A drunk and a bigot: What the POTUS never told about his (alleged)father
A drunk and a bigot: What the POTUS never told about his (alleged)
father
From 2/27/07
A drunk and a bigot - what the US Presidental hopeful HASN'T said
about his father...
By SHARON CHURCHER
Excerpts:
"It is a classic story of the American dream made real: an
impoverished Kenyan goatherd rising to become a brilliant Harvard-
educated economist.
....This extraordinary story is told by US Presidential hopeful Barack
Obama as he recalls the life of the man who inspired him to political
success - his father.
Mr Obama's book, Dreams From My Father, is flying off the
shelves .....
.....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...
.....Mr Obama Jnr claims that racism on both sides of the family
destroyed the marriage between his mother and father.....
.In fact Ann divorced her husband after she discovered his bigamous
double life. She remarried and moved to Indonesia....
Obama Snr was forced to return to Kenya, where he fathered two more
children....
....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....
....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....
Mr Obama's 40-year-old cousin Said Hussein Obama told The Mail...."We
have assured Barack that his father was a loving person but at times
it must be difficult for him to reconcile this with his father's
drinking and simultaneous marriages."...
...Far from being an inspiration, the father whom Mr Obama was coming
to know seemed like a total stranger.
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 Snr's former drinking partners, Kenyan writer Philip
Ochieng Ochieng says,....
..."He was excessively fond of Scotch. He had fallen into the habit
of going home drunk every night..."
....Ochieng recalls how, after sitting up all night drinking Black
Label whisky at Nairobi's famous Stanley Hotel, Obama Snr would fly
into rages if Ruth asked where he had been....
"He was..... very arrogant on the road, especially when he had whisky
inside. I was not surprised when I learned how he died...." snip
The current news out of the WH could bring a couple of cliches to
mind:
"Where there is smoke there is fire" and "The apple doesn't fall far
from the tree"
Here is the 2007 article in its entirety:
[url]http://preview.tinyurl.com/62b4zEvleths[/url]
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