I. Obama’s Roots in Polygamy and the Ford Foundation 23I am ashamed," he said. For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to
sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college. He has only met his famous older
brother twice - once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a
tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi.’ (Daily Telegraph, August 21, 2008) Obama has often
paraded his devotion to the poor, to the “least of these” in Gospel terms. But although Obama talks
a good game of charity, it appears that he has never given a penny to this wretched man who lives in
poverty and despair made more acute by the contrast with his half-brother, the glittering
international celebrity. If Obama’s black African brother gets no charity from Barky and Michelle,
what can the American people expect except snake-like cruelty?
The Daily Mail account of Obama Senior in Kenya concludes with the finding that candidate
Obama has been permanently traumatized by his discovery as an adult in his mid-30s of the sordid
details of his father’s actual biography. These details are worthy of attention, since psychological
dramas, reaction formations, and related forms of psychological vulnerability have often been used
in the recent past by the various White House palace guards to manipulate and control elected
presidents. We must therefore pay special attention to the Daily Mail’s conclusion that: ‘Family
members and acquaintances believe that the real cloud over Mr Obama’s life has been the discovery
that his father was far from the romantic figure that his mother tried to portray. A family friend said:
“He is haunted by his father’s failures. He grew up thinking of his father as a brilliant intellectual
and pioneer of African independence only to learn that in Western terms he was basically a drunken
lecher.” This ugly truth, say friends, has made Mr Obama ruthlessly determined to use every
weapon that he has to succeed, including the glossily edited version of his father’s story. “At the
end of the day Barack wants the story to help his political cause, so perhaps he couldn’t afford to be
too honest,” said Ochieng.
Significantly, it was only four years after his father’s death that Mr Obama travelled to his
father’s ancestral Kenyan village. There he learned the full story of his father’s life and met some of
his relatives. One of his half-sisters, Auma, is now a council worker in southern England, but some
of his other relatives are still living in huts in the village, without plumbing or electricity, farming a
few scrawny goats and chicken and growing fruit and maize. They speak the tribal Luo language
and depend on handouts from family members who have emigrated to the UK and the United States
for their few luxuries, notably the transistor radios that they use to follow Mr Obama’s rocketing
political fortunes. He has positioned himself as a devout Christian (having found God, he says, after
years as an atheist) ....”’ (Sharon Churcher, “A drunk and a bigot - what the US Presidential
hopeful HASN’T said about his father,” London Daily Mail, January 27, 2007)
Candidate Obama writes in Dreams of My Father, “Someone once said that every man is trying
to either live up to his father’s expectations or make up for his father’s mistakes, and I suppose that
may explain my particular malady.” Candidate Obama may therefore be aware to some degree of
the psychological drama which he exhibits. But this still leaves important questions: Has he ever
grown up? Does he have the psychological strength necessary for independent and autonomous
action, as mandated by the constitutional powers of the president enumerated in the U.S.
Constitution? Due in large part to the adulation and propitiation of Obama by the controlled
corporate media, these life-and-death questions are far from having been answered.
MATERNAL GRANDFATHER, STANLEY DUNHAM, KANSAS ATHEIST
Obama’s maternal grandparents came from Wichita, Kansas. His grandfather, Stanley Dunham,
the person he calls Gramps, had worked on oil rigs during the great depression of the 1930s. Stanley