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 Kenyattas Government. Always smartly dressed, Barrack Sr. was the embodiment of success.
He came from a poor family near Lake Victoria. Africas 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 Seniors 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 governments 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.
reminds me of how clinton got
away with his paternal claims.
i don’t think he is sure who
gets to claim fatherhood.
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.
Photo shopped!
“Celebrated life fully” means that he boinked as many dumb white chicks as he could bamboozle with his “sophisticated African Commie” spiel.
You could open a can of peas with that chin.
A chip off the old Barack!
"and culminated in Ann filing a divorce in 1961, which Obama Sr did not contest???
Jr looks like he’s about 10 YO in that pic. Did dear ol’ dad come back for a visit?
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.
That is the first time I have read where someone referred to him as being “tall”.
There is no denying that Obama Jr. bears a strong resemblance to his real father.
Obama is on record of having visited with his father. At what age was his last visit?
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...
Sounds like the perfect husband and father.....
.....Definitely the perfect role model for a Present...
I think calling Stanley Ann a beauty is more troubling.
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.
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?
It looks like the head of zero is photoshopped.
A - They were both easy rolls for black muslim communists.
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