Posted on 04/27/2010 4:35:01 PM PDT by bushpilot1
"According to the family, Obama's father travelled to America to study at the University of Hawaii in 1959.
While there, he worked for an oil company and married his second wife, a white woman, named Anna Toot, and their union produced Barack Obama Jr.
Obama's book says Obama Snr left his family in Hawaii after winning a scholarship to study in Harvard when his son was two years old.
The marriage later broke up after Anna's father opposed it, according to Mama Sarah.
"Anna's father was furious about the marriage and threatened to have Obama Snr expelled from the university. Our son sent us letters, pleading that we intervene to save the marriage," remembers Sarah."
(Excerpt) Read more at allafrica.com ...
Would have to be a typo, I reckon 'gas station' - and it looks like they had a jewish name, probably from the german Baecker, changed it to Baker when they arrived in the US.
Apparently we have to wait for a census to be available before we can find Ruth shown as their daugther. I don't expect to find anything unusual there, she has obviously been careful of her privacy.
The Dunhams were in Wichita when the most advanced bombers were being made: B-29s (not B-17s). The B-52 started its production in Wichita and then its production was moved to Seattle.
Interesting how the family moved between these two locations without having connections to Seattle at all.
Spys? Or counter-spys?
And as a reward did they get go to Hawaii?
Where some communist-connected black man (two choices) impregnated their daughter?
Actually ANNA is a Palindrome and TOOT is also a Palindrome.
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