Obama’s Life Story: Just One Long Series of Easily Debunked Myths

It’s just one Forrest Gump moment after another in Barrack Hussein Obama’s Life.  You would think after so many instances of his ‘autobiography’ winding up in the urban myth sites that he’d quit making up details of his life.  Well, folks here he goes again.  This week’s selection from  Moments of My Metaphorical Life by Barrack Obama is watching astronauts in Hawaii from Grandpa’s shoulders.

Obama said in his speech yesterday:

“One of my earliest memories is of sitting on my grandfather’s shoulders and watching the astronauts come to shore in Hawaii.”

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25479276/

Let’s talk about what is wrong with this memory.  FIrst, the astronauts arrived aboard the USS Hornet in July 1969.  Obama claims he moved to Indonesia at the age of 6 and returned to live with his grandparents in 1971.  Unless Obama was spending summers with his grandparents there is no way he could have seen the USS Hornet arrive in Hawaii.

Second,  I can’t imagine the petite me at 10 on my granddad’s shoulders.  Obama’s grandfather must have been lifting weights for years to handle the slightly chubby Obama.

However, let me make my major point.  This is just the latest in a series of stories that Obama weaves about his mythical childhood. Many of these stories are easily debunked by facts.  His staff calls them metaphorical.  While my mother would have rinsed my mouth out with soap for lying , my University would pull my job for publishing things as facts that are proven untruths.   Remember this one?

“Selma got me born!” On the march anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama,  Obama fondly spun this yarn about his parents.

“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”

Uhhh, Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”

Then there was THIS whopper on Memorial Day Weekend.

Even the MSM didn’t let that one drop.  There were two major problems.  Obama has no uncle and Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets.

Don’t forget this made-up memory.  During the same ‘metaphorically’ enhanced March of last year, the Chicago Tribune reported another faked autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:” Obama  says his racial awakening occurred at age 9 while reading Life Magazine.  He described an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin.  Life magazine’s own historians say the article and the photographs don’t exist.

So, can some one with a background in psychiatry please explain these behaviors too me?