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Reading reading reading about Stanley Dunham, even obama’s own (disturbingly contemptuous) words from his own book

she was a naive idealist who thought Obama Sr’s African family would embrace her liberal white anti-American revolutionary self with open arms ... kumbaya

I think she intended to go native and deliver in Kenya- when she recognized he was a bigamist and his family hated her white guts and would never accept her, and that being a minor African “wife" to a muslim in a polygamous marriage and in a culture where men were freely accepted to bang anyone they looked at... was not so glamorous after all..the "emotional cruelty" of her "marriage" began when she landed in Kenya and found out she was nothing but a minor trophy

She tried to get home to Mama - but being heavily preggers, instead got to a Brit-run colonial hospital and then back to Hawaii (or Seattle?) as fast as she could

Then Granny Madelyn tried to erase the Kenyan episode and assure the kid would get citizen benefits with a fake COLB registration... and even though through 1962 "Anna Obama" kept telling her friends O Sr was going to come for her and the baby... and tried to follow him to Harvard- he never came back or even acknowledged her until she ambushed him at Honolulu airport- O's only picture with his Royal African "father"

All the ingredients of a soap opera

:)

I think she intended to go native and deliver in Kenya- when she recognized he was a bigamist and his family hated her white guts and would never accept her, and that being a minor African “wife" to a muslim in a polygamous marriage and in a culture where men were freely accepted to bang anyone they looked at... was not so glamorous after all..the "emotional cruelty" of her "marriage" began when she landed in Kenya and found out she was nothing but a minor trophy

She tried to get home to Mama - but being heavily preggers, instead got to a Brit-run colonial hospital and then back to Hawaii (or Seattle?) as fast as she could

Yep, I can agree with all that. Others were wondering why she had him in Mombasa when Nairobi was much closer to O Sr.'s home village. Trying to get back to Hawaii (or Seattle--good point) by boat, after the airline wouldn't let her fly, explains her presence in Mombasa.

Oh, well, it's all just speculation anyway. :)