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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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To: null and void

OK, who are we to believe? Obama himself or his step-grandmother? Maybe both dads were furious for different reasons. Or maybe each side of the story has painted in the most favorable light.

Regardless of whether both, neither, or only one of the accounts is true, notice that Sarah alludes to LETTERS from Senior pleading for help. She in no way says Senior fled with his new wife to Africa to seek refuge from the wrath of Ann’s father about the marriage.

Thus, I view this account as indirect confirmatory evidence that Senior must have been in Hawaii—not Africa—during the period Feb. through July 1961. Once Ann’s pregnancy became obvious (it’s not clear when either set of parents were made aware of this), any concerns about marriage presumably were displaced by much more immediate and practical concerns.


4,589 posted on 08/09/2008 12:31:20 PM PDT by DrC
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