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Ping, and Good morning.
It’s 61 degrees F and a little cloudy today.
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12/20/2013 6:11:27 AM PST by
Yosemitest
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To: Yosemitest
Good morning! 30ish and ice where I am.
3 posted on
12/20/2013 6:22:23 AM PST by
freemama
To: Yosemitest
Obamas Half-Brother to Set the Record Straight About Presidents Memoir: A Lot of That Stuff Barack Wrote Is Wrong President Barack Obamas half brother is publishing an autobiography that details the domestic abuse that served as the theme for his earlier semiautobiographical novel, which featured an abusive parent patterned on their late father. In fact, Mark Obama Ndesandjo says he wants to set the record straight about some of the lies President Obama included in his bestselling 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father.
Ndesandjo also recounts his sporadic but intense encounters with his brother over the years in Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery. The self-published book is to be released in February. In Dreams From My Father, Obama seeks to learn more about their father, a mostly absent figure, after learning of his death in a car crash in 1982 at age 46.
Ndesandjos book comes four years after his novel, Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love in the East. As in his first book, Ndesandjo wanted to raise awareness of domestic abuse by using his familys story, although he said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday that the presidents relatives have not universally welcomed his airing of private matters in public. Ndesandjo spoke ahead of a news conference to launch the book in Guangzhou on Thursday.
When asked how he would describe his relationship with his brother, he said, Right now its cold and I think part of the reason is because of my writing. My writing has alienated some people in my family.
Even though he felt their relationship was distant, I hope that my brother and I can really hug each other after hes president and we can be a family again, said Ndesandjo, who resembles Obama. Like the president, Ndesandjo also has a white American mother, Ruth Ndesandjo, a Jewish woman who was Barack Obama Sr.s third wife.
Ndesandjo, 48, has lived for 12 years in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen, next door to Hong Kong. He moved there to teach English after losing his job when the U.S. economy cratered following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and now works as a consultant. Ndesandjo, who is married to a Chinese woman, learned to speak Chinese and immersed himself in the study of Chinese culture, including poetry and brush calligraphy. Trained as a classical pianist, he gives lessons as a volunteer at an orphanage.
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4 posted on
12/20/2013 6:30:10 AM PST by
Yosemitest
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