” calls into question the story his parents were married “
On page 22 of “ Dreams From My Father “ Barry or Bar as he was also called,
goes into great detail about how he’s pretty sure that Dunham and Obama were not married, but, he never really had the
courage to explore the “ murky “ situation.
And then after writing “ there’s is no record of a real wedding “ no family in attendance, no relatives informed, his grandparents did not go,
no flowers, no ring , no pictures ,
no cake, no documentation-
he says they were married in a civil ceremony by a Justice of the Peace.
It’s a very odd and contradictory paragraph.
I wonder why his editor at Three Rivers Press did not pick up on the contradictions.
I doubt most Americans hold it against Obama if his parents were not married especially since he wrote that he’s pretty sure they weren’t married ..before he said they were.
In the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Jan 6, 2005, Obama on fire in political world.
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2005/01/06/news/index8.html
Obama is mentioned as Punahou School alumnus. (doesn’t mention where he was born.)
Obama is the son of a Kenyan economist who was the first African to study at the East-West Center, and a student from Kansas, who met at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. (no mention of marriage)
The couple divorced when Obama was 2. His mother then married another EWC student, an Indonesian who moved the family to his native Jakarta. (Obama was 3 when his parents divorced. According to this article, Obama would have been 4 when Lolo and Stanley Ann married.)
Obama moved to the mainland after graduating in 1979. (no mention of Obama using Hawaii address to register for selective service.)
He didn’t even write the book.