Scooter]

Some posts are best left to just lay there.

[Lord Jim]

I think he meant to say "knee-grows"....

[Lord Jim]

I can hardly wait for Dave to explain how "spooks" isn't a pejorative term for black people....

[Sue U]

Because he's not racist.

[Lord Jim]

Perhaps he meant the term "spooks" as a term of endearment....

He's repeatedly challenged folks to come up with anything he's said that demonstrates that he is a racist.

Awfully obliging of him to provide those people with that post...

[dgs49]

Actually, it's called a "play on words."

Now if I really wanted to manifest my "racism," I would have said something about Our Beloved President shoring up his bona fides with the Bruthas by consorting with a White Woman for a couple years, as most of them dearly aspire to do.

But I chose to let that one lie.

[MajGenl.Meade]

That lithe, bubbly, strong black lady is waiting somewhere!

That's quite a prediction.

dgs - don't bother making it worse. Spook was bad enough - it's not just a 'play' on words. It's using a racist epithet as if it were cute and funny. It isn't

Meade

[Econoline]

What the general just said.

[Joe Guy]

With one short dgs49 post, he has spooken volumes about himself.