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To: Fred Nerks
From that link:

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Quote removed

I took out:

Barack Jr. would later relate that his Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979), "didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman".

The fact that Barack Sr.'s granddad objected is given in the sentence before, so no information is lost. I think a lot of people will find this quote offensive and it doesn't really add much to our understanding of Ann, who is the subject of the article after all. Another objection that could be made is that Barack Jr., whose interest was to tell his life story in a dramatic way, didn't really know anything about his grandfather's state of mind. I don't think that he ever met him. Steve Dufour (talk) 15:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

It's fine to take it out, but the source is the letter the grandfather wrote to the father so it's not conjecture. Flatterworld (talk) 19:41, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

128 posted on 09/02/2009 8:51:08 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Fred Nerks

Seems to me . that in their efforts to buff the image of Obama...they are actually wanting to remove evidence that Stanley Ann might be actually be his mother ( or could be a different white woman I guess )....ROFL!


129 posted on 09/02/2009 8:53:54 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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