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Of Christian students by Islamic extremists at a university in Kenya just days before. While on the campaign trail in 2008, Obama drew the ire of small-town working class Midwestern voters when he chalked up their economic frustrations to racism. Obama couldn’t have sounded more elitist if he tried. In his memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama details how he broke up with his “New York girlfriend,” who was white, over race-related issues. However, it later came to light that the New York girlfriend was not a real person, and instead a “compression” of girlfriends, including Genevieve Cook. In other words, he made up a person just to make a divisive racial poin.

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