[autumnraine]

Also, Obama Sr.’s father, Onyango Obama, a wealthy, politically influential landowner, had opposed his son’s marriage to a white woman on racial grounds. So, why would the young man go looking for face-to-face trouble with his famously strong-willed father?

All points are valid, but lets also look at an unconventional person named Stanley Ann Dunham. First of all, Barack Sr married a white woman (Ruth Ndesandjo)after Stanley, so he apparently wasn't too afraid of what his father thought of it. Second, Stanley also moved to Indonesia, a third world country, because she was JUST that way. She was the type who liked to thumb her nose at convention and experience the wilder side of life. A trip to meet her exotic husband's exotic tribal family would have been FABULOUS for a person of her nature. And she was 18, pregnant or not. At 18, I took on adventures I wouldn't dream of now.

So if we are going to look at improbabilities, we must also look at the possibilities as well.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

That’s true, as far as it goes. I found the point about the physical impossibilities of two students - one of them fully pregnant - taking a 100 hour series of airplane trips, and paying for it all, to be more convincing.

True, Barack Sr. wasn’t afraid enough of his father to keep him from marrying white women. BUT, he was also doing this in the USA, where he was (literally) half a world away from Onyango.