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Words of Obama’s Father Still Waiting to Be Read by His Son
The New York Times via The Drudge Report ^ | JUNE 18, 2016 | Rachel L. Swarns

Posted on 06/18/2016 10:03:59 PM PDT by thecodont

The archivist stumbled across the file in a stack of boxes on the second floor of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. The yellowing letters inside dated back more than half a century, chronicling the dreams and struggles of a young man in Kenya.

He was ambitious and impetuous, a 22-year-old clerk who could type 75 words a minute and translate English into Swahili. But he had no money for college. So he pounded away on a typewriter in Nairobi, pleading for financial aid from universities and foundations across the Atlantic.

His letters would help change the course of American history.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alcoholism; islam; obama; obamasfather; polygamy; potus
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Not sure if this should go in Breaking News. Why is this article being released now? What is the news angle?
1 posted on 06/18/2016 10:04:00 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

For the Slimes it’s always a good time to kiss up to Obama. They don’t need any reasons.


2 posted on 06/18/2016 10:09:42 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: thecodont

Talk about a can of worms!

Why, indeed ?


3 posted on 06/18/2016 10:12:08 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: thecodont

Pretty obvious his father was a jerk who cared nothing about Obama or his mother. Also a typical foreign user of American generosity.


4 posted on 06/18/2016 10:14:06 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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To: thecodont

Why do they keep calling Frank Davis a young Kenyan?


5 posted on 06/18/2016 10:19:06 PM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: akalinin

When O talks about his father we don’t know if he is telling the truth. He may just be showing off.


6 posted on 06/18/2016 10:24:13 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: akalinin

Exactly,

Who hasn’t figured out yet besides the NYT’s that Frank Marshall Davis is that obama creatures daddy,


7 posted on 06/18/2016 10:25:52 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: thecodont

Zero probably squelched the story two years ago because, with father’s transcripts and scholastic history released and at hand, it would remind the public that those of the son’s are still under lock and key.


8 posted on 06/18/2016 10:40:14 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: thecodont

I’m sure the New York Times will heavily redact them.


9 posted on 06/18/2016 10:47:26 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far.)
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To: akalinin

Not so sure.he looks exactly like that leader ogf the indonesian cult his mother belonged to.


10 posted on 06/18/2016 10:48:20 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: thecodont

I refuse to read any word the Slimes write.


11 posted on 06/18/2016 10:48:59 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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Obama’s legacy is going down. They need a new romantic angle on their POTUS.
12 posted on 06/18/2016 10:49:17 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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I’ve read so many stories about who his dad might be. The amount of secrecy about his past is unnerving, to say the least.


13 posted on 06/18/2016 11:02:01 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: thecodont

Obama, Sr. is a good example of why we should keep muzzies out. He gave us his sorry ass son.


14 posted on 06/18/2016 11:21:19 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: thecodont

Just think if BO had two parents who loved him, instead of each abandoning him, he might not have grown up to destroy the USA.


15 posted on 06/18/2016 11:21:38 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: akalinin

Frank Marshall Davis was a child molester. Young Barack was very close to him.


16 posted on 06/18/2016 11:24:15 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: thecodont

BO hasn’t read them since they are not on a teleprompter.


17 posted on 06/18/2016 11:25:49 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: akalinin

lol. good one


18 posted on 06/19/2016 12:20:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Trillian; Travis McGee; matt04; SkyPilot

19 posted on 06/19/2016 12:22:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: thecodont

[His letters would help change the course of American history.]

Yes, it was once a thriving nation with a solid future. Now it’s a bankrupt, twisted-morals, 5th-column infested, confused society.


20 posted on 06/19/2016 12:23:55 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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