Obama Divorce Story: New Book Claims Michelle Nearly Left Barack in 2000
by Free Britney at .The controversial new biography of President Barack Obama claims that his wife, Michelle Obama, planned to leave the future president in 2000.
Is the divorce story real? Is anything in the book?
The unauthorized biography, which Klein claims is based on nearly 200 interviews, has been dismissed by presidential spokesperson Eric Schultz.
"Ed Klein has a proven history of reckless fabrication in order to sell books," he said. "Nobody in their right mind would believe the nonsense in this one."
Nevertheless, the Obama divorce story is the latest revelation in the book - which also discusses his ex Genevieve Cook - to generate major buzz.
In The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, out this week, Klein claims the divorce nearly happened eight years into the Obamas' marriage.
After Obama failed to listen to his wife's warnings in challenging Bobby Rush for his U.S. House seat in 2000 and got creamed, their relationship cooled.
“During the dark days that followed his defeat, he turned to Michelle for comfort. But she was in no mood for sympathy," Klein reportedly writes.
"He had refused to listen to her warnings about taking on Rush."The primary left them in debt and Barack depressed, Klein claims. “Michelle actually had divorce papers drawn up,” he writes, citing one of her friends.
“Obama was so depressed that some of his friends worried that he was suicidal,” the book adds, without elaboration on that particular point.
Obama, of course, was still in the Illinois State Senate, and went on to win a U.S. Senate seat in 2004 that helped establish his national credentials.
But Michelle almost vetoed the Senate race, too.
Northwestern University professor Steven Rogers told Klein that Obama talked about his ambition after they met at a golf fund-raiser.
“My wife will not allow me to run for the Senate until I clear up the debts from my unsuccessful run for Congress,” Obama said, according to Rogers.
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Comments (67 Total)
When you have a man endorsed by the world's leading NAZI, the communists, and the KKK, he becomes president, a man who would abort his own grandchildren, why would a divorce or cocaine matter? What do the secret service and Michelle Obama have in common? They both blow a little dope in the White House.
Listen all if you if you don't do the math u shouldn't be talking at all Obama has increased the economy and double the progress in 4 years since bush left it in the lowest point by 2008 something that bush ( republican) managed to destroy since 2000 and Obama has managed to bring it up in 4 years it is still not where we want it to be but it is slowly getting there and he has been doing his job something bush couldn't manage to do during 8 years but destroy our economy to the point we where all paying 6 dollars for gas!
who cares, so he almost got divorced it's just something called LIFE
President Obama did indeed a great job and I never knew this
yes he is our president he was left with a mess .. my thing is this why does the media disrespect him by calling him Mr. OBAMA think about it listen the next time .. did they ever call any other PRESIDENT MR during his term dont think so
You are so mistaken, during Obama's references to Bush, he called him mister Bush. So I don't believe Obama should be called president either. Just call him Obama, the same way he called former president "Mr. Bush"