Posted on 01/06/2009 11:17:12 PM PST by FocusNexus
Sarah Obama, 86, will fly from her native Kenya to attend the inaugural festivities, the Kenyan government announced on Tuesday.
Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama isn't actually related to the next president by blood - she was the third wife of Barack Obama's paternal grandfather. The two must speak through an interpreter as she knows only a few words of English.
But they formed a close bond when he first visited Kenya in 1988.
Sarah Obama will attend a pan-African celebration the night of the inauguration. It's not the first time she's been to Washington: she came in 2004 to celebrate her step-grandson's inauguration into the U.S. Senate.
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I lol’d
i thought that obama first met sarah obama in kenya in 1983, the year after his father died.
he made the trip after leaving occidental college in los angeles and before he began classes at columbia college in new york city. on this trip he also traveled to pakistan with his roomates and indonesia to visit his mother.
Wonder where the money came from for these international jaunts, and what nation’s passport he used.
Obama Sr’s actual mother left after she gave birth to two children and Sarah is the one who raised them
Obama’s aunt who is here illegally and was living in public housing in Boston is now in Ohio and has retained an immigration attorney.
Madelyn Dunham’s siblings Charles, Margaret and Jon/Jack have rarely spoken with the media. Charles became the spokesperson when Madelyn was ill and is the uncle who lives in Chicago where he retired after years of working at the University of Chicago library. Margaret retired from teaching at a University and lives in N.C. while Jon/Jack lives in AZ. His grandfather’s brother Ralph was living in FL and I don’t know if he is still alive.
It has been rumored that Obama Sr is the Kenyan that Frank Marshall Davis wrote about in his autobiography as “...a Kenyan student split, leaving behind TWO pregnant blondes...”
“Obama’s aunt who is here illegally and was living in public housing in Boston is now in Ohio and has retained an immigration attorney.”
Who HAD been living illegally/on the dole, in Boston...
Hey, did she sign up for a free ticket? (nah, probably gonna get a plane trip ... doncha think?)
(if it was my Aunt....)
Did Menino get an invite?
A ‘hummina, hummina, hummina’ moment (nod to Jackie Gleason)
Not needed. She brought her own body odor. Nobody can come within 3 miles.
I hope she brings her copies of the birth photos and the doctors and nurses in the Mombassa hospital.
Don't think so. If she does, she'll end up in a mental hospital or worse.
I sent an e-mail to AP asking them what evidence they have that he was born in Hawaii since that “fact” is being challenged in various US courts.
You are such a resource and font
of information. Thank you.
Are you keeping an ongoing journal
of all these tidbits?
Maybe you should publish a book .. ;)
Ooops
font = fount
LOL for the most part I retain what I have read(served me well in school) so much of the information I have learned is in my head!
May I humbly suggest that you write
down what you know... maybe your FR
profile page? Time has a way of
playing with memory. Ask me how
I know........... ;)
Do you want to send me a “round tuit”? LOL Call me a master procrastinator! I am also still reading through adoption message boards for 1961 Vancouver in the off chance a woman in the home at the time is searching for the child she gave up for adoption.
No problem if he's still married to the other two, which Grandpa Obama was, IIRC. He was a Muslim, he could have 4 wives (at one time, he could say "I divorce thee" and pick up a replacement at any time as well) and as many concubines as he felt the need for and could support.
They don’t care because they know that by and large WE don’t care. That is, the citizenry doesn’t care.
Generally,if you tell someone that Obama was born in Kenya, the response is “So what?” If you tell them he’s not a natural born citizen, they’ll respond with the heart-felt principle that children born by caesarian section ought to have all the rights that people born naturally have, including the right to be elected President.
The level of apathy and ignorance is simply staggering.
Oh, I needed that...I’m home not feeling well today.
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