“And I will ask you again, when did he arrive in the US? SHOW ME.”
The newspaper story posted in comment #988 was written by Shurei Kirozawa and reports on Obama’s arrival in 1959. Kirozawa reports that Obama came as a lone Kenyan with two other foreign students and not part of an airlift. The later airlift is irrelevant.
Kirozawa says of Obama:
“He clerked several years in the capital city of Nairobi to save enough for college education and picked the University of Hawaii when he read in an American magazine about its racial tolerance.”
This reporting of Obama’s three years in Nairobi immediately before leaving for Hawaii is consistent with and thus corroborates numerous other accounts including Kezia’s in the Daily Mail, a time when he fathered two children who are very much in evidence.
Am hunting for an article from way back regarding his acceptance at U of HI. IIRC It said he had applied to thiry and was accepted by one. Have found two articles that say he applied to fifty....still looking for the one that states he was only accepted by one.
Can you check out the archives at Stanford by internet?
In 1959, Obama Sr. received a scholarship in economics through a program organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya. The program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students.[21][22][23] (Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, and Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Sr.'s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University. Funds provided the following year by John F. Kennedy's family paid off old debts of the project and subsidized student stipends, thereby indirectly benefiting Obama Sr. and other members of the 1959 group of scholarship holders. During the 2008 presidential campaign, his son misspoke, saying that the Kennedys organized the initial 1959 student airlift, an error subsequently acknowledged by a campaign spokesman.)[21] When Obama Sr. left for America, he left behind his baby son, Roy, and his young wife, Kezia, who was pregnant with their daughter, Auma