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AP Interview: Obama's brother writes about abuse
Houston Chronicle ^ | December 19, 2013 | KELVIN CHAN

Posted on 12/18/2013 11:30:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

"...................The book recounts Ndesandjo's first encounter with Obama, who was visiting Kenya in 1988. They did not hit it off.

"Barack thought I was too white and I thought he was too black," Ndesandjo said. "He was an American searching for his African roots, I was a Kenyan, I'm an American but I was living in Kenya, searching for my white roots."

The 500-page book includes an appendix listing a number of alleged factual errors in Obama's 1995 memoir, "Dreams from my Father," such as quotes incorrectly attributed to Ndesandjo's mother.

"It's a correction. A lot of the stuff that Barack wrote is wrong in that book and I can understand that because to me for him the book was a tool for fashioning an identity and he was using composites," Ndesandjo said.

"I wanted to bring it up because first of all I wanted the record to be straight. I wanted to tell my own story, not let people tell it for me," he said.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dreamsofmyfather; markobamandesanjo; ndesandjo; obamabook; obamabrother; obamafamily; obamahalfbrother

1 posted on 12/18/2013 11:30:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Barack didn’t write those books.


2 posted on 12/18/2013 11:39:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He’s calling Hussein a liar.


3 posted on 12/18/2013 11:42:36 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I believe I read that Ayers now admits to writing Dreams of My Father.


4 posted on 12/18/2013 11:44:02 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife.


5 posted on 12/18/2013 11:48:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Here’s a link to RealClearPolitics with Ayers saying he wrote Dreams of My Father


6 posted on 12/18/2013 11:52:32 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/19/joke_or_not_ayers_says_he_wrote_dreams.html


7 posted on 12/18/2013 11:52:52 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: dennisw

Better go brew some coffee and warm up the Magic Race Ball.


8 posted on 12/19/2013 12:06:16 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So we now know Hussein is a RACIST...He thought his brother was too WHITE.

“....confirms they have never seen eye-to-eye because ‘Barack thought I was too white and I thought he was too black.”
Can you imagine telling, as an example, to Jesse Jackson I think you are too black, or Ophra Windnbag you are not white enough? They would be leading riots.
The OBAMA family is RACIST...writen black on white in the book.I am surprised it is writen on white paper.


9 posted on 12/19/2013 1:59:50 AM PST by Christian1
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So, this guy is STILL alive? The Clintons wouldn’t have let that happen.


10 posted on 12/19/2013 2:17:28 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: Right Wing Assault

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526243/Drunken-beatings-threats-knife-Obamas-half-brother-writes-book-horrors-living-presidents-absent-father-Kenya.html


11 posted on 12/19/2013 2:19:33 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: ransomnote

He sarcastically admitted it. If Jack Cashill is honest, or his research is valid, then I believe Ayers wrote at least one of the books.


12 posted on 12/19/2013 2:44:51 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Interesting


13 posted on 12/19/2013 4:20:41 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: Christian1
Mark wasn't talking about COLOUR when he said:

'Barack thought I was too white and I thought he was too black,' Ndesandjo said. 'He was an American searching for his African roots.

He was referring to CULTURE, which btw is the title of the book

He goes on to say:

'I was a Kenyan, I'm an American but I was living in Kenya, searching for my white roots.'

There's nothing remotely racist about any of that. They are questions of CULTURE as was the motivation for the title of the book.

14 posted on 12/19/2013 1:04:35 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Brown Deer
we know that's a photograph of Ruth with Mark, even if the Daily Mail doesn't:

The Daily Mail caption reads:

Troubled childhood: The President's half brother Mark Obama Ndesandjo as a baby with his mother Stanley Ann Dunham. Mark claims his father once held a knife to her throat

source

15 posted on 12/19/2013 1:52:45 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; butterdezillion

And here's the little family in Kenya. Ruth is holding Mark - he's about one year old. But who is the dark boy who appears to be about five and is tall enough to reach to her waist?

He looks an awful lot like the little boy sitting beside zero who seems to be not much younger than the dark boy. Maybe they were both born in 1961?

Question is, which one might have been the son of the kenyan student, and who was his mother?

16 posted on 12/19/2013 2:44:21 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

what did this useless choomer ever do?


17 posted on 12/19/2013 10:22:54 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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