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.
Yes, it sure would.
Except, Frank Davis was an avowed Communist. So if he renounced his U.S. Citizenship as many commies did, then all bets are off.
But even if Davis didn't, Barry would have a legal problem. Like committing Fraud and violation of other pesky little Federal Laws under the false name of Barack Hussein Obama.
btw, I looked closer at those pictures. Barry's head is even shaped liked Davis'.
I agree with you...after looking at both Obama Sr. and Frank Marshall Davis, BO looks more like Malcolm X.
How is this marriage legal? Why did she need a divorce?
Any input re: different laws at that time, etc., would be appreciated.
This thread has a lot of research on it, some info I have not seen before (and I’ve been obsessive), Fred Nerks is one of FR’s primo researchers. At this point after much reading, I have no doubt that Zeros’ parentage is not what Ayers’ book and the myth presents.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2702976/posts?q=1&;page=1056#1056
I considered that. I remember hearing once that tallness is a recessive trait. I’ve never seen two short people with tall kids, that’s all. The kids tend to fall pretty close to the percentile ranks of the parents.
If you marry someone who is already married, are you really married? What about bigamy laws? Would you need to file for divorce if the marriage wasn't legitimate?
There's another poster on here who seems to seems to have an extremely in-depth knowledge of every theory about Obama's parentage and who has ruled out Frank Marshall Davis. Looking at pictures of Davis and also a known son of Davis, he points to the fact that they both have receding chins, which Obama does not.
BTW it pretty questionable whether that is a photo of Ann Dunham, as you probably know.
I see much more resemblance in obama to Malcome X than FM Davis. The old pictures of Davis don't look anything like obama.
I see a lot of his grandfather Dunham in obama’s face structure, especially the chin.
Ruth Nidestand, the followup bride....
Stanley Ann, not Shirley Ann.
You can’t divorce a bigamist; you were never legally married to him in the first place. This article is Kenyan horseshit, much like someone who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Yes, their only meeting. It was at an airport.
Yes, according to Lame Cherry, Ayers was a leftwing CIA agent.
Obama clearly got ‘none’ of his looks. . .cannot ID one feature. . .save for the narcissism; which of course, we cannot see; but ‘know it’ when we see it, anyway.
Maybe the article was written by one of these guys...
No I didn't know that.
But if it is, her 'strong chin' would explain Barry's.
In any case I don't think Barry looks like Barack Sr.
Her father was tall. Growing up in the US as an adolescent, Zero had better nutrition than Sr.
I'm a lefty and I wear my watch on my right wrist.
I am right handed and wear my watch on my left arm. I never thought about that some did not do that.
I read the Kenyan Obama was 5’4” or somewhere around there.
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