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Topic: In Visit to Myanmar, Obama
Will See a Nation That
Shaped His Grandfather |
In Visit to Myanmar, Obama
Will See a Nation That
Shaped His Grandfather
New York Times, by Peter Baker
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Original Article
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Posted By:pineledger, 11/18/2012 6:45:56 AM
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| Washington--When President Obama lands in Yangon on Monday, he will be the first sitting American president to visit the country now known as Myanmar. But he will not be the first Obama to visit. The president’s Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, spent part of World War II in what was then called Burma as a cook for a British Army captain. Although details are sometimes debated, the elder Mr. Obama’s Asian experience proved formative just as his grandson’s time growing up in Indonesia did decades later. “His roots go through Burma,” said Timothy Parsons, an African history professor
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Comments:
More anticolonialist roots appearing? Coming soon, Dreams from My Grandfather.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
M2, 11/18/2012 6:51:54 AM (No. 9021533)
Gawd, is there no end to his self-promoting desire to seem "exotic"? It´s bad enough the NYT finds this newsworthy but to inflict it on impressionable liberals of all ages is silly beyond belief.
Who cares what "shaped his grandfather"? I care only about what shapes America right now and I don´t like the shaper.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/18/2012 6:53:06 AM (No. 9021534)
I think I remember seeing where this government stole 90% of the relief aid they got a few years ago,so Obama would fit right in with hat kind of crowd.The poor people who bore the brunt of the flood are so poor,they didn´t have anything to lose,so I guess the ruling class dictators just decided not to waste the relief funds on them.
Of course the MSM is more interested in Obama´s jibberish roots than the lousy job he´s doing with the country.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Avidyananda, 11/18/2012 7:08:55 AM (No. 9021547)
Obama never had a father. He is fantasizing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lazyman, 11/18/2012 7:30:27 AM (No. 9021566)
Looking forward to our nation being just like Kenya or even Newark.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
beca, 11/18/2012 7:37:09 AM (No. 9021573)
the slimes again......they are nauseating......hope he stays there...grandada would like that
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
msjena, 11/18/2012 7:42:08 AM (No. 9021581)
Since Obama never knew his father or his grandfather, any experiences that "shaped" either one of them can have no relevance to Obama himself. Personality traits might be inherited; life-shaping experiences are not.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 11/18/2012 7:58:53 AM (No. 9021606)
I would hardly be surprised to learn that this Obama grandfather thing was a complete total lie and never happened.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/18/2012 8:04:10 AM (No. 9021613)
Te Hindo majority just wiped out a small muslim sect living there.
Killed numerous people and burned their villages.
Not a word from the lovely Ang nor anyone else in the world
While the atrocity was being committed the msm referred to the country as Burma. Hoping the majority of uninformed citizens wouldn´t notice that it was happening in Myanmar.
PIAPS arrived some months ago carrying bags of money. GE has arrived with ´business´ plans. And now the maoist is there smoothing the way for his cronies.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/18/2012 8:05:08 AM (No. 9021618)
sorry for the typo
It´s the HINDU majority
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Tianne, 11/18/2012 8:21:15 AM (No. 9021648)
FTA:
"Although details are sometimes debated...."
Key words that pertain to the entire article.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
grambo, 11/18/2012 8:23:17 AM (No. 9021650)
When DNA eventually, inevitably, proves the Obama Kenyan ancestry false, will the NYT correct these fairy tale stories?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 11/18/2012 8:25:45 AM (No. 9021652)
Another chapter in the novel. When will it stop?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
wepeople, 11/18/2012 9:23:46 AM (No. 9021758)
He is there to bless a regime that has butchered millions of Burma people. What a left wing tool.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
corndoggies, 11/18/2012 9:29:24 AM (No. 9021771)
Good for the Hindu´s.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ConservativeYankee, 11/18/2012 9:49:57 AM (No. 9021813)
Yuck. It would be nice to read about an American president with a patriotic American background.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/18/2012 10:07:24 AM (No. 9021846)
Just more proof that he is not one of us. What is the real reason for this tour. Getting out of Dodge because it was getting to hot?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
kono, 11/18/2012 10:13:41 AM (No. 9021856)
In Visit to Myanmar, Obama Will See a Nation That Shaped His Grandfather
It´s Burma, someone ought to remind the insipid twits at the Slimes. And if Barry should get kidnapped by Muslim militants, don´t offer more´n a sackful of rancid monkey´s butts as ransom...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Reality, 11/18/2012 10:50:23 AM (No. 9021920)
He is just doing a world wide search for his original birth certificate.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 11/18/2012 10:59:01 AM (No. 9021931)
The US government does not recognize the name ´Myanmar,´ which was the name given to Burma by the military dictators now illegally in power. The NY Slimes chooses to use ´Myanmar.´
Odd.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
badrad, 11/18/2012 12:54:59 PM (No. 9022163)
More of the obama herdsman and humble black beginnings? obama was fathered by Frank Marshall Davis Jr, Hawaii communist community organizer.
As obama himself once said, sometimes he believes his own BS.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 11/18/2012 1:09:05 PM (No. 9022199)
Agree with #15. Wiping out muslims is a good thing.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Kurto, 11/18/2012 1:42:24 PM (No. 9022249)
Composite grandfather?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ocjim, 11/18/2012 1:59:27 PM (No. 9022279)
Stay there. Send the plane back.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee, 11/18/2012 2:30:48 PM (No. 9022315)
So, how much is this genealogical research for his memoirs costing the American taxpayers?
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