SubscribeObama’s Dad - A Drunk Polygamist Bigot?
From the UK’s Daily Mail:
A drunk and a bigot - what the US Presidental hopeful HASN’T said about his father…
27.01.07
… Mr Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, is flying off the shelves of US book stores, exciting and astonishing readers in equal measure. It is a bestseller, and no wonder - because the story just gets better and better.
Mr Obama is already Democratic Senator for Illinois. Now he is in the running to be the first black President in the country’s history…
Many believe Mr Obama is a serious threat to Hillary Clinton’s hopes of becoming the Democrats’ choice for their next Presidential candidate - and his lovingly written account of the debt he owes his father, also called Barack Obama, will do no harm at all to his Presidential hopes…
Yet an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed that, for all Mr Obama’s reputation for straight talking and the compelling narrative of his recollections, they are largely myth.
We have discovered that his father was not just a deeply flawed individual but an abusive bigamist and an egomaniac, whose life was ruined not by racism or corruption but his own weaknesses.
And, devastatingly, the testimony has come from Mr Obama’s own relatives and family friends…
Barack Obama Sr started life with the advantage of being able to read and write, but he also felt a profound sense of injustice. His father was a cook for British settlers in Kenya, who demeaningly called him their ‘personal boy’.
Grandfather Obama sent his son to a missionary school but after completing his education, the youth could find little work except goatherding in his remote village of Nyangoma Kogela, in the roadless hills of Western Kenya.
At 18, he married a girl called Kezia. But Obama Sr was more interested in politics and economics than his family and his political leanings had been brought to the notice of leaders of the Kenyan Independence movement.
He was put forward for an American-sponsored scholarship in economics, with the idea being that he would eventually use his Western-honed skills in the new Kenya. At the age of 23 he headed for university in Hawaii, leaving behind the pregnant Kezia and their baby son.
Relatives say he was already a slick womaniser and, once in Honolulu, he promptly persuaded a fellow student called Ann - a naive 18-year-old white girl - to marry him. Barack Jr was born in August, 1961.
Two years later, Obama Sr was on the move again. He was accepted at Harvard, and left his little boy and wife behind when he moved to the exclusive east coast university.
At the time, Ann explained to their son that his father had gone because his meagre stipend would not support the family if they lived together. But finance was the least of her worries.
Mr Obama Jr claims that racism on both sides of the family destroyed the marriage between his mother and father.
In his book, he says that Ann’s mother, who went by the nickname Tut, did not want a black son-in-law, and Obama Sr’s father ‘didn’t want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman’.
In fact Ann divorced her husband after she discovered his bigamous double life. She remarried and moved to Indonesia with young Barack and her new husband, an oil company manager.
Obama Sr was forced to return to Kenya, where he fathered two more children by Kezia. He was eventually hired as a top civil servant in the fledgling government of Jomo Kenyatta - and married yet again.
Now prosperous with a flashy car and good salary, his third wife was an American-born teacher called Ruth, whom he had met at Harvard while still legally married to both Kezia and Ann, and who followed him to Africa.
A relative of Mr Obama says: "We told him[Barack] how his father would still go to Kezia and it was during these visits that she became pregnant with two more children. He also had two children with Ruth."
It is alleged that Ruth finally left him after he repeatedly flew into whisky-fuelled rages, beating her brutally.
Friends say drinking blighted his life - he lost both his legs while driving under the influence and also lost his job.
However, this was no bar to his womanising: he sired a son, his eighth child, by yet another woman and continued to come home drunk.
He was about to marry her when he finally died in yet another drunken crash when Obama was 21…
In his book, he attempts to put the best face on it. His father, he writes, lost his civil service job after campaigning against corrupt African politicians who had ‘taken the place of the white colonials’.
One of Obama Sr’s former drinking partners, Kenyan writer Philip Ochieng Ochieng says, however, that his friend’s downfall was his weak character.
"Although charming, generous and extraordinarily clever, Obama Sr was also imperious, cruel and given to boasting about his brain and his wealth," he said.
"He was excessively fond of Scotch. He had fallen into the habit of going home drunk every night. His boasting proved his undoing and left him without a job, plunged him into prolonged poverty and dangerously wounded his ego."
Ochieng recalls how, after sitting up all night drinking Black Label whisky at Nairobi’s famous Stanley Hotel, Obama Sr would fly into rages if Ruth asked where he had been.
Ochieng remonstrated with his friend, saying: "You bring a woman from far away and you reduce her to pulp. That is not our way."
But it was to no avail. Ruth sued for divorce after her husband administered brutal beatings…
Mr Obama has acknowledged that his father grappled with a drinking problem. But with a gift for words that makes Mrs Clinton’s utterances seem stiff and stale, he has turned it into another component of the myth.
Drink, he says, like drugs, are one of "the traps that seem laid in a black man’s soul".
Mr Obama claims that he, too, has been racially abused, even during his campaign for the White House.
His mother, Ann, decided that he should get an American education and sent him back from Indonesia to Hawaii, where he was admitted to a £7,000-a-year prep school, Punahau Academy, and lived with his maternal grandparents.
And while there, says Mr Obama, he was tortured by fellow pupils - who let out monkey hoots - and turned into a disenchanted teenage rebel, experimenting with cocaine and marijuana.
Even his grandparents were troubled by dark skin, he says in his book, recalling how once his grandmother complained about being pestered by a beggar.
"You know why she’s so scared?" he recalls his grandfather saying. "She told me the fella was black."
Mr Obama says his soaring ‘dream’ of a better America grew out of his ‘hurt and pain’.
Friends, however, remember his time at school rather differently. He was a spoiled high-achiever, they recall, who seemed as fond of his grandparents as they were of him.
He affectionately signed a school photo of himself to them, using their pet names, Tut and Gramps.
The caption says: "Thanks… for all the good times." He worked on the school’s literary magazine and wore a white suit, of the style popular with New York writers at the time.
One of his former classmates, Alan Lum, said: "Hawaii is such a melting pot that it didn’t occur to me when we were growing up that he might have problems about being one of the few African-Americans at the school. Us kids didn’t see colour. He was easy-going and well-liked."
Lon Wysard, who also attended the academy, said the budding politician was in fact idolised for his keen sportsmanship.
"He was the star basketball player and always had a ball in his hand wherever he was," Wysard recalled.
Mr Obama was later admitted to read politics and international relations at New York’s prestigious Columbia University where, his book claims, "no matter how many times the administration tried to paint them over, the walls remained scratched with blunt correspondence (about) niggers."
But one of his classmates, Joe Zwicker, 45, now a lawyer in Boston, said yesterday: "That surprises me. Columbia was a pretty tolerant place. There were African American students in my classes and I never saw any evidence of racism at all."…
A family friend said: "He is haunted by his father’s failures. He grew up thinking of his father as a brilliant intellectual and pioneer of African independence only to learn that in Western terms he was basically a drunken lecher."
This ugly truth, say friends, has made Mr Obama ruthlessly determined to use every weapon that he has to succeed, including the glossily edited version of his father’s story.
"At the end of the day Barack wants the story to help his political cause, so perhaps he couldn’t afford to be too honest," said Ochieng…
He has positioned himself as a devout Christian (having found God, he says, after years as an atheist) and in a new book The Audacity Of Hope, timed to coincide with his campaign, he concentrates on his manifesto for ‘reclaiming the American dream’.
This tome contains one telling paragraph, in a section in which he fumbles to try to justify his abrupt leap into the national political arena: he is, he says, chronically ‘restless’.
"Someone once said that every man is trying to either live up to his father’s expectations or make up for his father’s mistakes, and I suppose that may explain my particular malady."
His parentage probably isn’t as telling as the racist lunatic pastor whom Mr. Obama (Jr) now claims as his role model.
However if any of this this is true, it’s odd it hasn’t been reported by our unbiased watchdog media.
But then again, how much do we know about Bill Clinton’s father?
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January 30th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Somehow this reminds me of the old joke about the Social Worker in the black part of town…
January 30th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Uhh darn. I don’t think I ever heard that joke.
January 30th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
1st? or wont is pass the censor?
January 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
“Barack Obama Snr started life with the advantage of being able to read and write”
Wow, he was a prodigy. I didn’t learn to read until I was five.
January 30th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
But then again, how much do we know about Bill Clinton’s father?
Hmmmm….. I never really thought about this before but this statement is very true.
I’m really sick and tired of being misled by the media.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
A new Social Worker was interviewing the people in the black part of town. When she went to the first house she asked the lady of the house how many children she had. The lady said she had 4 children. The SW asked who the father was and the lady said John.
The SW went to the next house and that lady said John was the father of her 7 kids. The SW got the same response all over the neighborhood. When she got to the last house and got the same response, she said,”John should be hung” and the lady of the house said, “Oh he is, He is” ;)
January 30th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I guess the blackgodboy went to the John’reportingfordutyNOT’Kerry school of autobiographical story telling with a refresher course at the Michael Moore school of presentation. Which makes him the ideal democrat candidate - a liar.
Good that this is coming out before the election - man that hillary smear machine is working overtime.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
If I was Obama, I would be hiding my tax records. Does anyone really think that Hillary is going to let this upstart take what she believes is rightfully hers? It is not important now, but just wait until about six weeks before the primaries. She will release the hounds of hell on Obama and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
You have to feel sorry for a man who idolizes his dead beat dad and then has to deal with Hillary and her destruction machine.
January 31st, 2007 at 6:31 am
Health Warning: the Daily Mail is a mid-market tabloid that specializes in character assasination and wild speculation. Hateful, mean-spirited and anti-American paper. The last time I read it they carried a big story about how Flight 93 was actually shot down by the US Air Force and it was all hushed up, of course, by the White House, so take whatever they say about anybody or anything with big dollops of salt.
That said, the main reason I can see why Hatrack can’t be President is the junk that comes out of his mouth. No original ideas, nothing but the usual liberal happy talk. Freakin’ doofus.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:44 am
Sick ‘em Hillary, you go girl…
January 31st, 2007 at 10:48 am
“Health Warning: the Daily Mail is a mid-market tabloid that specializes in character assasination and wild speculation.”
Aren’t their quite draconian libel laws in Great Britain? I would think that it would be worth Osama’s lawyers’ time to knock this down if it is untrue.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:36 am
SG,
It is not against the law to print the truth.
Actually Osamayomama’s dad sounds a lot like the Rev. Jessie Jacksoonnn.
January 31st, 2007 at 12:39 pm
What’s the big deal? Sounds like a normal family and family life to me, Obama’s the family values candidate. Remember Obama lies and you troops will die.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Do you all actually believe that a presidential canidate should come from “good stock” genetically? Why can’t you believe that someone could feel like their father or mother helped shape who they are. I think it took a lot of courage for him to walk down the path he’s on, and whether I aggree with his ideals or not, I believe it is wrong to criticize his upbringing in this way. Not everyone is born into a life they would have chosen. Being able to learn from the people you have met doesn’t nessicarily mean following in their footsteps. Why was this article written from such a negative perspective? Maybe Obama was never even aware of some the actions of his father when he was growing up. Whether or not that is the case, his actions have shown that he has made decisions based on what HE believes in. That is more than what we have required from many of our past political leaders. Follow your heart. And pray for him to do the same.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:58 pm
“Someone once said that every man is trying to either live up to his father’s expectations or make up for his father’s mistakes, and I suppose that may explain my particular malady.”
Like I said, follow YOUR heart. We should only elect political leaders who are comfortable doing just that. It would be a great interview question for him.
How impotrant is pride to you?
January 31st, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I’m not sure who you are addressing, but I don’t see anyone criticizing him background or upbringing.
Just his lying about it.
Also, while we’re on the subject, what do you think of the pastor whom Obama says is his spiritual mentor?
Meet Barack Obama’s Pastor And “Spiritual Mentor” | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com.....ia-youtube
January 31st, 2007 at 5:45 pm
jewel,
Would you please explain this quote fom your own website?
“I stayed up a little late last night to watch the State of the Union Address by President Bush. I sincerely hope he is serious about the quest for alternative modes of transportation, but I still have my doubts due to the results this effort would have on his personal financial situation.
January 31st, 2007 at 5:45 pm
jewelciappio
Osamaobamaorama claimed his father was an educated high official with the Kenyan Government. That is only half the story. We need to know the entire story to make an informed decision. He was trying to hide the truth from us by sugarcoating his family history.
He hates whites, his church hates whites, and his Kenyan father likely hated whites.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:21 am
“Quite draconian libel laws in Great Britain…” Yeah, Steve, there are - that’s why George Galloway’s not in prison. No laws however against the lurid speculation, extreme language and spin, spin, spin - qualities which characterize the UK press in general and the Mail in particular. It really is awful, trust me.
As for Hatrack’s father’s character flaws, Reagan’s dad was the town drunk and RR turned out okay.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:51 am
“As for Hatrack’s father’s character flaws, Reagan’s dad was the town drunk and RR turned out okay.”
Lincoln’s father was no picnic either.
But again the my point is that if any or even some of what this article claims is accurate, Obama has been telling some very tall tales.
And not just about his father, but his own experiences.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:57 pm
““As for Hatrack’s father’s character flaws, Reagan’s dad was the town drunk and RR turned out okay.”
How about Slick’s dad??
If we were playing baseball, we’d be batting .333 if we throw in Abe’s Dad, we’re really hitting the ball at .500 :)
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Okay, I have to throw in my two cents worth, regarding jewelciappio’s posts. I don’t want any of my elected officials to “follow their hearts”. I want them to follow the Constitution, the standards of his/her constituants, and cold logic. This is the STOOPIDITY of liberalism!!!! It’s all about how you feeeeellll, and what does your heart tell you. Makes me vomit.
As I had learned at about 6th grade, when you follow your heart, it will lead you into trouble. It is so painfully obvious! This is the problem I have with all this hippie crap. It just simply defies common sense.
All of the flower power BS from jewel just shows how much of a dork she is. Call me cynical, but I really doubt Osamaobamayomamma actually does anything that will get in the way of his raw political ambition. Today’s on the go libtard will calculate the political rammifications for taking a crap in the morning versus the afternoon. Everything they say, do and everybody they associate with are a part of an image that they are trying to maintain for their political base. People like jewel are so naive, or just politically ignorant are sucked right into their cult of personality. Because, that is what it really is.
Hey jewel, grow the F- up! Osamaobamayomama is not going to say what he really thinks, he will say what you want to hear, nothing more, nothing less. He will obfuscate whenever the questioning gets tough, like ALL OTHER GAS BAGS IN CONGRESS!
November 24th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Okay, I am not a hippie. For the record.
I want to add that I personally will NOT be voting for Obama. However, I firmly believe that judging the potential candidates for president based on heritage is not the most logical, or rational way to decide who is right for the job. This article does not pursuade me either way although it is written from a biased perspective.
The constitution was written with the basic understanding that people will follow their moral values and make good decisions. I find that today, it rarely matters if a person is making a good choice, because the law prevails. People are more afraid of being sued for their efforts, than whether or not they are able to help people.
The quote from my website:
“I stayed up a little late last night to watch the State of the Union Address by President Bush. I sincerely hope he is serious about the quest for alternative modes of transportation, but I still have my doubts due to the results this effort would have on his personal financial situation.”
What’s to get? I live in California. Gas is now at over $3.50 a gallon. The Bush family is invested oil. I have noticed a large fluctuation in prices. Once the general population starts driving electric vehicles price of gas won’t be a huge concern anymore. I wish more people would consider buying a “strawberry douche” fueled vehicle. Its sad that more government grants haven’t been awarded to people who are developing more fuel efficient cars.
November 24th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
“Its sad that more government grants haven’t been awarded to people who are developing more fuel efficient cars.”
Since you brought up the Constitution, where exactly is the government given the power to do any such thing?