[kenavi]

He ended up with a degree from Harvard. All things considered that’s not that bad, particularly for a guy from Kenya in those days.

Not only that, on a student visa he took his pregnant girlfriend with him to Kenya just in time to give birth to their son, came back to Hawaii together, and covered up in small-town Hawaii the truth of their son's birth so completely, that to this day no local gossip has ever stepped forward with the truth.

A veritable Svengali he was!

[muawiyah]

Could be ~ I think the baby daddy was a would-be mover and shaker ~ at the TOP EDGE of African society in those days.

He ended up with TWO, not just one, white wives. He definitely understood status symbols.

Now, regarding the wives, no one said much about the others, but I have this book on weaving written by Obama's mother. It's a very good book. She was hardly an idiot.