The "poor" Obama clan certainly did a lot of international airline travel back when it was prohibitively expensive and typically utilized by the wealthy.
“Where did he get the money for this trip?”
“The “poor” Obama clan certainly did a lot of international airline travel back when it was prohibitively expensive and typically utilized by the wealthy.”
CIA!
Flying to Kenya in 1961 would have been expensive and not so easy, but going to Hawaii and on to Indonesia and Pakistan would have been easier to do twenty years later.
It's not like everybody did it, but it's not the biggest mystery about Obama by any means.
Not to mention the month-long vacations on trains with his mother and sister, and staying in nearby Howard Johnsons.