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To: David

“given Stanley Ann had been kicked out by her family”

What’s the basis for this claim?

“In a Russian language course, he met an awkward, shy American girl, only 18, and they fell in love. The girl’s parents, wary at first, were won over by his charm and intellect; the young couple married, and she bore them a son, to whom he bequeathed his name.”
http://www.nationmedia.com/EastAfrican/01112004/Features/PA2-2212.html

I think you fundamentally misunderstand who was angry with whom:
“Stanley Ann’s prospective father-in-law was furious. He wrote the Dunhams “this long, nasty letter saying that he didn’t approve of the marriage,” Obama recounted his mother telling him in “Dreams.” “He didn’t want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman.” http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,0,1310554.story?page=3

In light of the foregoing, your account of them leaving Hawaii to face the wrath of Senior’s father in Africa makes no sense.


4,525 posted on 08/08/2008 2:57:10 PM PDT by DrC
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To: DrC
I think you fundamentally misunderstand who was angry with whom: “Stanley Ann’s prospective father-in-law was furious. He wrote the Dunhams “this long, nasty letter saying that he didn’t approve of the marriage,” Obama recounted his mother telling him in “Dreams.” “He didn’t want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman.”

I didn't see this post earlier. The kicking her out came from one of the Susan Blake interviews--or the interview of her other friend from high school; who speculated that she had been sent to Canada to have the baby.

As to the objection of the grandfather, to some degree that is more self serving testimony from Obama--could be true; might have been a problem with the "went to Kenya" events. I doubt it.

4,539 posted on 08/08/2008 5:52:57 PM PDT by David (...)
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To: DrC
I think you fundamentally misunderstand who was angry with whom: “Stanley Ann’s prospective father-in-law was furious. He wrote the Dunhams “this long, nasty letter saying that he didn’t approve of the marriage,” Obama recounted his mother telling him in “Dreams.” “He didn’t want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman.” http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,0,1310554.story?page=3

In light of the foregoing, your account of them leaving Hawaii to face the wrath of Senior’s father in Africa makes no sense.

Ummmmm, wrong. Besides blacks being incapable of racism (does that really need a < /sarc> tag?) it is in direct conflict with what his Kenyan relatives say:

"The marriage later broke up after Anna's father opposed it, according to Mama Sarah.

"Anna's father was furious about the marriage and threatened to have Obama Snr expelled from the university. Our son sent us letters, pleading that we intervene to save the marriage," remembers Sarah."

Source here

If link doesn't work cut and paste http://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html?page=2

4,582 posted on 08/09/2008 11:33:05 AM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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