Posted on 11/14/2009 5:50:47 PM PST by bruinbirdman
As President Barack Obama begins his China visit, his half brother who lives there reveals that when he was a child their father was a violent drunk
The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is a world away from Washington DC.
The booming border town and the staid American capital are both home to members of the Obama family. That, though, is where the similarities end, because while Barack Obama resides in the splendour of the White House and is perhaps the most recognisable person on the planet, his younger half-brother Mark lives anonymously in a rented two-bedroom flat in Shenzhen's suburbs.
Now, on the eve of his older sibling's first-ever visit to China, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo has emerged from the shadows to reveal the disturbing truth about the late Barack Obama Sr, his and President Obama's father.
Last week, Mr Ndesandjo published an autobiographical novel, Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Tale of Love In The East. It paints a shocking picture of his abusive and alcoholic father, one that is at odds with the man portrayed in Dreams From My Father, President Obama's best-selling 1995 memoir.
"I can remember my father hitting my mother and me. They're memories I don't like to dwell on because it's very painful for me," said Mr Ndesandjo, who has lived in China for seven years.
"I had a very difficult early childhood and there were things that happened to me that really hardened me."
In his book, Mr Ndesandjo describes a father who was a heavy drinker and who began to abuse his wife, verbally and physically, soon after they were married. Their son witnesses his mother running, screaming, into the night to escape being beaten.
"There were some thumps as of someone falling," reads one passage. "His father's angry
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The First Father...
What a prince of a man...
Really?
Marshall Davis was an abusive drunk?
Huh. How bout that.
Billy Carter Redux
Billy Carter Redux
“Mark Obama” ??
Dysfunctionality is an Obama Family Value
All together now:
“The Oh-bom-ah Fam-ah-lee”
(Snap, Snap)
He lost his job so he just decided to move to Red China?
yitbos
You know, I realize we aren’t supposed to ever utter B.O. and Hitler in the same sentence, but Hitler (and Stalin) had abusive fathers. Must be one of the prerequisites for sociopathy and megalomania.
Hmmmmmmm. I know DAMNED WELL Zero is a narcissist.....but is he also a codependent?
http://www.drirene.com/codepend1.htm
Interesting story. Obama’s brother donated 15% of his book earnings to charity. TOTUS directed his book proceeds toward destroying the U.S.
No wonder the Weakling is always apologizing.... he’s using the only defense he knows... trying to keep the family peace, so he applies it to Foreign Policy.
So is this going to be his excuse for becoming an America-hating Marxist???
Was it confirmed that this guy is related to 0bama? How do the media know he isn’t playing them?
NOT HARD ENOUGH!
Why is this fellow so whitish? which member of Oba Sr’s harem was his mother?
Oh this is so much Bravo Sierra. Everybody knows that muslims don’t drink and that muslims are non-violent. Heck they don’t even go to strip clubs. And they are certainly very tolerant of other peoples religion.
/do I hafta?
So the compassionate caring communist, wasn't.
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