Dreams from His Father

This article from the L.A. Times has a few fantasies of its own, claiming the original Barack Obama married Ann Dunham in 1961. In fact, there is no proof at all the two were ever married.

As we all know, the two COULDN'T have been married, for the elder Obama was already married to a wife in Kenya, which the article mentions. The original wife was raising two children.

There is no proof of a divorce, either, between the elder Obama and Dunham.

The original birth certificate could provide a lot of the answers about the circumstances surrounding "Barack Obama's" birth and parents.

The elder Obama, while obviously possessing some intellect and had a career of note, was a typical stupid male of the era (and eras afterward) screwing other women and drinking up a storm. His boozing got him into several accidents, including one in 1965 which killed another person. He would get drunk and pass out on the doorstep of his house. Finally his wife, the real one at the time, Ruth, finally had enough and divorced him.

Barack Sr., who never had much if any contact with the son he abandoned, visited him for about a month in 1971. He wanted to take him to Kenya. He was proud of his son. Of course this was years before the younger Obama took up with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko.

In the end, the drinking wrecked his career. He went from job to job, sometimes fired from jobs, sometimes quitting them. Finally, the drinking cost him his life; he was killed in a car crash in 1982 at the age of 46, the same age, as the article notes, his son "Barack Obama" is now.

The father was not very admirable, and other than the fact the younger Obama could exploit his father's ethnic background for political reasons there is no reason why he would even write a book about him. The old man was a colorful character, but he was hardly worth idolizing or admiring.