On Apr 20, 3:51 pm, Yoorg...@Jurgis.net wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:52:33 -0700 (PDT), Richard Steel
>
> <
rsteel2...@aol.com> wrote:
> >Obama
> >has literally between eight and a dozen half brothers....that we know
> >about. You really want to go there?
>
> Sure
>
> Post the evidence.
Be glad to. You do know, of course, that Obama admits to there being
eight - these are only the offical members who he mentioned in his
book "Dreams of My Father."
Barack Obama’s Branch-y Family Tree
How many half-siblings do you think Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois,
has? Two? Three? Four? Would you believe eight? That’s the official
count, at any rate, though that number seems approximate. Here’s how
it shakes out.
HALF-SIB #1 ONE: MOM’S SIDE — HALF-SIS MAYA
The one who has been front row and center is Maya Soetoro-Ng, 37, who
has campaigned on Obama’s behalf. After Obama’s parents divorced,
Obama’s mother Ann Dunham — Barack Obama Sr.’s second wife — married a
man named Lolo Soetoro. The whole brood, including Obama and his new
little half-sister Maya, lived in Indonesia. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a
Buddhist, holds a Ph.D. in education, has a Chinese-Canadian husband,
and teaches at an all-girl’s school in Hawaii. On this video she
discusses her relationship with her older half-brother. We know far
less about Obama’s half-siblings through his late father’s side.
Barack Obama Sr. had eight children with four different women. Here’s
who they are.
HALF-SIBS #2-THROUGH-5 — DAD’S SIDE — MALIK, AUMA, ABO & BERNARD When
Obama was in London, The Sun found one of his half-brothers in the UK,
Bernard Obama. Bernard is the youngest child from Barack Obama Sr’s
first marriage in Kenya to Kezia (who now lives in the UK.) He runs an
auto parts firm in Nairobi, Kenya, and converted to Islam.
Their other three kids from the Obama Sr./Kezia marriage are Abongo
(Roy) Obama who is also known as Malik, half sister Auma Obama, and
Abo Obama. Malik lives in the Obama family’s ancestral home in Kenya,
Nyangoma-Kogelo, and runs an electronics store nearby. He and Sen.
Obama served as best men for each other’s weddings. Readers of this
blog might also recall the misinformation spread after Malik spoke to
Israeli Army Radio. Malik converted to Islam and Obama wrote in Dreams
From My Father that Malik is "prone to make lengthy pronouncements on
the need for the black man to liberate himself from the poisoning
influence of European culture, and scolds Auma for what he calls her
European ways. The words he speaks are not fully his own, and in his
transition he can sometimes sound stilted and dogmatic. but the magic
of his laughter remains, and we can disagree without rancor."
Obama met his half-sister Auma after their father died in a car
accident in 1982. “I knew at that moment, somehow, that I loved her,"
Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father. "Even now I can’t explain it; I
only know that the love was true, and still is, and I’m grateful for
it." She lives in London, and in 2006 told the Guardian, "Barack was a
lot like my father – his hand movements, his gestures, how he talks,
how he sits. He’s got a certain quietness about him and he sits and he
concentrates like my father. He can be in a room full of people and he
withdraws on his own. And we’ve all got the Obama hands – the fingers
and everything. So it was amazing to watch that, because I was meeting
him for the first time but it felt like I knew him."
The last child from this brood, Abo Obama, doesn’t necessarily come
across the best in Dreams From My Father. In 1987, Obama visited Kenya
to meet Jok Obama in K’Obama (the people of Obama in the Land of
Obama), and Abo wasn’t happy that the tape recorder Obama brought him
as a gift wasn’t a Sony. "I nodded at him, trying not to get angry,"
the senator wrote. In his half-brother’s eyes he saw "something that
reminded me of young men back in Chicago. An element of guardedness,
perhaps, and calculation. The look of someone who realizes early in
life that he has been wronged." One except from Dreams make it seem
less clear whether Bernard is definitely related to Obama. Obama’s
Aunt Zeituni, his dad’s sister, tells him that after Obama Sr. went
off to live with his third wife Ruth Nidesand, "’well, he would go to
Kezia sometimes. You must understand that traditionally she was still
his wife. It was during such a visit that Kezia became pregnant with
Abo…The thing was, Kezia also lived with another man briefly during
this time. So when she became pregnant again, with Bernard, no one was
sure who –’ Zeituni stopped, letting the thought finish itself. "’Does
Bernard know about this?’" Obama asks. "’Yes, he knows by now. You
understand, such things made no difference to your father. He would
say that they were all his children.’"
HALF SIBS #6 & 7 — DAD’S SIDE — MARK AND DAVID The London Times also
found Obama half-brother Mark Ndesandjo in Shenzhen, China, selling
services to help Chinese merchants sell their goods in the U.S. Mark
Ndesandjo is the son of Obama Sr. and his third wife, American Ruth
Nidesand, who runs a kindergarten in Nairobi, Kenya. In Dreams From My
Father, Obama describes meeting Mark, who said he never thought of
settling in Kenya since, “there’s not much work for a physicist, is
there, in a country where the average person doesn’t have a telephone…
You think that somehow I’m cut off from my roots, that sort of thing.
Well, you’re right…At a certain point I made the decision not to think
about who my real father was. He was dead to me even when he was still
alive. I knew that he was a drunk and showed no concern for his wife
and children. That was enough.” "It made you mad," Obama said. "Not
mad," replied Mark." Just numb." Obama wrote that when he said goodbye
to Mark, “we exchanged addresses and promised to write, with a
dishonesty that made my heart ache.” Mark’s brother David Ndesandjo
was killed in a motorcycle accident. Nidesand had another son, Joseph
Ndesandjo, owner and president of DHS Security in San Antonio, Texas.
Joseph Ndesandjo may have a resemblance to Obama, but the campaign
says they are of no relation, though he is Obama’s half brother’s half
brother.
HALF SIB #8 — DAD’S SIDE — GEORGE Lastly, from Barack Obama Sr.’s last
known relationship, is George, whom Obama met during that 1987 visit
to Kenya. "I took comfort in the fact that perhaps one day, when he
was older, George, too, might want to know who his father had been,
and who his brothers and sisters were, and that if he ever came to me
I would be there for him, to tell him the story I knew," Obama wrote.
– jpt
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/07/barack-obamas-1/
Now, let's visit what a scumbag Obama's dad was.
Barack Obama's father beat me, claims half-brother
By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Mr Ndesandjo, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, is
the son of Barack Obama senior and his third wife, Ruth Nidesand, an
American.
In a rare appearance to promote his semi-autobiographical novel,
Nairobi to Shenzhen, Mr Ndesandjo said: "My father beat me. He beat my
mother. You just do not do that.
"I remember in my house, I would hear the screams. I would hear my
mum's pain. As a child, I could not protect her," he said, breaking
into tears.
"I could not remember any good things about my father. My skin had
turned hard emotionally for so many years."
President Barack Obama refers to Mr Ndesandjo simply as "my brother"
and says he was the only uncontested heir after their Kenyan father
died in a car crash in 1982.
Mr Obama's own mother separated from their father two years after he
was born in Hawaii in 1961. Mr Obama senior went on to have at least
six other children in Kenya.
The president has written of his fatherless childhood in his book,
Dreams of my Father. In it, he described a visit to Kenya to learn
more about him, and described his father as a gifted man but an
abusive alcoholic.
"I knew that he was a drunk and showed no concern for his wife and
children. That was enough," he wrote.
Until now, Mr Ndesandjo has refused to capitalise on his family
connection and has maintained a low profile. He has declined to
discuss his earliest memories of the president or describe their
relationship over the years.
However, he said on Wednesday that he hopes to meet his brother in
Beijing when the president makes his first visit to China at the end
of next week. "My plan is to introduce my wife to him. She is his
biggest fan," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/6501604/Barack-Obamas-father-beat-me-claims-half-brother.html