http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1990/06/obama199006
Photo of this article at the link. Check out what it says, which is NOW said to be an error:
“He saw brutal poverty while growing up in SINGAPORE with his mother, an anthropologist, and his half-brothers and -sisters in Kenya still live hand to mouth at times.”
Is there any person in the whole wide world about whom more “mistakes” have been made while reporting? Did Barry have more than one half-sister in Kenya?
After yesterday, we can add Sally Jacobs to the list of mistake-makers. She is the one who wrote that Obama never met Uncle Omar, while Omar says he did. She interviewed Omar, btw, for her book. You’d think she’d have asked him then whether he knew Barry when they lived so close together back in the ‘80s. The story is that Barry Obama was at Harvard from 1988, so it had to be the very late ‘80s that Barry lived with Uncle Omar. There was much going on with that entire Kenyan family in the late ‘80s. You’d think that, today, Jacobs would be quite angry at having been misled. Will she, like others, have to “correct” her writings?
imo it's intentional, and that's why 'Dreams' has no chronology. You're not supposed to be able to follow anything. Take this for an example:
"For three years I lived with her and Maya in a small apartment a block away from Punahou, my mother's student grants supporting the three of us," he wrote.
It wasn't until recently when their joint tax return for 1973 came to light, that it was shown Lolo was also in Hawaii and the only dependant child they claimed was Maya.
Btw, this article from 2007 seems to be the one that started the 'her name was Shirley Dunham' kerfuffle.