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Obama Senior celebrated life fully but died miserable
(Nairobi, Kenya) Daily Nation ^ | April 23, 2011 | Joe Khamisi

Posted on 04/24/2011 5:53:41 AM PDT by Zakeet

I personally knew Obama Sr during his days as a middle level economist in Kenyatta’s Government. Always smartly dressed, Barrack Sr. was the embodiment of success.

He came from a poor family near Lake Victoria. Africa’s largest water mass, went to a tin-roofed school with no running water, but still managed to reach the pinnacle of intellectual life at Harvard University in the US, where he received his advanced degree.

At the university of Miami at Minoa, he was the first African student to be enrolled there for undergraduate studies, and therefore, became the centre of attraction.

Tall and dark with horn-rimmed spectacles and a deep baritone voice, Barrack was not only boastful about his achievement, but was patriotically African.

In an interview with The Washington Post soon after his arrival, he talked of his desire to study business administration, and of his hope of one day returning to Kenya to help with its transition from tribal customs to a modern economy.

Neil Abercrombie, who later became a district congressman, described Obama Sr. as brilliant, opinionated, and avuncular.

During his undergraduate years at the University of Hawaii, he married Ann Durham, a Kansas-born woman who was studying Russian at the same institution.

Ann was unaware that her husband was already married at home to Kezie Aoko when he was only 18 years, and that he had left behind two children. No wonder, the marriage did not last, and culminated in Ann filing a divorce in 1961, which Obama Sr did not contest.

By that time, the future President had already been born, and Obama Sr had moved to Cambridge for his masters degree where he met another white woman, Ruth Nidesand.

Unlike many other Kenyan students who get mesmerised by the fast pace of American life and decide to extend their stay, the young economist made good his promise, and returned home in 1965, two years after independence.

Ruth, an American-born educationist — whom Obama described as a “white woman with a long jaw and graying hair” followed Obama Sr to Nairobi, where they married and stayed together for seven years.

Like with his earlier marriage to Durham, the relationship with Ruth was turbulent.

“Obama Senior’s marriage to Ruth was not a happy one. Like his father, although charming, generous and extraordinarily clever, Obama Senior was imperious, cruel and given to boasting about his brain and his wealth,” said Philip Ochieng, a friend who was also a beneficiary of the Tom Mboya scholarships.

In the corridors of government where he served as a senior economist, Obama Sr was both envied and frowned upon by Nairobians because of his financial liquidity, and because of his obsession for beauties especially of the Caucasian breed.

His turning point, however, came in 1965 when, as a top bureaucrat at the Treasury, he issued a critical analysis of the government’s economic framework called “African Socialism and its Applicability to Planning in Kenya.” an ambitious document that had been authored by Mboya.

He disagreed with proposals to nationalise state corporations, as well as the manner in which the government planned to conduct trade, both locally and internationally.

Criticisms of the government by anyone, leave alone a serving civil servant, was unheard of. The statement generated a lot of heat in the corridors of power.

Accusations of insubordination and disrespect were bandied around. Soon thereafter, Obama Sr was sacked, throwing him into a long period of depression that saw his drinking habit overwhelm his desire to be a useful citizen.

The situation worsened when his marriage to Ruth collapsed. Jobless and down in the gutter, he was killed in a road accident on November 24, 1982 at the prime age of 46, as he navigated home from a boozing spree.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhosr; kenya; obamabackground; obamasr
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To: silverleaf

reminds me of how clinton got
away with his paternal claims.
i don’t think he is sure who
gets to claim fatherhood.


21 posted on 04/24/2011 6:19:35 AM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: faucetman

and married Lolo March of 1964..according to her passport file.

When Lolo was asked what day he got married he told the interviewer he didn’t remember. Seen in the FOIA file.


22 posted on 04/24/2011 6:21:13 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Steven Tyler

Photo shopped!


23 posted on 04/24/2011 6:25:36 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: Zakeet

“Celebrated life fully” means that he boinked as many dumb white chicks as he could bamboozle with his “sophisticated African Commie” spiel.


24 posted on 04/24/2011 6:28:54 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Steven Tyler
Juniors head is the same length as Senior, but junior is half as tall

You could open a can of peas with that chin.

25 posted on 04/24/2011 6:35:05 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Put Obie in a dress and call him "The Last Queen of Scotland".)
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To: nhwingut

A chip off the old Barack!


26 posted on 04/24/2011 6:38:21 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: LucyT; STARWISE
Obama Sr. ping!

"and culminated in Ann filing a divorce in 1961, which Obama Sr did not contest???

27 posted on 04/24/2011 6:39:12 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: nhwingut

Jr looks like he’s about 10 YO in that pic. Did dear ol’ dad come back for a visit?


28 posted on 04/24/2011 6:39:58 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Zakeet
Veeeeeery Interesting photo.
I did a 'Tin Eye" photo search and found the following from an old FR post..

Now to me, Barry looks nothing like Barack Sr.
But he DOES LOOK LIKE ... Frank Marshall Davis!

It's his mouth, lips and smaller & higher nose position from the top lip. So I think Frank Marshall Davis is Barry's 'Baby Daddy' (god, I HATE that term).

It would ealso xplain why he's hiding his real long form BC.
Because 'Barack Obama II' is a fraud.

29 posted on 04/24/2011 6:43:47 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: Zakeet

That is the first time I have read where someone referred to him as being “tall”.


30 posted on 04/24/2011 6:47:21 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: silverleaf
the family resemblance is clear

There is no denying that Obama Jr. bears a strong resemblance to his real father.


31 posted on 04/24/2011 6:47:31 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: Zakeet

Obama is on record of having visited with his father. At what age was his last visit?


32 posted on 04/24/2011 6:48:37 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin '12... Accept No Other)
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To: Zakeet

The Misinformation campaign is in full swing...the obots are truly in panic mode.

Let’s see, now come stories about SAD, BHO Sr. Timing I guess is everything...


33 posted on 04/24/2011 6:49:35 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Zakeet
Obama Senior was imperious, cruel and given to boasting about his brain and his wealth

Sounds like the perfect husband and father.....

.....Definitely the perfect role model for a Present...

34 posted on 04/24/2011 6:50:12 AM PDT by SteamShovel (The RADIATION PIMPS...are RATS)
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To: faucetman

I think calling Stanley Ann a beauty is more troubling.


35 posted on 04/24/2011 6:51:07 AM PDT by angcat (DEAR GOD PLEASE SAVE US!)
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To: silverleaf
My first thought to - doesn't even come close to a resemblance!
36 posted on 04/24/2011 7:01:19 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Mercat

I'm wondering about this photo. What's with Sr.'s giant left hand? Look at those fingers sticking out from zero's arms. Compare those looooooong ones to his right hand. And the looooong finger nails compared to the thumb nail on the other hand. Sr. was a short man (5'10" or such?) but sign that hand up for the NBA. Sure one is straight and the other is curved and holding a cig, but come on this is another case of photoshopping.

37 posted on 04/24/2011 7:02:58 AM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Steven Tyler

I see what you mean, I know next to nothing about faking photos but I would bet ten dollars against a nickel that is a photoshop job and the “boy” in the photo is not the same person who is now the resident in the white house. He does appear to be the same “boy” seen in other photos which are supposedly pictures of the current resident as a youth. I am beginning to wonder just how deep this goes. Does anyone really have an idea who he is and where he came from?


38 posted on 04/24/2011 7:03:48 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: Steven Tyler

It looks like the head of zero is photoshopped.


39 posted on 04/24/2011 7:05:11 AM PDT by savagesusie
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To: angcat
Q - Why are US voters like Stanley Ann Dunham?

A - They were both easy rolls for black muslim communists.


40 posted on 04/24/2011 7:07:02 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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