Morning Examiner: Silly season is here

Published May 3, 2012 4:00am ET



There may be some major surprises between now and November that will end up affecting how Americans vote. But the question of whom Obama slept with 30-years ago, whom Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman is sleeping with today,and what Ann Romney is wearing, are not the questions that will be on Americans’ minds. Still, those three stories are eating up most of the free-media bandwidth this week.

Politico reports that David Maraniss’ new book, Barack Obama: The Story, is causing major “fretting” in the White House since the details it reveals “threaten” the “narrative” Obama created about himself in Dreams of My Father. Some of those details splashed on Drudge yesterday, including the fact that Obama’s “New York girlfriend” was actually a composite of two women, now named in the book.

Obama disclosed up front that many of the characters in his “non-fiction” account of his life were composites, but having each one actually identified, and their stories told, will eat away at the Obama myth bite by bite.

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