LOOKING FOR DAVID:
...but what jumped out at me was the reference to just last week I was discussing the problem with the secretary of HUD at a White House dinner. Terrific guy, Jack. I presume thats a reference to Jack Kemp.
But Jack Kemp didnt become secretary of HUD until 1989, when George H. W. Bush took office. Obama spent most of Bushs term at Harvard Law School. (And at this point in DFMF, Obama hasnt even moved to Chicago yet, where he spent three years before going to Harvard.) I noted last summer that the reference didnt quite add up, even granting that Obama writes in the introduction, for the sake of compression, some of the characters that appear are composites of people Ive known, and some events appear out of precise chronology.
A bit of digging reveals that it is pretty tough to find when Obamas half-brother David Ndesandjo died; some sites put it at 1987. So in the span of several pages, we have an anedote from 1983 (when Obama tells the guard he is 22), his half-brothers death (at age 25-26?), and a reference to Kemp (which couldnt have happened before Obama was 28).
SO LET'S PLAY WHO CAN FIND DAVID, SHALL WE?
the link:
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/7368/recalling-jack-kemps-cameo-dreams-my-father
The timeline really messes with one’s head. Weren’t early stories out that claimed that David was 15 when he died?