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Obama Reveals He Used To Learn Marx To Pick Up Girls When He Was In College
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Obama in his new book explained: "Looking back it's embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know," he shared of his days at Los Angeles' Occidental College, where he matriculated before transferring to Columbia University in 1981, "[Karl] Marx and [Herbert] Marcuse, so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; [Frantz] Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; [Michel] Foucault and [Christian] Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black."
As a strategy, he wrote, his "pseudo-intellectualism" was largely flawed. "I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships," he noted. "Still these halting efforts served a purpose: Something approaching a worldview took shape in my mind."
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