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Barack Obama's half-brother thrills Chinese with calligraphy demonstration
UK Telegraph ^ | DEc. 5, 2008 | Richard Spencer

Posted on 12/05/2008 10:53:28 PM PST by FocusNexus

President-elect Barack Obama's brother has been filmed on Chinese television practising the ancient art of calligraphy, to the delight of local viewers.

Mark Ndesandjo, a son of Mr Obama's Kenyan father by his third wife, lives in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, where he runs an internet business.

He keeps a low profile, and has not given press interviews either during the presidential election campaign or since his brother won a landslide victory a month ago.

He also uses his mother's maiden name as his own surname, rather than his father's.

But Mr Obama's popularity in China has led to the media and internet searching out evidence of his activities.

Mr Ndesandjo is married to a Chinese woman from the central province of Henan. His video performances, now available on Youtube, suggest he has made some progress with speaking the language, which he studied for a year at a local university.

He originally moved to the country six years ago on a US-China exchange programme, staying to work and at one point setting up a chain of barbecue joints. He began teaching piano at the orphanage not long after.

His presence in the country has not inspired as much controversy in the United States as the discovery that another half-brother was living in poverty in Kenya.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; obama; obamafamily; obamasbrother

1 posted on 12/05/2008 10:53:29 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus

Alrighty.

I guess we can all relax, now.


2 posted on 12/05/2008 11:03:32 PM PST by period end of story
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To: period end of story; FocusNexus; Salamander

I have a nephew who’s an expert at Hawaiian Nose Humming.


3 posted on 12/05/2008 11:06:50 PM PST by shibumi (...so if it's organic, where are its organs?)
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To: FocusNexus
since his brother won a landslide victory a month ago”

Oh puleeze.
Reagan (525 electoral votes (out of 538), 49 of the 50 states) was a landslide. Comrade Obama is no landslide. Plus Reagan didn't have ACORN stealing millions of votes for him like Obama did.

4 posted on 12/05/2008 11:07:34 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Step-brother.


5 posted on 12/05/2008 11:08:56 PM PST by quickquiver (No, means N O.)
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To: FocusNexus
Is it just me or does this story give anybody else the "Heebee Geebees"?

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6 posted on 12/05/2008 11:42:14 PM PST by txroadkill (www.honorandremember.org)
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To: quickquiver

No, it’s NOT step-brother.

” son of Mr Obama’s Kenyan father by his third wife”

It’s HALF-Brother. Same Father, different Mother.

“A half sibling (half brother or half sister) is a sibling with one shared biological or adoptive parent.”

“A stepsibling (stepbrother or stepsister) is a sibling with whom an individual bears no blood or equivalent adoptive relation, and is related by the marriage or relationship of one parent of the individual to one parent of the sibling.”


7 posted on 12/05/2008 11:52:05 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus

Dear Jesus

Dear Jesus! And they elected this fool????

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8 posted on 12/06/2008 3:14:53 AM PST by DooDahhhh (AMEN)
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To: FocusNexus; LucyT
LINK.

He published 3 CDs and one book. The book’s title is Observations in Africa and others. This (semi-autobiographical) book is about a young Kenyan man who immigrated to the US and lived in a metropolitan city there...

SNIP

...When I first came to Shenzhen from Florida (in the United States) two years ago, I started collecting VCRs, DVDs and pianos from my classmates in the executive MBA program in Atlanta, Georgia and donated them to the welfare center,” said Ndesandjo.

9 posted on 12/06/2008 3:53:22 AM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM)
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To: FocusNexus

The point of the article is that genius runs in the Obama family so Barrack must be a genius...true or not that is the reason you see this article


10 posted on 12/06/2008 3:56:39 AM PST by dennisw (Never bet on Islam! ::::: Never bet on a false prophet!)
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To: FocusNexus

F@g heros of the caligraphy... to die for... not.


11 posted on 12/06/2008 4:19:54 AM PST by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: FocusNexus

Do all of Obama’s relatives live out of the United States under assumed names? Did Michelle marry him as Barry Dunham, Barry Sotoro or Barry Obama, Barrack Obama? Getting kind of confusing here. Will he have settled on one name if he gets elected? Who does he travel as?

Sorry, I just expect to know who the POTUS really is.


12 posted on 12/06/2008 4:39:58 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty
Do all of Obama’s relatives live out of the United States under assumed names? Did Michelle marry him as Barry Dunham, Barry Sotoro or Barry Obama, Barrack Obama?

We have been sucked into this man's messy life story.

I don't like that. I think he has a screw loose because his mother and grandfather were nuts. He shows signs of being mental illness too if you ask me.

And yet he is being glorified on some stupid collector's plate and coins.

13 posted on 12/06/2008 7:24:14 AM PST by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: FocusNexus

Obviously, if Obama Sr. were really his father, he might still be alive. However, if FMD (CPUSA) is his real father, he is already dead too, of old age.


14 posted on 12/06/2008 8:42:13 AM PST by quickquiver (No, means N O.)
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To: quickquiver
Who was the MOTHER of this one?

Does anyone know?

Obama’s daddy was a whore. Between Obama’s mother and father, I don't know which one was worse. Both abandoned him. What a screwed up family. The bad news is that the “apple doesn't fall far from the tree”. He's worse than Clinton. This one favors his daddy's Marxist dreams.

15 posted on 12/06/2008 1:29:42 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: txroadkill
Yes, it's creepy.

We will see a parade of non-achievers made into little gods and goddesses. Even a burp will be labeled something amazing! Sigh ... .

16 posted on 12/06/2008 1:31:20 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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