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.”
OMG!
“In the light of what is called “The Birther” movement, these memories are still foremost in my mind concerning this. While I cannot swear it was Barak Obama, all the details I do remember of that chance encounter fit the profile of the man who some people claim is born in Kenya and others claim he was born in Hawaii . The man I met was about 18, thin, Mulatto, told me he was born in Mombassa, raised overseas, was living in Hawaii and hadn’t yet been to many places in the world outside of those places, mostly, hadn’t been to the mainland of America for any long time period if at all. And he openly told me he wanted to be President.
And I remember that face, the face of a young man who sat on a table to my right front, his hands resting on the edge of the table, him leaning forward, his smile, all teeth. It was Barak Obama. I don’t know if I’d bet my life on it, but I am willing to tell people openly at the risk of my ridicule. I was there, and saw him, spoke to him, and he openly told me he was born in Mombassa, Kenya, not Hawaii .”
C’mon! Thank you for the link, but this is beyond absurd! This is like that Larry Sinclair stuff.
parsy, who is shaking his head in disbelief!
“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 black.
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sought them out to sell or buy drugs and have a little back door sex no doubt.