The former president's relationship with
Genevieve Cook when he was 22 is revealed in a new biography which tells how it
was sexual from the start and involved pot - and cocaine. She was three years
older when they met and living in Park Avenue, Manhattan, while he was sharing
an apartment where he invited her for dinner and she spent the night. She kept
a diary during their year-and-a-half long relationship which detailed
'passionate' sex and also their use of pot which she smoke daily, and his use
of cocaine. The book reveals how Obama combined three white girlfriends into
one composite character in his memoir, including Sheila Miyoshi Jager, who he
asked to marry and then continued to see while he was with Michelle.
'F
is for all the f***ing we do': What Obama's girlfriend wrote to him after
'passionate' sex with future president who liked to party with pot and COCAINE
New
biography of Barack Obama is laying bare his life since he was born and
discloses his relationships before he married Michelle
He
was long-term lover of Genevieve Cook, an Australian-born graduate when they
met
She
reveals they had sex on their first date and that the 22-year-old, who was then
a journalist on a financial trade magazine, was 'earthy'
'Sexually
he really wasn't very imaginative but he was comfortable,' author David Garrow
reveals she said
She
also reveals his use of cocaine aged 22 and 23 - far later than he himself has
spoken of in his own memoir
Barack
Obama slept with his girlfriend Genevieve Cook on their first date, before she
wrote him a poem about their 'f***ing' and called their sex 'passionate', a new
biography of the former president reveals.
Obama,
a new Columbia graduate who was working for a firm which prepared financial
reports at the time, made dinner for Cook at his apartment in Manhattan two
weeks after meeting her at a New Year's Eve party and handing her his phone
number.
It
was the start of a relationship which is one of a series revealed in Rising
Star: The Making of Barack Obama, which is to be published later this month.
The
1,078-page biography is the most comprehensive work ever on Obama and the first
to be published since he left office.
It
was written after exhaustive research by Pulitzer-prize winning biographer
David Garrow, and also reveals how he asked another woman to marry him – and
continued a relationship with her while dating Michelle, his wife.
Cook
was 25 when she met 22-year-old Obama on New Year's Eve in 1983.
Australian-born
Cook was living in her mother and stepfather's Park Avenue apartment at the
time, but had been brought up around the world, including - like Obama,
Indonesia - as her father was an Australian spy and diplomat.
She
wrote about it in a private memoir and said that at the party 'I remember being
very engaged and just talking nonstop' with Obama.
'The
thing that connected us is that we both came from nowhere – we really didn't
belong.'
Their
first date involved more than talk however, with Obama cooking at the West 114th
Street apartment he shared with two other roommates..
'Then
we went and talked in his bedroom. And then I spent the night. It all felt very
inevitable,' she wrote in a private memoir, revealed by Garrow.
She
spent the night again with him a few days later and rated him highly in bed –
even writing a poem to him saying: 'B. That's for you. F's for all the f***ing
that we do.'
Garrow
reveals that she said: 'Sexually he really wasn't very imaginative but he was
comfortable. He was no kind of shrinking "can't handle it. This is
invasive" or "I'm timid" in any way; he was quite earthy.'
Their
relationship appears to have been deeply sexual, with her writing that 'all this f***ing' was 'so much more
than lust' and also saying in her diary: 'Making love with Barack, so warm and
flowing and soft but deep - relaxed and loving - opening up more.'
She
also wrote in her diary about 'passionate sex', the book says.
But
the couple also used drugs and Cook reveals that Obama was still a cocaine user
when they were together.
He
would spend time with other friends - Hasan Chandoo, Imad Hussain and Sohale
Siddiqi, who he had been friends with at Occidental College, in Los Angeles -
and Cook said the trio was taking 'lots of cocaine'.
They
were far more prolific users than Obama, who she said probably preferred
staying home to read than taking the drug. Chandoo - who was later to become a
fundraiser for Obama - was the leader, the book claims.
'For
every five lines that somebody did, he would have done half,' Cook said.
The
book also notes that Cook and Obama would smoke pot but only at parties and
records one time when during tension in their relationship she wrote in her
diary that they went to a party and got 'high' on cocaine.
That
Obama was still using cocaine in his early 20s is a significant revelation.
He
had previously only disclosed that he used it as a teenage student.
The
couple split in June 1985, after a year and a half together, the book says -
and when Obama came to write Dreams From My Father, he created a composite
girlfriend from the early 1980s.
Another
member of the cast of girlfriends - all white - who became the composite was
Alex McNear, who is described as a 'beautiful blond' who was the focus of a
crushes for many students at Occidental College.
One
male student even fantasized that she was 'the most beautiful lesbian'.
However
the book is far sketchier on their time together, noting that she knew him in
Manhattan as both moved there when he transferred from Occidental to Columbia.
Rising
Star: The Making of Barack Obama is published May 9 and is available for
pre-order now.
Source: dailymail
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