Obama’s Claim That British Tortured His Grandfather Debunked
I wonder if Barack Hussein Obama will stop hating Western Civilization in general and our closest ally Britain in particular in light of the revelation that his fantasy about his grandfather being tortured by the British for standing up on behalf of the put-upon colored masses is not true:
‘Barack Obama: The Story’ by David Maraniss catalogues dozens of instances in which Obama deviated significantly from the truth in his book ‘Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance’. The 641-page book punctures the carefully-crafted narrative of Obama’s life.
One of the enduring myths of Obama’s ancestry is that his paternal grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama, who served as a cook in the British Army, was imprisoned in 1949 by the British for helping the anti-colonial Mau Mau rebels and held for several months.
Obama’s step-grandmother Sarah, Onyango wife, who is still living, is quoted in the future President’s memoir, as saying: ‘One day, the white man’s askaris came to take Onyango away, and he was placed in a detention camp.
‘But he had been in the camp for over six months, and when he returned to Alego he was very thin and dirty. He had difficulty walking, and his head was full of lice. He was so ashamed, he refused to enter his house or tell us what happened.’
In a 2008 interview, Sarah Obama claimed that he was ‘whipped every morning and evening’ by the British. ‘They would sometimes squeeze his testicles with metal rods. They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together. He was lucky to survive. Some of his fellow inmates were mutilated with castration pliers and beaten to death with clubs.’
But Maraniss, who researched Obama’s life in Kenya, Indonesia, Hawaii and the mainland United States, found that there were ‘no remaining records of any detention, imprisonment, or trial of Hussein Onyango Obama’. He interviewed five people who knew Obama’s grandfather, who died in 1979, who ‘doubted the story or were certain it did not happen’.
Nonetheless, Obama is eager to believe that it did. The dreams from his father after which one of his pre-accomplishment biographies is named are dreams of revenge on behalf of the African homeland with which he clearly identifies. The implications of someone with a profound grudge against Caucasians and the West being made Leader of the Free world will alarm anyone not suffering from cranial–rectal insertion syndrome.
Other fabrications reinforce the same racial/ethnic grievances.
Maraniss also casts a sceptical eye on Obama’s grandmother’s tales of racism in Kansas, doubting whether she was ever chastised for addressing a black janitor as ‘Mister’ or ridiculed for playing with a black girl.
Obama himself, Maraniss finds, deliberately distorted elements of his own life to fit into a racial narrative. The author writes that Obama presents himself in his memoir as ‘blacker and more disaffected’ than he really was. …
A tale of the father of Obama’s Indonesian stepfather Soewarno Martodihardjo being killed by Dutch soldiers as he fought for Indonesian independence turns out to be ‘a concocted myth in almost all respects’, Maraniss finds.
If the Manchurian Moonbat believes any of his own B.S., or even that it generally represents reality, this country will remain in extreme danger until he is safely out of office.
On tips from Don M and Byron.
After watching this video, I am no longer surprised why he feels the need to fabricate his family history. And I do feel sorry for the him when he was a young child. I can not imagine what damage things like that did to his psyche.
“But Maraniss, who researched Obama’s life in Kenya, Indonesia, Hawaii and the mainland United States, found that there were ‘no remaining records of any detention, imprisonment, or trial of Hussein Onyango Obama’. He interviewed five people who knew Obama’s grandfather, who died in 1979, who ‘doubted the story or were certain it did not happen’.”
Must be a family thing I guess ?
No records in Hawaii AGAIN ?
We can’t expect Bill Ayers to get all the facts right in his book, now can we?
He reminds me of the black woman professor at Columbia, who after getting busted for plagiarism, hung a noose on the doorknob to her office and concocted false claims of racism.
p.s. she was fired anyway
If Obama had a son…..
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/nyc-5th-grade-student-makes-controversial-case-gay-191351899–abc-news-topstories.html
“The case for legalizing gay marriage is being made in New York, but not in the mayor’s office or even the state’s capital. It’s coming from Kameron Slade, a fifth-grade student at PS 195 in New York City.
When the bespectacled student was tasked with giving a speech in front of his entire school, he went big, choosing to take on the controversial topic of same-sex marriage.”
The drive-by media will not address Maraniss on these latest revelations of Obama’s fabrications, but it has yet to come up with any plausible excuse that Obama represented as fact, whether more his own BS or true, that he was born in Kenya, and they never will.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
AC says:
“We can’t expect Bill Ayers to get all the facts right in his book, now can we?”
They fit the Narrative, didn’t they? …
Perhaps Obysmal is the foundational inventor of modern “fake but accurate”. At least he has taken it to the level of a work of art, much like he and his friends in Chicago turned zombie voting into an art.
The biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
Im sure this was a honest mistake by Bill Ayers.
It appears that the Obama family history is that they are liars from way, way back