Barack Obama, left, is running for president. His childhood friend Keith Kakugawa, right, is homeless.
Posted on 09/13/2008 3:36:16 PM PDT by pjsbro
In his best-selling autobiography, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., writes movingly about his high school best friend, whom he calls "Ray."
Ray's real name is Keith Kakugawa. And Kakugawa's life could not have veered more starkly from that of his old friend, the presidential candidate.
Kakugawa is currently homeless in Los Angeles, sleeping in the beat-up Mazda of his friend Jason Myles. He has been in and out of prison for the past few decades, mostly on charges related to cocaine possession and dealing.
"To be honest with you, to survive, I've moved" drugs, Kakugawa says.
His relationship with Obama was like that of brothers
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Birds of a feather.....
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
STOP! This is unfair.
I can no longer distinguish ABC from Scrappleface.
Barack Obama, left, is running for president. His childhood friend Keith Kakugawa, right, is homeless.
he phoned Obama once and was Put off and avoided from then on....Obama’s compassion for others is a LIE.
he phoned Obama once and was Put off and avoided from then on....Obama’s compassion for others is a LIE.
Negative stories about the messiah? Kakugawa get under that bus!
Barack Obama [left] and Keith Kakugawa
Bet they are both similar , in that they are both sexist pigs.
These truths need to be in national campaign ads and out on the Internet for one and all to see.
MSM Crap. Leave the guy alone. Who knows if any of this is true anyway?
Odd , isn't it two people just got arrested in Pennsylvania with bags of Heroin in Obama bags. More pals of Obama? Drugs for Votes? in PA?
Hussein has/had a friend?
Who knew.
Stupid, pointless story.
I think the circumstances of any “put off” should be considered. If his friend had become a druggie enmeshed in a life of crime, I could understand not wanting to get sucked in and used for money, etc, to enable the friend’s self-destruction. BUT, if 0bama had the means he could have helped his friend get into rehab or something, but only if the friend was willing.
Let’s just not get carried away on this one. If we are going to bash 0bama for having criminal associates, we cannot also bash him for avoiding criminal associates. Just my two cents for whatever it’s worth.
Is it stupid? Maybe not.
“According to the Obama campaign, Kakugawa explicitly raised the possibility that he could make up false stories about Obama, implying he would do so if the campaign did not give him money.
That allegation infuriated Kakugawa, prompting him to speak to the Tribune after repeatedly refusing to do so.
“You must understand, I am not an extortionist,” he said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where he is living out of a car with an acquaintance after being released from a California prison on March 10. “Listen, I’m homeless. . . . I ask everyone I know for money.”
Kakugawa wouldn’t discuss his school days with Obama other than to say he considered the senator “a brother” and “wouldn’t do a damn thing to ever hurt his campaign.”
He added, “Do I know things about him that aren’t out there already? Yes, probably. But I don’t think they are the kind of things that should be out there.”
http://www.vagazette.com/chi-0703250330mar25,0,6238949.story
You can’t give a cocaine addict money. This guy sounds like a true loser.
The cautionary point to me is, that friend after friend after friend of Obama turns out to be true trash, or terrorists, or hatred filled radicals and revolutionaries. Even his pastor is a black separatist filled with hatred for the white race.
If people vote this man in, they will deserve everything they get. He will destroy America if he can.
...unless Ray is making noise that he might be willing to share some unflattering stories from his buddy days. This sounds more like a pre-emptive strike to discredit Ray in case he decides to talk.
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