Obama’s dad got a grant from a liberal organization.....lets explore that a little.
Obama is lying about his father writing all those letters. He included that in his Berlin speech too and i researched that point. Here is from Michael Barone:
Michael Dobbs checked out Obama’s claims about his father’s American education after his speech to the black civil rights leaders in Selma in 2007.
“In the late 1950s, there was no university in Kenya, and educational opportunities for Africans were limited. The British colonial government opposed (Tom) Mboya’s efforts to send talented young Kenyans to the United States for an education, arguing that there was a perfectly good university, Makerere College, in neighboring Uganda. The U.S. State Department supported the British and turned down Mboya’s requests for assistance.
During his 1959 trip to the United States, the 29-year-old Mboya raised enough money for scholarships for 81 young Kenyans, including Obama Sr., with the help of the African-American Students Foundation. Records show that almost 8,000 individuals contributed. Early supporters included baseball star Jackie Robinson, who gave $4,000, and actors Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.
There was enormous excitement when the Britannia aircraft took off for New York with the future Kenyan elite on board. After a few weeks of orientation, the students were DISPATCHED to universities across the United States to study subjects that would help them govern Kenya after the departure of the British. Obama Sr. was interested in economics and WAS SENT to Hawaii, where he met, and later married, a Kansas native named Ann Dunham. Barack Jr. was born in August 1961.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032902031_2.html?nav=hcmodule
So he was picked by Mboya, the students were DISPATCHED (again probably by Mboya) across the US and Obama Sr. was SENT to the University of Hawaii. It had nothing to do with the American Dream but a lot to do with a Kenyan SOCIALIST Dream!