DID OBAMA TELL A WHOPPER OR MISSPEAK?

Barack Obama’s biological father, Barack 0bama Sr. born 1936, was a Kenyan who came to America at the age of 23 and attended the University of Hawaii, where he met and married Stanley Ann Dunham – a marriage that produced one son, Barack Obama Jr., who is now President of the United Stales. However, Barack 0bama Sr.and Ann Dunham separated when their son was but a small child; the former returned to Kenya to work as a government economist, while the latter embarked on another marriage with an Indonesian national named Lolo Soetoro (born 1935).

Barack Obama Jr. lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia for four years, then from the age of ten onwards he lived with his maternal grandparents, Stanley Armour Dunham (born 1918) and Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham.

0bviousty Barack 0bama’s biological falher could not have served in the U.S. armed forces during World War ll, as Barack 0bama Sr.was then a child living in Kenya who was but nine years old when the war ended. (Nor could Obama’s stepfather have served during the war, as Lslo Soetoro was then a child in Indonesia who barely turned ten the year World War ll ended. Clearly 0bama’s mention of a veteran relative who came home
from World War ll and “got the services he needed” was a reference to his grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who enlisted in the military shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and served as a sergeant with the U.5. Army in Europe during the war.

Candidate 0bama misspoke in this instance when he said “father” instead of “grandfather” (perhaps influenced by the fact that, despite the difference in generations, his grandfather was the primary paternal figure of his childhood), but the simple mistake was hardy the whopping, bald-faced lie that some people make of it.

Source: Snopes.com


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