Posted on 11/22/2010 12:00:30 AM PST by RobinMasters
Contributing to the impression of shifting sands in his official biography, two newspaper articles from 1990 – apparently based on interviews with Barack Obama – reported that the future president left Hawaii for Indonesia when he was 2 years old, not 6 years old, as he relates in his autobiography.
On May 3, 1990, the Associated Press widely published a feature story on Obama highlighting him as the first African-American named as president of the Harvard Law review.
"Obama moved to Southeast Asia at age 2 when his parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian," the Associated Press reported. "Until the fifth grade, Obama attended Indonesian schools, where most of his friends were the sons of servants, street peddlers and farmers."
The Associated Press article was widely published throughout the United States in newspapers that typically picked up and reprinted AP stories.
Here is the screen capture of the AP report as published by the Chicago Daily Herald on May 3, 1990:
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
"...just wanted to add this piece to the puzzle and when I saw Scott’s name in this post... googled the name with 0bama and found out *my* Scott is the SAME ONE!! So I just emailed him and got this info...
I know Scott, he really DID go to school with 0bama and I trust his word. He is not the sort to just lie about it and is a really super nice guy. (for those in California... visit his Inoue Chiropractic Clinic. - However 0bama only went to school at the school for a few months and from memory seems to remember 0bama staying with his grandparents and his mom not being in Hawaii.
Checkout #156.
[Thanks, autumnraine.]
I find the various pictures of younger aka “Barry” confusing...
in re...
angles of the sun
light/sheen on people’s faces
where people in the photos are looking
the sizes of people’s heads
expressions/smiles on people’s faces
how people are dressed
So, if we go by the image background, it was near Christmas 1969, grade three.
Funny. Christmas the following year the kenyan son of a goat herder arrives for a visit...we 'see' them at the airport...
BUT zero is also shown with Lolo, SAD and Maya in Indonesia when MAYA was a tiny baby, and she was born Aug. 15, 1970
I need some time to follow this...must be missing something.
Barack Obama recalls childhood years in IndonesiaExtract from Dreams from my Father recounts Barack Obama’s time in Indonesia from 1967 to 1971
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/09/barack-obama-childhood-indonesia
That will give him no time to visit his old neighborhood in the sprawling overcrowded capital - a jumble of houses and narrow streets that has changed little since he was here from 1967 until 1971, although it is now in the shadow of luxury shopping malls and high-rise buildings.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/09/world/main7036503.shtml
AND THEN THERE’S THE ‘ADOPTED’ SISTER NO ONE KNEW ABOUT:
http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/liaobamas-adopted-sister-died-suddenly/
Read to end of page.
Begin at # 203, then # 204 , # 205 , and check out the newspaper clipping at # 206 .
Time permitting , read all of Fred Nerk's posts in this thread. Don't worry, my head is spinning too. Even a flow chart doesn't resolve the issue; there are too many lies, too many photoshopped photos.
I think that kid was on drugs (along with the rest of the family) from 1962 to at least 1980.
Nobody connected to him remembers correct dates.
Fred, I always assumed that the “child over the age of 18” mentioned in Ann and Lolo’s divorce papers were referring to Obama proving he was adopted by Lolo.
Now I think that “child over 18” was actually Lia!
Interesting question.
Ok, I will ask if this is him in any of these shots. It doesn’t look like him to me though. The only one who MIGHT resemble him is the one on the left (Obama’s right) and even that fella has the wrong ears to be Scott.
LIES LIES AND MORE LIES!
But every now and then, someone opens their mouth and says the wrong thing...remember how they tried to hide his first visit to Kenya in 1982/3? And no one mentioned that Stanley Ann went with him?
I was very fond of Barack Jr’s mother, Ann.
“She came to Kenya after Barack Snr died and she and I became great friends. She was like a sister to me.”
Seems like they forgot all about that in ‘Dreams’
Any thoughts on these date discrepancies?
Throughout this time he had written regularly to Kezia, even sending pictures of Ann and Barack Jr.
What he failed to tell his first wife was that he had also met a second new woman, an American teacher called Ruth.
Nor did he tell her, on his return to Kenya in 1965, that she had become his third wife.
Kezia said: “I’d moved to the family compound in Alego. When Barack got back, he came to see me and said, ‘I don’t have a job or a house yet. When I get settled I will come back for you.’”
But Barack Snr then lost both legs in a car crash coming back from a nightclub - and Kezia discovered the truth.
She said: “When I went to see him in the hospital I thought, ‘What is that lady in there with him for?’
“Then Barack said: ‘This is Ruth.’ Next he turned to Ruth and said: ‘I have a wife and two children.’”
NOW WHAT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER IS THAT IN HIS OWN WORDS, THE KENYAN SON OF A GOAT HERDER SAID IN 1962, HE HAD NOT BEEN BACK TO KENYA FOR SEVEN YEARS.
In this article Kezia maintains:
“Barack’s father was only a cook so it was a big sacrifice. Very soon after, we were married.”
That was January 1957. Kezia and Barack Snr set up home in Jericho, a section of Nairobi created for government employees, and began a family.
First son Roy was born in March 1958. Kezia insisted: “Barack was a good husband.”
NO WONDER ‘GRANNY’ SARAH SAID TO THE CHILDREN OF KEZIA ‘NONE OF YOU ARE HIS CHILDREN!
The kenyan son of a goat herder wasn’t in Kenya in January 1957.
LOL! Beckwith warned me a long time ago about trying to follow dates...and here I am, still doing it! ‘Dreams’ wasn’t written without chronology for no reason.
How do we know that his step mother isn’t the one lying for one reason or another. At this point, I don’t believe what any of them say. I’ve never seen such a bunch of horsesh*t in my entire life. How did this POS get in the WH? Seriously? WTF!
IT GETS WORSE!
Obama Senior left for the United States in 1959 for further studies during the famous airlifts organised by the late Planning Minister Tom Mboya.
“I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport,” she says.
“He asked me to take care of our only child then, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second child — Rita Auma.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362788/posts
WHICH STATEMENT BROUGHT ABOUT THIS FAMOUS FREEPER COMMENT:
“Something not quite right about the dates. Malik was six in 1959 when Obama senior left for Hawaii. Now, 2008, he is 50 and Obama II is 47? Someone who tracks these issues should double check, but barring some mystical event, Obama II should therefore be around 42. How did Barack II gain 5 years on Malik?”
(I think I can answer that now, Malik was 55 in 2008, because he was born in 1953, he WAS six years old in 1959, but she never saw anyone off at any airport; she was married to the older brother, Joseph, who went to school with Barak and who was two years older. His arabic name is YUSUF.
And YUSUF wasn’t born circa 1950’s, as wiki wants us to believe, he was born in 1933, two years before the son of the kenyan goat-herder - who, in 1962, hadn’t been back to Kenya for seven years.)
Y’all will be happy to hear that’s gunna be my last word on it!
Yeah, I call it the "Rubberman" photo. Look at the photo below. You notice the suit of the grandfathers left shoulder isn't creased - indicating that his arm isn't bent. That would put his elbow at about the same place as the red dot. Now the yellow line shows from the shoulder to the elbow and the elbow to the wrist. If you were to straighten out that line, he must be "Rubberman". His arm would go past the left shoulder of the grandmother !!!
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