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Who Was Barack Obama’s Father?
NEWSWEEK ^ | July 11, 2011 | by Andrew Romano

Posted on 07/11/2011 6:41:08 PM PDT by Fred Nerks

To read Sally H. Jacobs’s new biography of Barack Hussein Obama Sr. is to realize that his son, the president, spent much of his life reaching for a shadow he was lucky never to catch. Early in The Other Barack, a childhood playmate recalls how Obama Sr. would frequently snap at him and shout, “You don’t know what you are talking about.” A few chapters later, the editor of the University of Hawaii literary magazine describes Obama Sr. barreling into his office, unprovoked, to declare that a particular poem wasn’t “worth a damn.” Back in Nairobi, says one government official, Obama Sr. would “slam his fist on the table” and claim that a rival “knows nothing about math or economics”; he would go on to describe other colleagues as “intellectual dwarfs.” As college friend and current Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie tells Jacobs, Obama Sr. could never “contain his irritation with people who were not as facile as he, and he did not hesitate to say so.”

The president, of course, has a healthy ego. But this is something else. Every shred of available evidence—which Jacobs, a veteran reporter, spent two years and 75,000 miles of intercontinental travel ably assembling—suggests that the senior Obama was an unmitigated jerk: a coxcombish souse who forced friends to cover his abundant bar tabs and repeatedly broke his legs in boozy car crashes; an uncooperative contrarian who was promptly fired from, or sidelined at, every job he ever had; a compulsive philanderer who ditched his first wife, Kezia Nyandega, when he moved to America, abandoned the president’s mother, Ann Dunham, when he left Hawaii for Harvard, and lured his third wife, Ruth Baker, to Kenya only to beat, berate, and cheat on her.

And yet, if Obama Sr. were only a jerk, there wouldn’t be...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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To: biggredd1

Paul Robeson was old enough to be Obama’s great grandfather! Do you mean Frank Marshall Davis (a little younger than Robeson) who did spend time with O?


21 posted on 07/11/2011 7:59:01 PM PDT by Mach9
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To: Fred Nerks; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; Plummz; Bikkuri; Fantasywriter; ColdOne; ...
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Who Was Barack 0bumma’s Father?

. . . . Check out article, then read # 1 through # 20. Interesting comments.

Thanks, Fred Nerks. Just yesterday I was reading about Paul Robeson.

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22 posted on 07/11/2011 7:59:23 PM PDT by LucyT
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. . . . . . Paul Robeson, 1942:


23 posted on 07/11/2011 8:04:08 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT
. . . . . Paul Robeson:


24 posted on 07/11/2011 8:07:13 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Fred Nerks

Stanley Armour Dunham

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TahXQ2WiF0s/SRCK27UwDlI/AAAAAAAAHQY/ATtVOY36wug/s400/06+Barack+Obama+Family+Photos.jpg


25 posted on 07/11/2011 8:10:33 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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To: Fred Nerks


26 posted on 07/11/2011 8:13:21 PM PDT by hamboy (For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?)
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To: hamboy

It wasn’t either of the two guys on the bottom.


27 posted on 07/11/2011 8:15:05 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: hamboy

"Frank Marshall Davis . . . Barack Obama, Sr. . . . Malcolm X . . .
Will the REAL father of 'Barack Obama' please stand up?"

28 posted on 07/11/2011 8:22:36 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (To Tell the Truth to Power.)
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To: Auntie Mame
Wow, we now know more about Obama’s father than we know about Obama himself.

IF, in fact, that is his father.

29 posted on 07/11/2011 8:25:13 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Cheetahcat

30 posted on 07/11/2011 8:27:18 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Fred Nerks

As they say the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.


31 posted on 07/11/2011 8:27:47 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: Auntie Mame

Source on the Wednesday night drunkenness rumors?


32 posted on 07/11/2011 8:29:19 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: aruanan


33 posted on 07/11/2011 8:32:28 PM PDT by hamboy (For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?)
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To: Fred Nerks

It’s starting to feel like masochism to expose myself to any more of this Obama “lore.”


34 posted on 07/11/2011 8:36:25 PM PDT by giotto
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To: Charles Henrickson

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


35 posted on 07/11/2011 8:37:25 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Wow, a veritable pr-ck off the old c-ck.


36 posted on 07/11/2011 8:37:42 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: hamboy
Is that his father? I doubt it but it sure looks like his wife beard.
37 posted on 07/11/2011 8:37:55 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( 1400 years of existence & Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curry)
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To: aruanan

Why do you think it wasn’t Malcom X?

Next question:

Who’s his mother.


38 posted on 07/11/2011 8:47:47 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: mojitojoe

I was wardriving and forgot to put “whoa!” Definitely not the father, bottom right corner has exclamation point...


39 posted on 07/11/2011 8:59:07 PM PDT by hamboy
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To: LucyT

The author of the book isn’t REALLY asking WHO his father WAS, the title is misleading...she assumes his father was the son-of-a-kenyan-goat-herder - the review makes it clear what the author is trying to tell us; his background, his history, his behaviour.

In contrast to his ‘brilliant son’ - therefor the barf alert.


40 posted on 07/11/2011 9:04:00 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (,)
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