Our alcoholic father beat me, says Barack Obama's half brother, Mark

[bijou]

As President Barack Obama begins his China visit, his half brother who lives there reveals that when he was a child their father was a violent drunk.

The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is a world away from Washington DC.
The booming border town and the staid American capital are both home to members of the Obama family. That, though, is where the similarities end, because while Barack Obama resides in the splendour of the White House and is perhaps the most recognisable person on the planet, his younger half-brother Mark lives anonymously in a rented two-bedroom flat in Shenzhen's suburbs.
 
Now, on the eve of his older sibling's first-ever visit to China, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo has emerged from the shadows to reveal the disturbing truth about the late Barack Obama Sr, his and President Obama's father.
Last week, Mr Ndesandjo published an autobiographical novel, Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Tale of Love In The East. It paints a shocking picture of his abusive and alcoholic father, one that is at odds with the man portrayed in Dreams From My Father, President Obama's best-selling 1995 memoir.
"I can remember my father hitting my mother and me. They're memories I don't like to dwell on because it's very painful for me," said Mr Ndesandjo, who has lived in China for seven years.
"I had a very difficult early childhood and there were things that happened to me that really hardened me."
In his book, Mr Ndesandjo describes a father who was a heavy drinker and who began to abuse his wife, verbally and physically, soon after they were married. Their son witnesses his mother running, screaming, into the night to escape being beaten. ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6569816/Our-alcoholic-father-beat-me-says-Barack-Obamas-half-brother-Mark.html

[ColonialMarine0431]

Your parents may have put you on the toilet facing the wrong way as a child, but if you're still sitting that way as an adult, it's your fault. My dad was distant and cold. A real hard ass Marine Colonel who never touched me except to hit me when I was bad. Only occasionaly do I think about him, but he does'nt dominate my life. So get over it  Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo .

[DumbAss Tanker]

Marine, I guess the real takeaway is that BHO's book is a complete PR piece of fantasy bullshit writing that has no relation to reality and was probably completely ghost-written in the first place, though I expect most of us here thought so already.

...and y'know, I'd have to say that one thing you really can't accuse Obama of is nepotism...

 

[JohnnyReb]

Barack's daddy should have hung around and beat some sense into him.