Ashland resident Laurie Montero was just 5 years old in 1960 when her father helped in a controversial effort to bring about 250 students from Kenya to prominent universities in the United States.
One of the students in the African airlift effort, which began a year earlier, was presidential candidate Barack Obama's father, something she just discovered last week.
We have a link through our fathers," said the 53-year-old Obama supporter. "When I first found out, I started to cry."
The more she thought about the work her father did — he was a social activist working for civil rights on the East Coast — the stranger it seemed.
Almost 50 years later, the effort of her father's dream now seemed fulfilled in the candidacy of Obama.
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If Hillary Clinton has only a 10 percent chance of beating Obama, then Obama has a zero chance of being president.
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