The thing I find interesting is that you NEVER hear from anybody who was a contemporary of Baraq in his younger days.
To me that is unprecedented for somebody as famous as an American President.
see the article linked in post 41. There are many accounts from his friends and those who knew him. It doesn’t appear that they knew him very well, but they did all seem to remember him.
I did meet a woman at a Christmas party who went to high school with Obama.