[freespirited]

In the autobiography, Obama related a story his mother allegedly told him: "When your father graduated from UH (University of Hawaii), he received two scholarship offers. One was to the New School, here in New York. The other one was to Harvard. The New School agreed to pay for everything – room and board, a job on campus, enough to support all three of us. Harvard just agreed to pay tuition.

This explanation has never rung true with me. Stanley Anne was very bright, hard-working, and a feminista. If she had wanted to be with Obama Sr. she could have found a job in Cambridge that would have enabled her to support them while he finished his doctorate.

[LucyT]

David wrote:

"For purposes of evidence this is a pretty clear confirmation of Fred Nerk's long term views about timing.

"In June of 1962, he (0bama, Senior) had been in the US for seven years—i.e., since 1955 when he would have been 19 years old.

"That in turn would refute the story about the earlier wife and child among a number of other things."

[Thanks, David.]

[The Comedian]

It's almost as if...he isn't...one of us...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[x]

1962 Obama articles don't mention wife, son

Of course not. That would have cut back on Sr.'s dating possibilities.