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Barack Obama's 'time has come' says father's (Obama, Sr.) first wife
The Telegraph ^ | 28 Aug 2008 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 04/25/2011 9:56:30 AM PDT by TennesseeGirl

...A bingo lover who follows the US election on Fox News and al-Jazeera, Mrs Obama was just 19 when her husband left her in 1959 to study in Honolulu, where he was to meet Mr Obama's mother Ann Dunham, then 17, in a Russian class at the University of Hawaii.

"My first born was two and the second one was in my belly," she said. "He told me had an American scholarship and that he would come back." When he did return in 1965 he brought with him a third wife, a white American called Ruth...

Her father had three wives so Mrs Obama never resented her husband's polygamy, she said. "He was a good man. When he wanted to marry Ann he wrote back to ask us. In Kenya, a man can have several wives so I agreed with it. Later, when I met Ann she was like a sister to me...

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: dunham; kenya; kesia; kezia; obama
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Looking back in time (2008). The woman the British press dubs BO's step-mum, Kesia. She was also quoted saying "Her father had three wives so Mrs Obama never resented her husband's polygamy, she said. "He was a good man. When he wanted to marry Ann he wrote back to ask us. In Kenya, a man can have several wives so I agreed with it. Later, when I met Ann she was like a sister to me." She also says in the article, "Mrs Obama, who flew to the United States for her stepson's wedding in 1992 and for his inauguration as a Senator just under four years ago, said she expects to be on the steps of the Capitol in Washington watching him be sworn in as President." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/2640079/Barack-Obamas-time-has-come-says-fathers-first-wife.html
1 posted on 04/25/2011 9:56:38 AM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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In Kenya, a man can have several wives so I agreed with it.

As stupid as men can be about women, women can be just as stupid about men.

2 posted on 04/25/2011 10:01:22 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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I don’t know about Hawaii at the time they got married. But in virtually all states, a marriage is not valid if you are already married and the fact that you married in another country is irrelevant.


3 posted on 04/25/2011 10:02:07 AM PDT by apillar
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To: TennesseeGirl
Her father had three wives so Mrs Obama never resented her husband's polygamy, she said. "He was a good man. When he wanted to marry Ann he wrote back to ask us. In Kenya, a man can have several wives so I agreed with it. Later, when I met Ann she was like a sister to me.

I wonder where that meeting took place.

4 posted on 04/25/2011 10:05:19 AM PDT by kabar
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I wonder if the HI birth notice was THIS lady’s baby, not Ann’s


5 posted on 04/25/2011 10:10:52 AM PDT by spacejunkie01
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“Mrs Obama never resented her husband’s polygamy”

So Barry’s father is a polygamist. Hmmmm, I bet the msm will just ignore this little fact. So was his marriage to Barry’s mother illegal going by the laws in this country?


6 posted on 04/25/2011 10:11:46 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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Nothing even sounds American about Obama.. I don’t believe he was stopped for driving black.. Go home Obama your family needs you, because we sure don’t.


7 posted on 04/25/2011 10:15:03 AM PDT by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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I wonder where that meeting took place

In the maternity hut in Kenya.

8 posted on 04/25/2011 10:15:15 AM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: kabar
I wonder where that meeting took place

In the maternity hut in Kenya.

9 posted on 04/25/2011 10:15:17 AM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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Her father had three wives so Mrs Obama never resented her husband's polygamy, she said. "He was a good man. When he wanted to marry Ann he wrote back to ask us. In Kenya, a man can have several wives so I agreed with it. Later, when I met Ann she was like a sister to me.

When was Ann in Kenya? That story has never been told, atleast NOT by the Obama camp. TheY all claim she NEVER had been to Kenya. PASSPORT RECORDS PLEASE!

10 posted on 04/25/2011 10:15:34 AM PDT by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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I don’t know about Ann, but Obama relatives have given interviews to British newspapers in the past stating Barry visited them in 1987 and 1992. See BO’s “Life in pictures at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/democrats/2071443/Barack-Obama-a-life-in-pictures.html?image=8. There’s a picture of him in Kenya with his grandmother, Sarah Obama (circa 1987).


11 posted on 04/25/2011 10:33:19 AM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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According to the article Mrs Obama flew to her “stepson’s” wedding in the US in 1992. Ann Dunham died in 1995. I guess it is likely that she did turn up to her son’s wedding. Anyone knows?


12 posted on 04/25/2011 10:35:56 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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Later, when I met Ann she was like a sister to me...
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and this happened

When ????


13 posted on 04/25/2011 10:47:11 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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When obozo takes another wife, we will have our suspicions about his religion confirmed. What will Michelle do? Promote the cause of polygamy????

Oh! Me! Oh! My!


14 posted on 04/25/2011 11:00:01 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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Obama’s father was not an American. Obama or whatever his name is cannot be president of the United States.


15 posted on 04/25/2011 11:08:35 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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Later, when I met Ann she was like a sister to me.

Not just where but when did they meet. At the time Ann (note - not Anna or Toot) was giving birth and zero passed through grandma Sarah's hands? Guess she's forgetting about the 4th sister-wife who's in Atlanta.

Fred, here's more proof of Sr. being gone from Kenya for 7 years. So, where was he?

More playing the racial card bs. Like a Senator gets pulled over by da man because he's black. "IF" it happened it couldn't have been because of what neighborhood he was trolling in and what exactly he was scouting to buy.

16 posted on 04/25/2011 11:09:45 AM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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What will Michelle do?

It's not wise to anger the Wookie!

Regards,
GtG

17 posted on 04/25/2011 11:11:50 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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she had a child a7 15? got preggo at what? maybe 14?, had another at 17? where are all these siblings?


18 posted on 04/25/2011 11:12:05 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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This story really creeps me out.


19 posted on 04/25/2011 11:14:20 AM PDT by RexBeach
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Could you imagine what a field day the press would have with this if it were a Republican President with this history?


20 posted on 04/25/2011 11:18:37 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (We live two lives, the life we learn and the life we live with after that.)
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