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Half brother [in Red China] congratulates Obama
Shenshen Daily ^ | 11/6/2008 | Wang Yuanyuan

Posted on 11/10/2008 8:59:06 PM PST by bruinbirdman

Obama’s half brother and six-year resident of Shenzhen, sent his congratulations to Obama yesterday immediately after the U.S. Democratic senator won the 2008 presidential election.


Mark Ndesandjo (2nd from left) teaches children to play the piano at
Shenzhen Social Welware Center. This picture was featured in the Shenzhen
Daily on March 11, 2004.

Ndesandjo was very happy about his half brother’s victory and sent him his best wishes, Ndesandjo’s best Chinese friend and business partner Sui Zhengjun told the Shenzhen Daily yesterday.

“We sent text messages to each other after the election, and he was very happy with the outcome,” Sui said. “He, like many Americans, has very high hopes about Obama’s concept of change and hopes Obama can really bring changes to America. He told me he was very satisfied as not only Obama’s half brother but also as an American.”

Ndesandjo “disappeared” from the public after media reported at the end of July that he was Obama’s half brother and was a businessman living in Shenzhen. Sui refused to say where Ndesandjo was at the moment, suggesting that the First Half Brother might go back to America to avoid the media.

Ndesandjo’s company, an Internet-based consulting company, Worldnexus Ltd., in Nanshan District is still under operation despite a July Sunday Times report that Ndesandjo said it was not trading and might restart next year.

Sui, the register of the company, confirmed that Ndesandjo, the company’s former senior partner, had left the company at the beginning of this year for personal reasons but would come back in 2009.

“The company is still under normal operations. It will not be affected by any person’s coming and going,” Sui said.

Ndesandjo’s mobile was switched off yesterday morning and turned on later after the election was finished. However, several calls by the Shenzhen Daily went unanswered.

After Ndesandjo’s identity was revealed, the wine producers of Shenyang Dragon Medical Co. Ltd., Liaoning Province, invited Ndesandjo to be their product spokesman. Ndesandjo turned down the offer, saying that he would think about it after the election.

Sui said Ndesandjo still had no intention to do so, adding that his friend was “not that kind of person and preferred a quiet life.”

Ndesandjo is the son of Obama’s late father and his third wife. He came to Shenzhen from Florida in 2002 and is now engaged to a Chinese woman from Henan Province.

The Shenzhen Daily first wrote about his life in a March 11, 2004 report. The story, titled “More than just donating,” described his charity activities for orphans at Shenzhen Social Welfare Center.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho2008; obama; obamafamily; obamatransitionfile
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
So all of the old man's kids except Hussein Obama were born in Kenya? Riiiiiiiiiiight.

yitbos

21 posted on 11/10/2008 9:41:51 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: bruinbirdman

Gets more unbelievable as the days wear on.


22 posted on 11/10/2008 9:52:15 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: americanophile

I understand that. Shenzen is a beautiful new city on the mainland side of Hong Kong. I am just wondering how all these Obama children got scattered to so many corners of the earth.


23 posted on 11/10/2008 9:56:21 PM PST by laxcoach
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To: bruinbirdman
In the next elections will we all be hopping up and down chanting “Obama, Obama, Obama...”

When will he start wearing a beret?

I know they check for guns, but are machetes allowed at political conventions? It seems to be acceptable in Africa and we are multi cultural and open minded now.

Hell, why not? Welcome to the banana republic of America.

http://www.nmatv.com/nvembed.swf?key=5b314a80bdcb024f8e42

24 posted on 11/10/2008 9:56:36 PM PST by Red6
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To: laxcoach

Got me.


25 posted on 11/10/2008 9:57:39 PM PST by americanophile
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To: lookout88

I said it on a thread about a week ago; half the world is a half-relative of Obama!


26 posted on 11/10/2008 9:59:07 PM PST by CaptRon (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: fso301

“Is Shenzhen in one of those muslim parts of China? “

No. It’s the mainland side of Hong Kong. It is a relatively new city, but huge by American standards. It’s also very clean and pretty compared to most Chinese cities because it is so new.


27 posted on 11/10/2008 10:00:38 PM PST by laxcoach
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To: ZOOKER

The One doesn’t seem to care about them, why should we. He doesn’t even visit his aunt in Boston. Would he care if they were kidnapped? His biggest concern would be the bad PR.


28 posted on 11/10/2008 10:01:24 PM PST by CaptRon (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: fso301

Oh grow up! You really just showed your ignorance with that comment. I am all for being against Obama’s policies and political philosophies, but with that snide remark about Shenzen and Islam you just proved the stereotypical dumb redneck image yet again.

BTW, Shenzhen is a magnificent city in the Guandong province of China, near Hong Kong. There is probably more free market capitalism going on in Chinese cities like Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai these days than in all of Europe combined.


29 posted on 11/10/2008 10:04:39 PM PST by medscribe
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To: CaptRon
"why should we."

Well, there's the uncle politico in Kenya who wants an autonomous socialist/Islamic state who Hussein campaigned for as a Senator.

Then there's the half-bro living in Red China.

Those could be of concern. Both have used the fact that they are related to Hussein for personal gain.

yitbos

30 posted on 11/10/2008 10:12:24 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

There’s at least one half-sister. Maybe more.


31 posted on 11/10/2008 10:22:13 PM PST by mombrown1 (PA Coordinatior SAS The Second Amendment is the reset button for the Constitution)
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To: bruinbirdman

This one actually looks like zero.


32 posted on 11/10/2008 10:22:48 PM PST by mombrown1 (PA Coordinatior SAS The Second Amendment is the reset button for the Constitution)
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To: medscribe
medscribe

What's with the hostilities? fso301 asked a simple question.

which required a simple answer. Not all of us Freepers are China experts and don't deserve to be attacked for asking a simple high school geography question.

33 posted on 11/10/2008 10:40:58 PM PST by RedMonqey (Embracing my "Inner Redneck")
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To: bruinbirdman

A different article about the brother:

Obama’s half-brother is a reluctant star in China
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127586/posts


34 posted on 11/11/2008 12:00:00 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: medscribe

From what I understand, there are areas of China with a high proportion of muslims, and they actually have what their government calls a “muslim problem”.


35 posted on 11/11/2008 6:12:25 AM PST by I Buried My Guns
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To: medscribe
Oh grow up! You really just showed your ignorance with that comment.

Try working on using your brain more than your emotions.

36 posted on 11/11/2008 6:21:16 AM PST by fso301
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To: lookout88

In 1964, Obama Senior married his third wife, an American-born teacher called Ruth, who met at Harvard while still legally married to both Kezia and Ann and who followed him to Africa. She now runs the up-market Maduri kindergarten in Nairobi.

Senior had two children with Ruth.

One of them is Obama’s half-brother, Mark Ndesandjo, who has been helping to promote cheap Chinese exports in a low-profile business career while the Democratic senator has been winning worldwide fame in his race for the White House.

He has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid public attention and his family links remain unknown to most of his acquaintances in Shenzhen, a border boomtown in southern China where he has lived since 2002.

Obama refers to Mark as “my brother” and says he was the only uncontested heir after their father, a Kenyan, died in a car crash in 1982.

Mark’s internet-based company, Worldnexus Ltd., provides corporate communications and website design to Chinese firms seeking customers in English-speaking markets, of which the United States is the biggest.

Worldnexus is not registered to conduct business in Shenzhen and officials at the city’s commercial administration bureau said this raised potential issues of taxation and compliance with the law by its customers.

Ndesandjo, who had an elite education in the United States, collecting a degree from Brown University, a masters in physics from Stanford and an MBA from Emory, did not share Obama’s emotional view of his roots.

Obama painted a disappointed picture of his half-brother in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, in which he celebrated his own return to Kenya and rediscovery of his African inheritance.

At a rather tense lunch, Obama quoted “Mark” — his family name is never given away in the book — as saying Kenya was “just another poor African country” to which he felt little attachment.

Mark added: “there’s not much work for a physicist, is there, in a country where the average person doesn’t have a telephone.”

According to Obama’s account, Mark looked him in the eye and said: “You think that somehow I’m cut off from my roots, that sort of thing. Well, you’re right.”

“At a certain point I made the decision not to think about who my real father was. He was dead to me even when he was still alive. I knew that he was a drunk and showed no concern for his wife and children. That’s enough.”

Barack Obama senior fathered eight children by four different women.

Obama has described Mark as “a black man of my height and complexion with a bush Afro and horn-rimmed glasses” who was studying physics at Berkeley during Obama’s 1987 visit.

Obama wrote that Mark didn’t want to ask himself a lot of questions about the meaning of racial identity, dismissing the idea with the words: “life’s hard enough without all that excess baggage.”

Asked if he was quoted accurately in the book, Ndesandjo did not respond.

Obama wrote that on parting, “we exchanged addresses and promised to write, with a dishonesty that made my heart ache.”

Two decades after that encounter, the extended and complex Obama family is bound to come under further scrutiny after the US election.

“That not enough has been written about his family is strange,” wrote columnist Roger Cohen in the New York Times last March.”

Of course Cohen and his fellow Obama sycophants could have corrected that at any time - - but they didn’t.

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaFamily.htm


37 posted on 11/11/2008 9:00:08 AM PST by Beckwith (Typical white person)
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To: fso301

Try cracking open a geography book before asking such an asinine question.


38 posted on 11/11/2008 8:29:18 PM PST by medscribe
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