Did Barack Obama Sr, provide financial/child support for young Barack and Ann Dunham ?

[Bombtrack]

I would appreciate any info thanks.

[marmar]

1. Por quoi?

:shrug:

[hlthe2b]

2. Why would that information be any of our business?

I can't imagine it would be publicly available, regardless. What is the issue you are trying to pursue? :shrug:

[timeforpeace]

3. Put your motives out where we can see them, sir. Step away from the talking points.

[hlthe2b]

7. I gather you mean to direct your response to the OP?

[Bombtrack]

8. I'm pretty sure I've been a member here about 7 years longer than you have

my motives are my interest in history in general and my President in particular.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. Have you read 'Dreams From My Father'?

You should. A wonderful book, loaded with information.......

[Bombtrack]

9. I intend to. Could you enlighten me in the meantime? EOM

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. I could, sure,

if you tell me why you need this information..........................

[Bombtrack]

11. I don't need it. I would like to have it because I'm interested in Baracks journey

I'm a curious person. I didn't know that was so frowned apon here now.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. Such a specific query

bespeaks a specific agenda.

And there are so many people out there looking for "facts," anything that conceivably could be used to start yet another rumor about President Obama - his birth, his citizenship, his religion - so when such a very specific, personal question about his mother and father is asked, I know that I am immediately suspicious. Like so many others, I feel rather protective of my President.

Your curiosity will be sated when you read "Dreams From My Father." I was delighted to learn what a terrific writer he is. Our President is quite the Renaissance man.

I've just started reading "The Audacity of Hope," and it's just as wonderfully-written.

You have a couple of treats before you. Enjoy your journey.............

[TahitiNut]

15. I read them both last year .... well worth the time. Good reads.

"Dreams From My Father" is the superior work from a rites-of-passage (memoir) point of view. It's constructed very well and has a pervasive emotional component. "Audacity of Hope" is a more politically mature work in which he presents a highly nuanced liberal-but-democratic perspective. It seems clear he was a 'natural' as a community organizer ... a facilitator and guide rather than an autocrat. These books have been invaluable in understanding his approach to governance, imho.

[Iggo]

5. Why do you care?

[jesus_of_suburbia]

6. I hope so. Like any good father, he should have. I'm assuming he did since

I haven't heard President Obama being mad at him.

[mamaleah]

18. Maybe not mad, but there was this story

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7878162


Home > Politics
Obama to Fathers: Don't Be Like My Absent Dad

Growing up without a father left a hole in his heart, President Barack Obama told boys at the White House Friday in a remarkably personal Father's Day weekend message. He implored fathers everywhere — and the kids when they're older — to be involved in the lives of their own children.

"This isn't an obligation," said the father of two in a message to millions of wayward dads. "This is a privilege to be a father."

Obama spent hours on Friday with teenagers, young men, community mentors and everyday dads in hopes of launching what he called a national conversation on responsible fatherhood. Each story was personal. But one of them commanded the most attention: his own.

He spoke at length about how his father, Barack Obama Sr., left home early. The future president was just 2 at the time and saw his dad only once more, at age 10, a short visit that still left a lasting imprint.

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There is more at the link. He might not be angry with his father, but it seems as though he does think his father did some wrong. Being female I cannot imagine what it is like for boys to grow up without their fathers. I know I would not have been the same without my mother as my guide.

[EFerrari]

19. It's certainly a loss. Obama's father reminds me of my own.

He wasn't very good at marriage and although he loved his children, the daily work of families was always uncomfortable for him. It wasn't even a matter of what he wanted or didn't want, it was just that way. Brilliant man, a kind man but not a family man as we think of family men.

As a child, there's a lot of loss connected to having a parent like that. As an adult, you begin to forgive and understand and even empathize to a degree.

[mamaleah]

20. I agree.

One of the things that attracted me to my husband was that on the day I met him he was busy wrangling 3 kids under the age of 5. He was so involved with them I thought they were his children, but much to my joy they were his 2 nieces and his nephew. Daily family life tests people in ways that can never be fully understood to those who have not experienced it. It's the most stressful yet most joyous job I have ever had.

Being a parent is a privilege, though sometimes when dealing with the teenager I question my privilege. :)

[BlooInBloo]

12. Looking for monetary records going either to Kenya or Hawaii around that time?

[Judi Lynn]

14. So unusual for someone to try to stick one's nose so deeply into his private life. n/t

[Kurska]

16. This thread is full of wackos, it's not like Barrack hasn't lectured on how black men need to be

more responsible fathers. If his dad wasn't wouldn't it speak volumes on why barrack feels so strongly about that issue?
Can we stop with the Freeperscare around here already? It gets really tiresome after awhile. I love how some people are actually actively denying this person information, because you know repressing information is a real progressive thing to do.

[EFerrari]

17. In the documentary "Senator Obama Goes to Africa"

Obama's sister says something very moving about their father. She says that when he went back to Kenya, the sheer number of people there who were family and who depended on him was overwhelming.