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Obama Meets Half-Brother in Beijing
VOA News ^ | 11/18/2009

Posted on 11/19/2009 1:25:13 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan

U.S. President Barack Obama says he took five minutes out of his busy overseas diplomatic schedule to meet a half-brother who lives in China.

Mr. Obama told a U.S. television network that he met Mark Ndesandjo and his wife briefly Monday in Beijing, where the U.S. president held meetings with Chinese leaders this week.

The president has the same Kenyan father as Ndesandjo, who recently published a book, Nairobi to Shenzhen, describing Barack Obama Sr. as abusive.

President Obama said he does not know his half-brother very well. He said it was not a secret that his father was a troubled person, noting that he wrote about his father's alcoholism in his own book, Dreams of My Father.

Obama Sr. married Ndesandjo's mother after divorcing Mr. Obama's American mother when the president was a child. Obama Sr. died in 1982.

President Obama said his time with his father was a sad part of his history and his background, but he does not spend a lot of time "brooding over it."

Ndesandjo traveled from his home in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen to meet his half-brother. The last time they were together was at the president's inauguration in Washington last January.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhochina; bhovisit; china; ndesandjo; obama; obamafamily
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Five minutes?
1 posted on 11/19/2009 1:25:14 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
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To: penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; April Lexington; ...

~~So many worshippers, so little time ........... PING!


2 posted on 11/19/2009 1:26:36 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I doubt Barry gave this guy time of the day


3 posted on 11/19/2009 1:26:45 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: BuckeyeTexan
"President Obama said he does not know his half-brother very well."

Zer0 is quite the mensch.

4 posted on 11/19/2009 1:26:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: BuckeyeTexan

His time is very precious you know. It takes a lot of time to tear down a nation like the US. He has also shown little if any affection towards his mother or father. His wife and kids should be worried when he is kicked out of office.


5 posted on 11/19/2009 1:28:57 PM PST by RC2
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To: BuckeyeTexan

This Obama extended nation family sitcom gets sillier by the minute...


6 posted on 11/19/2009 1:29:33 PM PST by eleni121 (For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

***President Obama said his time with his father was a sad part of his history and his background, but he does not spend a lot of time “brooding over it.”***

Should his book perhaps have been entitled; *Nightmares of my Father*? by the ghost writer, Wm.Ayers.


7 posted on 11/19/2009 1:29:33 PM PST by sodpoodle (Never give up- Keep Up!!!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
HNdesandjo, who recently published a book, Nairobi to Shenzhen

by way of Brown University with a mathematics and arts degree. Then, Stanford University in Palo Alto, California for a Physics degree. After that, an MBA degree from Emory University. AA at its best

8 posted on 11/19/2009 1:31:31 PM PST by OBXWanderer
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I guess his Asian Adventure wasn’t a total waste of time and taxpayer dollars.


9 posted on 11/19/2009 1:32:11 PM PST by vortigern
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Maybe obama should have titled the book “Dreams of my drunken father”.


10 posted on 11/19/2009 1:33:00 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: sodpoodle

“Dreams of my drunken father”, ghostwritten by Prince.


11 posted on 11/19/2009 1:34:47 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Obama claims that his fathers were troubled. So was he. He needs counseling, not the presidency.
12 posted on 11/19/2009 1:36:13 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: vortigern

It was as far as I’m concerned.

All this gallavanting around the globe is what you get when you take a lazy goldbricker who never did an honest day’s work in his life, and hand him an unlimited expense account and the keys to a Custom-built Boeing 747.


13 posted on 11/19/2009 1:36:56 PM PST by Tucker39 (I Tim. 1:15b " .....Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.")
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To: Paladin2; Revolting cat!
"President Obama said he does not know his half-brother very well."

Yeah, but you gotta remember, he said the same thing about Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.

14 posted on 11/19/2009 1:37:26 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

LOL - this has gone Twilight Zone. Obama is talking about his foreign father in the news now, along with his half-brother from that foreign father?

That anyone can still assert he’s “natural born” is astounding.


15 posted on 11/19/2009 1:38:42 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Talisker

Barry got a college scholorship for foreign students under another name.


16 posted on 11/19/2009 1:41:10 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: OBXWanderer

Mark sounds like a very nice and well educated man.


17 posted on 11/19/2009 1:46:47 PM PST by yoe (Fight organized crime: Re-elect no one...)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
he does not spend a lot of time “brooding over it

Sure you don't barAck. I'm sure you put that in the lock-box, plus, you're so busy with your new toy-THE WORLD.

18 posted on 11/19/2009 1:48:58 PM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Wait, is this the guy that lives in a hut or is this a different brother


19 posted on 11/19/2009 1:49:05 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: UCANSEE2

“Dreams of My Long Legged MaqDaddy”


20 posted on 11/19/2009 1:50:49 PM PST by healy61
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