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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."

“Since neither she nor Sr had a residence in Hawaii, SADO being a practiced liar, made up an address as their place of residence.”

Here’s a possiblity in regard to this. Lefforge taught at the university. He also had three young children. He could have met Stanley Ann at the university at some time and perhaps invited her to his home for a party or for some other kind of group get-together. Perhaps she could have even baby-sat the kids to make some extra money. She could have remembered the address and decided to use it as her own thinking no one would really notice. Even if they did, they would probably think it was a typo. I think it would have been a real fluke to just make up an address that actually turned out to be a real address.

To your 9485: 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."

You know a variation of that may not be too far off the motivation that explains her conduct.

She wasn't afraid of Obama Sr.; he was in Hawaii thousands of miles away. She was concerned about his relatives.

You get her back to Seattle around August 6 West Coast Time with that theory consistent with the evidence.

I don't see her in fear of Obama Sr. Her statements to Susan to the contrary could be a lie. But, after all of this; she spends a year in Seattle and Hawaii, and then goes back to Cambridge to try to put the deal back together again; doesn't sound like she is afraid of him.

In the US? SADO is a very strong young lady. Obama Sr. is still on an uptick--he can't afford to have that kind of problem in the US for a whole host of reasons. She would run him through if her father didn't.

Between August 6, 1961 and September 25, 1961, she had some kind of more or less direct communication with Sr. that resulted in a decision that she couldn't put the deal back together again in Hawaii and she opted to go to school at Washington which is where she wanted to be anyway.

It might be helpful to know when she made that decision. I remain of the view that it is likely she made it all the way back to Hawaii and consulted with her mother who I view as the moving force. I think that was part of a scheme designed to assure U S Citizenship for the baby. But at present, I don't think we can prove that.