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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 04, 2009, 12:10:38 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6925310
Oh my.
The greenbriar primitive.
greenbriar (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-04-09 12:09 PM
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Obama's half brother speaks out on abusive father
GUANGZHOU, China – President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote "Nairobi to Shenzhen" in part to raise awareness of domestic violence.
"My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that," said Ndesandjo, whose mother, Ruth Nidesand, was Barack Obama Sr.'s third wife. "It's something which I think affected me for a long time, and it's something that I've just recently come to terms with."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_en_ot/as_chin...
saracat (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-04-09 12:26 PM
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1. This is news?????? I am sorry to here this but it isn't news.
The bitter old Vermontese cali primitive:
cali (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-04-09 12:27 PM
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2. um. are you confused as to what forum you're in?
This is GD, not late breaking and you know perfectly well that everything from American Idol to movies is discussed here. Why so outraged over this OP?
dionysus (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-04-09 12:33 PM
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4. someone just can't help themselves!
greenbriar (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-04-09 12:37 PM
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5. do you mean "hear" dear?
just asking
Hmmm. The greenbriar primitve's a wee bit touchy about her own misspellings being called out.
greenbriar (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-04-09 12:38 PM
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6. and now here comes the neg rep brigade
right on cue
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It must truly suck to be posting at a site that is the epitome of lunacy and be considered stupid there by your fellow crazies.
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Don't some of the DUmmies blame their mental illnesses on abuse they suffered as children? Some people claim that abusive parents rarely change. I wonder if 0Bama was abused by his father before he abandoned the family? :fuelfire:
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Don't some of the DUmmies blame their mental illnesses on abuse they suffered as children? Some people claim that abusive parents rarely change. I wonder if 0Bama was abused by his father before he abandoned the family? :fuelfire:
Yes but what they consider abuse the rest of us call "parenting".
Cindie
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This would go far in explaining why Obama's mama ran like hell from Hawaii to Washington state just after baby Barry was born. If Papa 'Bama wasn't in the mood to be a papa he just might get violent.
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-04-09 12:37 PM
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5. do you mean "hear" dear?
just asking
Now THAT is funny right there!
KC
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-04-09 12:09 PM
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Obama's half brother speaks out on abusive father
GUANGZHOU, China – President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of... [blah, blah, blah]
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THIS half brother of The Øbamessiah? The one who makes about a dollar a month out of some ramshackle hut in the slums of Nairobi? When did he get the time to write a "semi-autobiographical novel", leaving aside the little matter of the typewriter/ laptop, electrical power to his ramshackle hut, and the little matter of a publisher for his "semi-autobiographical novel"?
$12 a year doesn't allow much consideration of such luxuries. Things like surviving through the next tomorrow tend to take priority.
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THIS half brother of The Øbamessiah? The one who makes about a dollar a month out of some ramshackle hut in the slums of Nairobi? When did he get the time to write a "semi-autobiographical novel", leaving aside the little matter of the typewriter/ laptop, electrical power to his ramshackle hut, and the little matter of a publisher for his "semi-autobiographical novel"?
$12 a year doesn't allow much consideration of such luxuries. Things like surviving through the next tomorrow tend to take priority.
Bo has several half-brothers. This one in the shack isn't the writer.