The
American people have been duped. We are victims of an organized
campaign to give legitimacy to a fable. The fable concerns Barack
Obama's origins -- the "improbable love" his parents shared. This fable
proved so captivating that four years after he told it at the 2004
Democratic Convention, the American people elected the storyteller to
the presidency of the United States.
The fairy-tale is found in the pages of Obama's book, Dreams from My Father. When Obama began his campaign, there were very few sources that could verify the story told within its pages. Most of the central characters had died, including the mother, father, and maternal grandfather. The maternal grandmother who died shortly before the 2008 election was kept sequestered and was allowed to talk to the press only if the reporter had a "minder" from the Obama camp. Early Obama biographer David Mendell admits as much.
There were others, though, who proclaimed that the fable was true. These were friends of father Barack Obama, Sr. in Hawaii and friends of mother Ann Dunham in Seattle. Their recollections mirror the fable found in Dreams. In light of what we know today, much of what these friends have attested to is simply impossible. If we accept that the friends are not delusional, that they are able to tell the difference between fact and fiction, then they must have been intentionally falsifying their memories to protect the fable in Dreams.
For the uninitiated, the origin fable in Dreams is as follows:
Obama, goat herder from Kenya, arrives in Hawaii to pursue his studies. There, in a Russian language class, he meets and falls madly in love with Ann Dunham, who reciprocates his passion. She is a young girl just out of high school and newly arrived in Hawaii with her parents. Her father Stanley had relocated the family in order to chase brighter prospects in the furniture trade.
Soon Ann was pregnant. Sometime later, the couple, secretly and alone, flew to Maui to be married. Then, on August 4, 1961, our future president was born. The couple lived together. Ann dropped out of college to take care of the child while Barack Obama continued his studies.
The fairy-tale is found in the pages of Obama's book, Dreams from My Father. When Obama began his campaign, there were very few sources that could verify the story told within its pages. Most of the central characters had died, including the mother, father, and maternal grandfather. The maternal grandmother who died shortly before the 2008 election was kept sequestered and was allowed to talk to the press only if the reporter had a "minder" from the Obama camp. Early Obama biographer David Mendell admits as much.
There were others, though, who proclaimed that the fable was true. These were friends of father Barack Obama, Sr. in Hawaii and friends of mother Ann Dunham in Seattle. Their recollections mirror the fable found in Dreams. In light of what we know today, much of what these friends have attested to is simply impossible. If we accept that the friends are not delusional, that they are able to tell the difference between fact and fiction, then they must have been intentionally falsifying their memories to protect the fable in Dreams.
For the uninitiated, the origin fable in Dreams is as follows:
Obama, goat herder from Kenya, arrives in Hawaii to pursue his studies. There, in a Russian language class, he meets and falls madly in love with Ann Dunham, who reciprocates his passion. She is a young girl just out of high school and newly arrived in Hawaii with her parents. Her father Stanley had relocated the family in order to chase brighter prospects in the furniture trade.
Soon Ann was pregnant. Sometime later, the couple, secretly and alone, flew to Maui to be married. Then, on August 4, 1961, our future president was born. The couple lived together. Ann dropped out of college to take care of the child while Barack Obama continued his studies.
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