Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Fox News made a big deal about Obama's composite girlfriend a few days ago. Obama has admitted that some of the stories he tells about what happened in his youth as a black man have been simplified so he could tell the story better.

The stories still happened though.

Why It Matters that Obama Dated a Composite and Ate a Dog - President Obama - Fox Nation


"Actually, it turns out that Obama always said that his New York squeeze was a fake. Within a couple of hours of the story breaking, journalists pointed out that at the beginning of Dreams From My Father it reads, 'For the sake of compression, some of the characters that appear are composites of people, I’ve known, and some events appear out of precise chronology.' Politico was forced to print a humiliating correction and David Graham of The Atlantic went in for the kill: 'Politico has served as an unwitting pawn in a game conservative spinmeisters are playing to redefine Obama between now and November … It's much the same as the flap over Obama eating dog, in which a different piece of Dreams From My Father, in which he describes eating canine meat as a boy in Indonesia, was rediscovered. While conservative activists and journalists present these stories while claiming that Obama wasn't properly vetted four years ago, what's actually happening is they're reintroducing facts to the record, this time with a far more negative spin.'" From the above linked FoxNews story.

This is a much more interesting take on Obama though-- Why it matters that Obama dated a composite and ate a dog – Telegraph Blogs