"The issues that Mother’s face, those are issues that matter to all of us. So families count on women having equal opportunity." I wonder what he will say this year?

I found this nice excerpt on the Wikipedias (Barack Sr's page)
"In September 1962, after a tour of mainland U.S. universities, Obama Sr. traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he began a graduate fellowship in economics at Harvard University and rented an apartment in a rooming house near Central Square in Cambridge. Meanwhile, Dunham and her son returned to Honolulu in the latter half of 1962, and she resumed her undergraduate education in January 1963 with the spring semester at the University of Hawaii. In January 1964, Dunham filed for divorce in Honolulu; the divorce was not contested by Obama Sr.[28][36] In 1965, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese surveyor whom she had met at the East-West Center. Obama, Sr. was forced to leave his Ph.D. program at Harvard University in May 1964 (and received an A.M. in economics from Harvard in 1965). In June 1964, Obama Sr. met and began dating a 27-year-old Jewish Americanelementary school teacher named Ruth Beatrice Baker, the daughter of prosperous Lithuanian immigrants to the United States." ...

If I were to take this as fact who left who?

Now an excerpt from Obama Jr's page

"The couple married on February 2, 1961, separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964. Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya"


Wikipedia for ye!

What does this have top do with the thread? The media and everybody else just likes to callously say "his father left him" or he was a deadbeat. While he was somewhat a deadbeat based on the evidence above he was no worse than "mother dear"...

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"The issues that Mother’s face, those are issues that matter to all of us. So families count on women having equal opportunity." I wonder what he will say this year?

I found this nice excerpt on the Wikipedias (Barack Sr's page) "In September 1962, after a tour of mainland U.S. universities, Obama Sr. traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he began a graduate fellowship in economics at Harvard University and rented an apartment in a rooming house near Central Square in Cambridge. Meanwhile, Dunham and her son returned to Honolulu in the latter half of 1962, and she resumed her undergraduate education in January 1963 with the spring semester at the University of Hawaii. In January 1964, Dunham filed for divorce in Honolulu; the divorce was not contested by Obama Sr.[28][36] In 1965, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese surveyor whom she had met at the East-West Center. Obama, Sr. was forced to leave his Ph.D. program at Harvard University in May 1964 (and received an A.M. in economics from Harvard in 1965). In June 1964, Obama Sr. met and began dating a 27-year-old Jewish Americanelementary school teacher named Ruth Beatrice Baker, the daughter of prosperous Lithuanian immigrants to the United States." ...

If I were to take this as fact who left who?

Now an excerpt from Obama Jr's page "The couple married on February 2, 1961, separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964. Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya"


Wikipedia for ye!

What does this have top do with the thread? The media and everybody else just likes to callously say "his father left him" or he was a deadbeat. While he was somewhat a deadbeat based on the evidence above he was no worse than "mother dear"...

A bit of tag problems.