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It was not until years later, however, when Obama’s older half-sister visited him in Chicago, that he learned how inaccurate his image of his father had been. After working for an American oil company in Kenya and then for Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism, the economist fell out of favor with the government, was blacklisted from finding work and was socially outcast. He became a heavy drinker, turned abusive to his American wife and eventually was destitute, borrowing money from relatives for food, as Obama describes his sister’s account in his memoir.
“All my life, I had carried a single image of my father … The brilliant scholar, the generous friend, the upstanding leader. That image had suddenly vanished,” Obama wrote. “Replaced by … what? A bitter drunk? An abusive husband? A defeated, lonely bureaucrat? To think that all my life I had been wrestling with nothing more than a ghost! The king is overthrown, I thought. … Whatever I do, it seems, I won’t do much worse than that, I thought.”

FROM: http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan05/cover.php

Bold is support of my theory. That SADO left Kenya in fear. No woman in the last two weeks of pregnancy feels like traveling. The baby has already moved into the birth canal. Jericho, where Sarah's house was that Sr considered home was in Nairobi. SADO was already traveling" if she had BO in the Coast hospital in Mombasa as the GLOBE reported. Nairobi and Mombasa are linked by train. The depot is near the international airport and ten miles from the hospitals. In 1961 large vans transported people in the area.

If the baby was born in Mombasa it is probable that the birth would be registered at the hospital and the hospital in turn would relay information to the American Embassy (phone or wire). Who would in turn relay the information to HI (wire) with written documentation to follow, where SADO said was here state of residence. (Nothing sinister)

In HI the birth would be registered. Most likely this would be explained to SADO. Since neither she nor Sr had a residence in Hawaii, SADO being a practiced liar, made up an address as their place of residence. The newspaper picked it up.

SADO leaves Kenya for Washington State, where she only has to activate her earlier registration. Her parents know through a family friend where she is, but she is in hiding from the abusive Sr who may have threatened to take the child and give to his family in Kenya.(another reason to get him registered as an American citizen.)

SADO did not return to HI until after Sr has left the islands and then when she filed for divorce (She wanted to make sure she had sole custody of her son), she timed it so the notice would be sent when she knew he wouldn't be "home."