Blast from the past...
Barack Obama visited Pakistan stayed with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, who are the Chandoo Brothers?
From 2008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2095574/posts
Thanks for the link to the 2008 thread. In light of Chandoo’s radical beliefs, I can understand why Obama didn’t really want to talk about the trip to Pakistan. People wonder how Obama bankrolled that trip, but it sounds like Chandoo himself might have paid at least part of Obama’s expenses. Unless I misunderstood the story, Chandoo stayed with Obama & mother in Indonesia for 3 weeks and then the two of them went to Pakistan to visit his family.
If the parents were filthy rich, they might have encouraged/arranged for this trip, i.e., “if you come visit us in Pakistan, we’ll be happy to pay for your friend Obama to go see his mother in Indonesia on the way” etc. And there’s nothing in Obama’s character that suggests he would have been reticent about accepting such financial help.
Anyway, I think the account of meeting young Obama in 1980 is interesting and very illuminating. But if I were the author, I personally wouldn’t want to own up to being the person who set Obama on the path to legitimacy and the WH. I’d be deeply embarrassed by how things had turned out—although for all we know he and Obama both are secretly reveling in seeing America brought to her knees.