Long lost essay from Obama's father surfaces.

[Leftist Agitator]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080415/pl_politico/9610

...a long-forgotten essay written 43 years ago by Obama’s father has surfaced, and its contents reveal much — not only about the senior Obama’s grasp of economic theory but also about the iconoclastic politics that, his son would later write, sent him into the spiral of career disappointment that concluded with his death in 1982 in his native Kenya.

Parts of the article, titled “Problems Facing Our Socialism,” have been making the rounds on several small blogs over the past week, but Politico.com is now, for the first time, reproducing the entire piece in its original form.

The scholarly eight-page paper, credited to “Barak H. Obama,” is never mentioned in “Dreams From My Father,” nor has the candidate discussed it in any of his many public speeches. (Politico brought the article to his campaign’s attention late last week, but aides did not respond to a request for comment from Obama.)

Published in the esoteric East Africa Journal in 1965, the year after Kenyan President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta took power and the country declared independence from British rule, the paper takes a gently mocking tone to the Kenyatta government’s key, controversial statement of economic policy, titled “African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya.”

Obama senior’s journal article repeatedly asks what the Kenyan government means by “African Socialism,” as distinct from Soviet-style communism, and concludes that the new phrase doesn’t mean much.

[islandmkl]

1. "...Parts of the article..."

let's all guess what parts are included and what parts are left out...

this is covered IN DEPTH in earlier posts today...

skypuddle, do yourself a favor, and pay closer attention to what goes on in here...you cannot get away with 1/2-ass lame posts before you will self-flame, or worse....

put information out here, make a point, have a subject, or just join in the fray...

and use up your other two posts here just as effectively, and quickly, too...please

[burythehatchet]

2. very interesting read. REaffirms my faith knowing that he comes from a line of

thinkers and intellectuals. I bet if they had latte in Kenya these fellas would be all over it.