20 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyIn contrast to the media swoon of total adulation and uncritical acceptance of Obama here in the
United States, the British Daily Mail stresses that much of the account given in Dreams from My
Father is disingenuous and untrue. They comment: “Indeed, by offering up a conveniently plotted
account of his personal history in this way, he might even have made a pre-emptive strike on those
sure to pose the awkward questions that inevitably face a serious contender for the White House.
Yet an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed that, for all Mr Obama’s reputation for
straight talking and the compelling narrative of his recollections, they are largely myth.” (London
Daily Mail, January 27, 2007)
Senior’s life began to change when he encountered two American women missionary teachers.
They helped him to sign up for a correspondence course leading to a secondary school certificate.
He took the equivalency test at the US Embassy, and passed. He then applied to numerous
universities in the United States, and in 1958 won a scholarship at the University of Hawaii. Senior,
then aged twenty-three, left as soon as possible for Hawaii, deserting his pregnant wife and son,
who took refuge with Grandmother Sarah. Thus, when Senior married Stanley Ann Dunham, he
was a bigamist from the point of view of US law.
These years represented an acute phase of the Cold War struggle between the United States and
the Soviet Union. At about this time, the Soviets created the Patrice Lumumba University in
Moscow as a special institution for the education and indoctrination of African students. The
Soviets sought actively to recruit the future leaders of African countries and bring them to Moscow
for a free university education in the hopes that they would remain sympathetic to the Soviet cause
during the rest of their careers. We must assume that a few were also recruited by the KGB. The
United States intelligence agencies carried out similar operations on a somewhat more decentralized
basis for the recruitment of young prospective African leaders as agents of US influence. The
recruitment of Obama Senior by the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa could
very well have occurred within the framework of such a US effort. In fact, we are told that Obama
Senior and Stanley Ann Dunham met for the first time in a Russian class. Some commentators have
concluded from that that candidate Obama’s mother was a Soviet or communist sympathizer. There
is probably some truth in that thesis. But Obama Senior may have been studying Russian as part of
a US-backed program aimed at making him at the very least a US sympathizer in Kenyan society,
and perhaps something more. At any rate, it is quite possible that the spirit of the CIA hovered over
candidate Obama’s parents at the time of their wedding, if there was one. The marriage of Obama
Senior with Ann Dunham must be regarded as highly unusual at a time when interracial marriage
was still illegal in many U.S. states. There was, however, a high statistical correlation between
interracial marriage and proximity to the Communist Party.
OBAMA SENIOR: AN ABUSIVE POLYGAMIST AND EGOMANIAC
The Daily Mail account stresses that even though the image of Senior presented in candidate
Obama’s first book is hardly sympathetic, it is nevertheless an attempt to present this unattractive
individual in the best possible light: “We have discovered that his father was not just a deeply
flawed individual but an abusive bigamist and an egomaniac, whose life was ruined not by racism
or corruption but his own weaknesses. And, devastatingly, the testimony has come from Mr
Obama’s own relatives and family friends. Relatives say he was already a slick womaniser and,
once in Honolulu, he promptly persuaded a fellow student called Ann - a naive 18-year-old white
girl - to marry him. Barack Junior was born in August, 1961.” (Sharon Churcher, “A drunk and a
bigot - what the US Presidential hopeful HASN’T said about his father,” London Daily Mail,
January 27, 2007)