Who is Race Bannock? Where is the support.
parsy
Race Bannock is a long-time, well-respected poster at FR. He posted an account of a conversation he had with a guy who in retrospect had to have been Obama, who said he had lived in Indonesia, was born in Mombasa, and wanted to be president someday. The reason Race knows he’s remembering correctly is the Mombasa connection. Race had been in Mombasa not long before and had considered trying to find the guy again to show him the pictures of his birthplace.
The original story he wrote is at:
http://nygoe.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/barack-obama-sighting-hawaii-1980/#comment-567
The thread about it here is at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397370/posts
And a news report at
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2007Feb06/0,4675,ObamaHawaiianRoots,00.html corroborates the possibility of the encounter Race describes on a military base, saying:
“As a teenager, Obama went to parties and sometimes sought out gatherings on military bases or at the University of Hawaii that were mostly attended by blacks. He wrote in his book that he tried drugs and let his grades slip in his final years of high school.”