Making up history as it suits the myth!
Just recently (Feb 2010), Jerome Corsi of WorldNetDaily, apparently referencing this same 1959 article, wrote:
"The first article documenting Barack Obama Sr.'s presence in Hawaii was by journalist Shurei Hirozawa in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on Sept. 18, 1959, only nine days after the Jackie Robinson airlift.
"The article suggested Barack Obama Sr., then fully settled in Hawaii and enrolled at the university, had used personal savings to pay his travel expenses from Kenya to Hawaii and tuition costs at the university. "
[NOTE: Although BHO Sr may have used some of his own money, this claim by Corsi that Obama Sr was responsible for all travel and college expenses has no where been confirmed, and evidence is available to the contrary in statements by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk and Cora Weiss]
Corsi continues with a quote: "But the money [Barack Obama Sr.] saved will only stretch out for two semesters or less because of the high cost of living in Hawaii, he found out," wrote Hirozawa. "He'll work, he says, and possibly apply for a scholarship."
[NOTE & question: Does the quote Corsi uses come from the 1959 article or from someone quoting the 1959 article? The quote does NOT come from the 2008 Marannis article because Manannis uses only one quote the 1959 article: "when he read in an American magazine about its racial tolerance."
Note also that BHO Sr said in the 1959 interview that he did NOT have a scholarship when he began classes at the University of Hawaii.
These are David Marannis' references to the 1959 article in his 2008 article:
His [BHO Sr] arrival in Honolulu was announced in a newspaper article under the headline "Young Men from Kenya, Jordan and Iran Here to Study at U.H."
Obama told the reporter [Hirozawa, in 1959] that he grew up on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, in East Africa, and was a member of the Luo tribe. He said he had worked as an office clerk in Nairobi for several years to save money for college and settled on UH "when he read in an American magazine about its racial tolerance."
Other accounts have said he went to Hawai'i because it was the only U.S. university to offer him a scholarship, but that appears unlikely, based on this contemporaneous report. In the newspaper story, Obama said he had enough money to stay in Hawai'i only for two semesters unless he applied for a scholarship.
He said he would study business administration and wanted to return to Kenya to help with its transition from tribal customs to a modern economy. He was concerned, he said, about his generation's disorientation as Kenyans rejected old ways yet struggled with Westernization.
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In the same lengthy 2008 article, Marannis makes a reference to and quotes Obama Sr in ANOTHER 1959 newspaper article written "a few months into Obama's first semester":
A few months into Obama's first semester, another newspaper story about him focused on his conclusions about racial attitudes on the island. "No one seems to be conscious of color," he said.
But there were stereotypes to shatter on both sides — his of Hawai'i and Hawai'i's of Africa.
"When I first came here, I expected to find a lot of Hawaiians all dressed in native clothing and I expected native dancing and that sort of thing, but I was surprised to find such a mixture of races," he said.
When asked if people questioned him about Kenya, he laughed and said: "Oh, yes. People are very interested in the Mau Mau rebellion (an uprising against the British) and they ask about race relations in Kenya. I tell them they've improved since the rebellion but are not perfect. They also ask if Kenya is ready for self-government. Some others ask me such questions as how many wives each man has back home, what we eat, how I dress at home, how we live, whether we have cars."
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Is it possible to find both 1959 articles?