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Yeah, when I read it I could barely believe it. But it’s true: the Weathermen’s “Prairie Fire” publication was named Osowatomie. It featured glorious pictures of Mao, just like those in the Obama posters that were all over the place in the last election. Complete with halo.

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Here's a related clip from a wikipedia entry to those who like hints as to the ebb and flow of history's tides and currents.

Eli Thayer, a second-term Congressman from Massachusetts, hatched the idea of an Emigrant Aid Company in the winter of 1853-4. His primary partners in the venture were Alexander H. Bullock and Edward Everett Hale, and together they set Thayer's plans in motion on March 5, 1854.

And another to bookend:

[Edward Everett] Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon published other stories in the same periodical. The best known of these was "The Man Without a Country"

And Obama, here today, is indeed the man without a country.

Born of his mom, Stanley Anne Dunham, a traveler. Her dad's parents raised his Dad in Kansas:

... The Travelers' Cafe on William St. situated between the old firehouse and the old Wichita City Hall.

That is, until 25 November 25 1926, when 8 year old Stanley Armour Dunham found his mom's body, dead of suicide. Stanley was then placed with his maternal grandparents in El Dorado, Kansas to be raised. Like Obama came to be placed with his maternal grandparents, also about the age of 8.

Obama, the traveler is searching for his roots, and came to Osawatomie, Kansas to ground them there.

There with the red legs and Weather Underground, back down the maternal line. A tree seeded from cheap terrorisms, banditry, chaos and suicide.