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.
One theory is that Obama had a brain issue.
He has a scar. some have said the scar looks like one where you put in a shunt.
I have posted a picture that could possibly show a shunt behind his ear.
It is possible he had a big head when he was young due to an ailment.
I never noticed the huge hand of Obama Sr in the airport photo.
I came across some interesting info. I didn’t know that the famous Brinks Robbery had connections to Bernadine Dorn.
http://zombietime.com/obama_and_the_weather_underground/
One of the robbers had changed his name to Odinga.That sure is a mighty coincidence. I am not saying that robber was Obama. I am saying that the use of that name is kind of strange given how close Obama might have been to Ayers.
It is possible that Dohrn was involved with Obama’s Connecticut SSN number fraud.
I have often wondered if Ayers/Dohrn were FBI/CIA agitators. They were able to get away with a lot of things.
Pops is looking at the Stewardess walking past
“Junior” in the picture looks as if he is looking at the camera while “Senior” looks totally disinterested in camera or “son”. Hardly what you would expect of a man posing with his son for a snapshot.
I was wrong, Sr. was much shorter than what I previously said. Stanley Ann wrote on her passport application that she was 5 foot 1/2 inches. Even if she was wearing heels in this picture that was supposedly taken at the same time as the one with zero, there's no way Sr. would be considered tall. He was a shortie. Take her 5 foot 1/2 inches, add at max 3 inch heels (just for the sake of argument since we don't know if she was in heels or flats), add from the top of her head which is slightly above his eyebrows and you're looking at a 5'6 to 5'7" max.
Can someone do a digital measurement of the Obama’s heads vs. one another? Just curious.
That’s just down right freakish.
Well, you know what they say about black men and large hands... Maybe that’s how he got all his women.
How does a 5’ woman and 5’ 7” man produce a 6’ 1” offspring?
So he was a paper pusher hack - he didn't write it - he just presented it - big whoop.......reminds me of someone......
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.
OK, there is not defined timeline here but let's say it was close to 1965.....
The situation worsened when his marriage to Ruth collapsed.
Anyone have a date for that?
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.
This article ends his 'career' at around 1965 - he would have been 29 years old in '65. Then the article breezes through 17 years with barely a whisper "he liked to drink" and croaks him off at 46 - that's a mighty huge gap there to gloss over.
Oh, and he was tall? Maybe in the tall-tale department.
“Stanley Ann Dunham. Christ we can’t even get it right here...how’s anyone supposed to get real facts?”
ROFL... Wikipedia says his mother’s name is Shirley Ann. Hopefully by next November, it will not matter anymore.
Notice the watches....Both on left arm?? Is that right for lefties??
Sounds like “Rosemary’s baby” to me.
Then that would make him a natural born citizen.
You mean his father was a male prostitute?! Makes sense.
I have read that they were both in Seattle during the relevant time. Havent seen evidence that they actually knew each other, but OTOH I havent researched it.
I’ll admit the resemblance is striking.
http://israelinsider.net/profiles/blogs/is-obama-the-secret-son-of
I thought he was the subject of much teasing about his ears?
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