Obama Senior celebrated life fully but died miserable

I personally knew Obama Sr during his days as a middle level economist in Kenyatta’s Government. Always smartly dressed, Barrack Sr. was the embodiment of success.

He came from a poor family near Lake Victoria. Africa’s largest water mass, went to a tin-roofed school with no running water, but still managed to reach the pinnacle of intellectual life at Harvard University in the US, where he received his advanced degree.

At the university of Miami at Minoa, he was the first African student to be enrolled there for undergraduate studies, and therefore, became the centre of attraction.

Tall and dark with horn-rimmed spectacles and a deep baritone voice, Barrack was not only boastful about his achievement, but was patriotically African.

In an interview with The Washington Post soon after his arrival, he talked of his desire to study business administration, and of his hope of one day returning to Kenya to help with its transition from tribal customs to a modern economy.

Neil Abercrombie, who later became a district congressman, described Obama Sr. as brilliant, opinionated, and avuncular.

During his undergraduate years at the University of Hawaii, he married Ann Durham, a Kansas-born woman who was studying Russian at the same institution.

Ann was unaware that her husband was already married at home to Kezie Aoko when he was only 18 years, and that he had left behind two children. No wonder, the marriage did not last, and culminated in Ann filing a divorce in 1961, which Obama Sr did not contest.

By that time, the future President had already been born, and Obama Sr had moved to Cambridge for his masters degree where he met another white woman, Ruth Nidesand.

Unlike many other Kenyan students who get mesmerised by the fast pace of American life and decide to extend their stay, the young economist made good his promise, and returned home in 1965, two years after independence.

Ruth, an American-born educationist — whom Obama described as a “white woman with a long jaw and graying hair” followed Obama Sr to Nairobi, where they married and stayed together for seven years.

Like with his earlier marriage to Durham, the relationship with Ruth was turbulent.

“Obama Senior’s marriage to Ruth was not a happy one. Like his father, although charming, generous and extraordinarily clever, Obama Senior was imperious, cruel and given to boasting about his brain and his wealth,” said Philip Ochieng, a friend who was also a beneficiary of the Tom Mboya scholarships.

In the corridors of government where he served as a senior economist, Obama Sr was both envied and frowned upon by Nairobians because of his financial liquidity, and because of his obsession for beauties especially of the Caucasian breed.

His turning point, however, came in 1965 when, as a top bureaucrat at the Treasury, he issued a critical analysis of the government’s economic framework called “African Socialism and its Applicability to Planning in Kenya.” an ambitious document that had been authored by Mboya.

He disagreed with proposals to nationalise state corporations, as well as the manner in which the government planned to conduct trade, both locally and internationally.

Criticisms of the government by anyone, leave alone a serving civil servant, was unheard of. The statement generated a lot of heat in the corridors of power.

Accusations of insubordination and disrespect were bandied around. Soon thereafter, Obama Sr was sacked, throwing him into a long period of depression that saw his drinking habit overwhelm his desire to be a useful citizen.

The situation worsened when his marriage to Ruth collapsed. Jobless and down in the gutter, he was killed in a road accident on November 24, 1982 at the prime age of 46, as he navigated home from a boozing spree.

Thanks....

Looking through information on Odinga (education of Sr from years ago. Found the following. Could it have be related to the family picture? I don’t know why I saved it or what it is connected to....

Post-presidency
After his resignation, Suharto retired to a family compound in Central Jakarta, making few public appearances. Efforts to prosecute Suharto have mostly centred around alleged mismanagement of funds, and their force has been blunted due to health concerns. Suharto was never prosecuted.
Investigations Of Wealth
In May 1999, Time Asia estimated Suharto’s family fortune at US billion in cash, shares, corporate assets, real estate, jewelry and fine art. Of this, US billion is reported to have been deposited in an Austrian bank. The family is said to control about 36,000 km² of real estate in Indonesia, including 100,000 m² of prime office space in Jakarta and nearly 40% of the land in East Timor. Suharto was placed highest on Transparency International’s list of corrupt leaders with an alleged misappropriation of between US –35 billion during his 32-year presidency.
Related Legal Cases
In 2002, Suharto’s son Hutomo Mandala Putra, more widely known as Tommy, was sentenced to 15 years jail. He had been convicted of ordering the killing of a judge who had sentenced him to 18 months jail for corruption and illegal weapons possession. In 2006, he was freed on “conditional release.” following reductions in his sentence.
In 2003, Suharto’s half-brother Probosutedjo was tried and convicted for corruption and the loss of million from the Indonesian state. He was sentenced to four years in jail. He later won a reduction of his sentence to two years, initiating a probe by the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission into the alleged scandal of the “judicial mafia” which uncovered offers of 0,000 to various judges. Probosutedjo confessed to the scheme in October 2005, leading to the arrest of his lawyers. His full four year term was reinstated. After a brief standoff at a hospital, in which he was reportedly protected by a group of police officers, he was arrested on 30 November 2005.
On 9 July 2007, Indonesian prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit against former President Suharto, to recover state funds 0 m or £219 m, which allegedly disappeared from a scholarship fund, and a further .1 billion in damages.
On 4 September 2007, mediation at the Attorney General’s Office AGO between prosecutors and lawyers for Suharto over the Supersemar foundation civil lawsuit succeeded and thus the trial will have to commence.
On 10 September 2007, Indonesia’s Supreme Court awarded Suharto damages against Time Asia magazine, ordering it to pay him one trillion rupiah 8.59 million. The High Court reversed the judgment of an appellate court and Central Jakarta district court made in 2000 and 2001. Suharto had sued the U.S.-based Time magazine seeking more than $US 27 billion in damages for libel over a 1999 article which reported that he transferred stolen money abroad.
Health Crises
After resigning from the presidency, Suharto was hospitalised repeatedly for stroke, heart, and intestinal problems. His declining health negatively affected the many attempts to prosecute Suharto on charges of corruption and human rights violations, as his lawyers successfully claimed that his condition rendered him unfit for trial. In 2006, Attorney General Abdurrahman announced that a team of twenty doctors would be asked to evaluate Suharto’s health and fitness for trial. One physician, Brigadier General Dr Marjo Subiandono, stated his doubts about by noting that “Suharto has two permanent cerebral defects.” In a later Financial Times report, Attorney General Abdurrahman discussed the re-examination, and called it part of a “last opportunity” to prosecute Suharto criminally. Attorney General Abdurrahman left open the possibility of filing suit against the Suharto estate.”
Death
On 4 January 2008, Suharto was taken to the Pertamina hospital, Jakarta with complications arising from a weak heart, swelling of limbs and stomach, and partial renal failure. His health fluctuated for several weeks but progressively worsened with anaemia and low blood pressure due to heart and kidney complications, internal bleeding, fluid on his lungs, and blood in his feces and urine which caused a haemoglobin drop. On 23 January, Suharto’s health worsened further, as a sepsis infection spread through his body. His family consented to the removal of life support machines, and he died on 27 January at 1:10 p.m.
Suharto’s body was taken from Jakarta to the Giri Bangun mausoleum complex near the Central Java city of Solo. He was buried alongside his late wife in a state military funeral with full honours, with the Kopassus elite forces and KOSTRAD commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt.Colonel Asep Subarkah. In attendance were the incumbent president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as “Ceremony Inspector”, and vice-president, government ministers, and armed forces chiefs of staff. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to see the convoy. Condolences were offered by many regional heads of state, although certain regional leaders such as Helen Clark, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, boycotted the funeral, whereas Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared a week of official mourning.
Other Relevant or Related Items
History of Indonesia
Timeline of Indonesian history

On October 20, 1981, former Underground member Kathy Boudin and her soon-to-be husband, David Gilbert, were accomplices in the robbery of a Brinks armored car in Nyack, New York. In the course of that heist, one Brinks guard and two Nyack police officers were murdered. Also involved in the robbery was Judith Clark, who had served a prison term for her participation in the ‘Days of Rage.’ Boudin hired attorney Leonard Weinglass, a law partner of her father, to defend her in the case.

Now where was Barack Obama in October, 1981? Why at Columbia College.

And, where was Billy Ayers? Four blocks from Columbia at Bank Street College.

And Bernadine Dohrn worked in a baby boutique where stolen customer ID’s were used to rent trucks used in the series of robberies culminating in the 1981 slaughter in which 9 kids lost their fathers, the youngest of which was six-months.

And Bill Ayers Woods Fund put up the money to bring Obama to Chicago.

Just a series of coincidences. Could happen to anybody.

Take that information..and then think about the history before that.

CIA was very active in trying to overthrow Sukarno. It had been going on for a long time. They even got the White Christmas singer involved in making a porn film purporting to show Sukarno with a woman. That attempt was not successful.

The CIA was involved in the bloody coup -..the one that happened right after Lolo got sent back to the counry...and right after the Indonesian ambassador came back to the country to head up the East West center.

We know that the CIA has been involved with the overthrow of leaders..which makes me wonder what the heck is going on now with some many leaders being ousted. I can’t help but think the CIA is involved in some way.

Remember this coup was about getting rid of Communists. They tortured and killed people for years to uncover Communists.

Ann was a communist sympathizer - at the behest of the CIA (my belief)...and may have been, in fact, a commie sympathizer. What was she doing in Indonesia during all of this.

Also, there was a massacre in the Indonesia area while she was there. East Timor. It was closed off to the outside world.

I bet she knew about it.

The CIA will use anyone they can for whatever purpose they want.

From your link:

Then there were the revelations about Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dohrn — unrepentant terrorists and communists both — who helped launch Obama’s political career from their home. Ayers, indeed, may well have ghost-written Obama’s memoir Dreams from my Father, creating the impression that Obama was also skilled in writing as well as “community organizing.”

More substantially, there was Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Syrian born real estate wheeler-dealer and convicted racketeer, who helped Obama raise his first campaign funds and assisted him financially, and even facilitated his home purchases.

There were influential Palestinian scholars and propagandists Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said, colleagues and personal friends of Obama, despite his unconvincing efforts to distance himself from them and squelch his praise for their anti-Israel ideologies.

There was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s spiritual mentor, who conducted his marriage, baptized their children, and gave Obama’s campaign manifesto “Audacity of Hope” its title before being distanced (at least for the duration of the campaign) when their close twenty year relationship came to light.

And, of course, there is neighbor Louis Farrakhan, current leader of the Nation of Islam, who recently spoke of Obama as the “Messiah” and as Ken Timmerman confirms, enjoys an “open channel” of communication with him.

Why did all of these important scholars and ideologues, fundraiser and networkers, these millionaires and billionaires – especially from the Arab and Islamic world, and extreme socialist and communist party activists — reach out to help this unknown, undereducated young man, many before Obama was anybody of known importance?

Lucy, I am going to post this on the 1000+ thread about Obama Sr.

Please hear me out on this. I have been doing a bit of research into Odingo who is connected with A)Ayers/Dorhn from the Brinks Robbery AND also from a certain someone who has been living on the run since 1971 in Africa (Tanzania)

Ok, this person is named Pete O'Neal and in this picture (shown below), he looks VERY similar to Obama (as well as Malcolm X and he named his son Malcolm, but I digress...)

So here is Pete... and get this, he is from KANSAS CITY and started the Black Panther Party chapter there. He has been on the run from the law since 1971 (it was all a set up, of course, all their arrests were set up *eye roll*)

Notice how similar his kid looks to a young Obama too...

Here is Pete with Odinga (of the Brinks Robbery with Weather Underground / mother and father of Bill Ayers adopted son)

Still doing some research... just struck me.

Timeline entries related to period of discussion:

7/30/1980 Date that Obama supposedly filed out and filed Selective Service Card Uses address 1617 S. Beretania Honolulu Hawaii 96826
https://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/fake-obama-selective-service-on-fox-news-with-address-1617-s-beretania-st-honolulu-hi-that-also-shows-up-on-his-mothers-background-info-in-2008-13-years-after-she-died/

9/4/1980 Selective Service Assigns Obama a number From Allen letter dated March 4, 2009 FOIA request. Why a month delay from when filed?

9/15/1980 Obama stops using name Barry Soetoro and goes back to Barack Obama. Date is aproxmate
http://yeswecanimpeachobamanow.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/life-and-times-of-obama-time-line-1961-2008/

12/3/1980 Ayers and Dohrn turn themselves in.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/225952/obamas-weathermen-pals-should-worry-you/deroy-murdock?page=2

6/1/1981 Obama travels to Pakistan, India, Kenya and Indonesia for at least 3 weeks. Date is not exact

7/1/1981 Obama first cousin Raila Amolla Odinga indicted for coup attempt in Kenya
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1205656/pg1

7/26/1981 Frank Marshall Davis dies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Marshall_Davis

9/1/1981 BHO II goes to NY. Lives at #3E, 142 W. 109th St., Roommate is Phil Boerner
http://www.wikicu.com/Barack_Obama

9/21/1981 Bombing of ERU in Schenectady. Suspected of being BLA or WUO.

10/20/1981 May 19 Communist Group (fomer WUO) and Black Liberation Army (BLA) members rob Brinks truck killing 2 police officers and guard.

8/4/1982 BHO II turns 21.

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