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Also, remember this was 1988, when 100 dollars was quite a bit of money, compared to today’s value. Adjusted for via the CPI, that would be about $189 in today's dollars ... an awful lot of money for a kid who “had just finished his job as a poorly paid community worker in Chicago.” It also makes no sense, as Obama is only generous with OTHER people's money, instead of his own. As I recall, Barry and his wife commented on 60 minutes that Obama’s first car was so rusted from when they dated in Chicago that Michelle could see the pavement through a hole in the door. And the most-obviously question to this story is that Miami is FAR removed for a kid living in Chicago, in or about to begin school in Boston. IF he was making one of pilgrimages to his “homeland,” wouldn't he fly from NY to Europe then Africa versus through Miami to Africa? |
Yes ... Miami has piqued my curiosity.
It’s a new one on me, too, but the story’s
out there. Urban Legends site claims it’s
true.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=1988+miami+obama&start=0&sa=N&fp=a2c66d4f91169d04
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The piece of paper said ‘Barack Obama’ and his address in Kansas, which is the state where his mother comes from. Mary carried the slip of paper around in her wallet for years, before it was thrown out.
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=84678.0:
Okay, just one question, my sense of logic is having trouble wrapping around this story - not that I am saying it’s false!
but... Obama is living in New York as a community organizer, just got accepted to Harvard, yet he ends up in Miami International Airport (instead of a NY Airport) at the baggage check in counter no less, when all we know is that he traveled to Europe before starting at Harvard.
Why Miami? Anyone have any idea why he was visiting Miami at that time?
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread398518/pg1
More diversion
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“After traveling to Kenya in 1988, Obama wrote: “Nairobi’s history refused to settle in orderly layers, as if what was then and what was now fell in constant, noisy collision.”
http://madayo.com/2009/07/12/the-obama-family-homecoming/
c. September 1959. Barack Obama leaves his pregnant wife behind to enroll in the University of Hawaii. Hawaii had just joined the Union in August. He pronounces his name with the accent on the first syllable, “Bear-ick.”
c. June 1960. Ann Dunham graduates from high school in Mercer Island, WA.
September 26, 1960. The Dunham family moves to Hawaii, where Ann enrolls in the University. Madelyn finds work as a teller for the Bank of Hawaii.
c. September 1960. Ann, an anthropology major, meets Barack, an economics major, in a Russian class at the University of Hawaii. At that time the study of Russian was inextricably mixed up with communism. They hang around in the same group of anti-war students; she is the only female in it, and the only teenager.
early to mid November 1960. UH freshman Ann Dunham (17) reportedly becomes pregnant by Barack Obama (24).
c. December 1960. Ann drops out of UH after only one semester.
Feb 2, 1961. Barack reportedly marries Ann—an illegal marriage, even in progressive Hawaii. No records of their secret wedding on Maui are available.
c. May 1961 Barack is out of school for the summer; a good time to get home to visit his wife and children, including Auma, the daughter he’s never met.
August 4, 1961. The date listed for the birth of Barack Hussein Obama II in Honolulu, Hawaii, on his Certificate of Live Birth. Later, his birth records are sealed by the Governor of Hawaii. No witness has come forward to testify having attended his birth in HI, but several of his Kenyan relatives insist that he was born in Mombasa, Kenya.
August 8, 1961. Barack Hussein Obama II’s Certificate of Live Birth is filed, showing parents as Stanley Ann and Barack Hussein Obama.
August 13, 1961. The Honolulu Advertiser lists among its birth announcements “Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy, son, Aug. 4.” They call him “Barry,” with the accent on the first syllable.
c. late August, 1961 Barack returns to finish up his last year at UH. Ann, however, returns with Barry to visit friends on Mercer Island and enrolls as an extension student at the University of Washington, completing 20 credits by the next summer.
June 1962. Barack graduates from UH with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics, and takes a scholarship from Harvard for an MA in economics.
Spring 1962. Moving back to Honolulu, Ann and her son move in with the Dunhams and enroll on welfare. Ann continues her studies at UH.
December 12, 1963. Kenya assumes independence, led by a coalition of Kikuyu and Luo politicians, representing the first and second largest of over thirty ethnic groups in the highly divided country.
January 1964. Ann files for divorce. Barack signs the papers in Cambridge. Barack goes on to marry another American. They have two sons in Kenya before she divorces him to marry a Tanzanian. Barack goes on to marry at least 2 more Kenyan women.
June 1964. The divorce between Ann and Barack becomes final.
c. September 1964. Ann returns to college at UH. There she meets another economics major, Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia.
http://whitemail.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-chronology.html