[Fred Nerks]

...as recounted by bill Ayers, constructing Obama’s life narrative and “remembered” conversations from whole cloth to protect Obama?

NO. Included in the narrative as a cover for the TRUTH in case someone else comes along and spills the beans.

The account reported by the reporter of Obama Sr. being “seven years” out of Kenya at the time is not corroborated as far as I can see. All other evidence, except that one story, points to Obama Sr. arriving in HI from Kenya in 1959 after having two children with his tribal wife, Kezia, IIRC.

WHAT 'ALL OTHER EVIDENCE'?

Here, in the second last paragraph, the son of a kenyan goat herder HAS BEEN AWAY FROM KENYA FOR SEVEN YEARS , at an interview in June 1962...

And Kezia makes a major blunder, she says her eldest was six years of age when the son of a kenyan goat-herder left Kenya:

"I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport," she says. "He asked me to take care of our then only child, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second - Rita Auma."

Which is downright IMPOSSIBLE if he left Kenya in 1955, that child would have been born in 1949, THREE YEARS before the son of a kenyan goat-herder LEFT SCHOOL!

You can't see the forest for the lies.

[Seizethecarp]

“Here, in the second last paragraph, the son of a kenyan goat herder HAS BEEN AWAY FROM KENYA FOR SEVEN YEARS , at an interview in June 1962...”

This was written by the reporter as an aside and is not even a quote.

“I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport,” she says. “He asked me to take care of our then only child, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second - Rita Auma.”

Either Kezia or the reporter is having a brain fart because Malik was born in 1958 and Rita was born in 1960.

Kezia was born in 1940, BTW, per wiki (for what its worth).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Obama#Malik_Obama

Obama Sr was supposedly born in 1936, so if he left Kenya seven years before 1962, as the reporter stated, that would be 1955 when he would have been 19 years old.

Where do you think BHO Sr. went outside Kenya in 1955 at age 19 before he turned up in HI and shows up taking courses per the U of HI transcript in 1959?

[Plummz]

I would guess the reporter wrote down the numeral “2” in his notes and mistook it for the numeral “7” when he went to type up the story later.