Obama rolls his eyes at "western heroes". (So says his Bro.)

[Danno 1,228]

As I have often maintained, Obamas love for this country is limited to what it can be like, once "fundamentally transformed."

Neither of his brothers saw it that way, while they seemed to admire the West, Obama instead has another vision.

In fact it is his radical fathers vision. "Dreams FROM my father" how many dreams has your father imparted to you? Without you even knowing him?

They say you can know a man by his heroes.

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OBAMA’S HALF-BROTHER REVEALS WHAT THE PRESIDENT DID THE FIRST TIME THEY MET IN KENYA AND TALKED ABOUT ‘HEROES OF WESTERN CULTURE’

President Obama’s half-brother tells an Israeli newspaper that when he first met Barack, he was struck by his sibling’s rejection of western culture.

“I remember that my impression at the first meeting was that Barack thought that I was too white, and I thought that he was too black,” Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo told Maariv. “He was an American citizen on a journey in search of his African roots, while I was a resident of Kenya seeking to find his white roots.”

“I remember that when I spoke with him about the heroes of Western culture he rolled his eyes impatiently. My feeling was that, here is an American who in many ways is trying to be a local Kenyan youth. This is something I tried to flee my entire life,” Ndesandjo said of the brothers’ first meeting in Kenya that Obama described in his 1995 best selling memoir “Dreams from My Father.”

In his memoir, Obama also described the first meeting with his brother. “I don’t feel much of an attachment [to Kenya]. Just another poor African country,” Obama quoted Ndesandjo saying. He went on to say, “You think that somehow I’m cut off from my roots … Well, you’re right.”

As was reported on TheBlaze last month, Ndesandjo has said he wants to “set the record straight” about some of the details presented in Obama’s memoir.

The siblings have met since that first meeting in Kenya, including in 2007 before then-candidate Obama’s debate with Hillary Clinton.

“I came to visit him in Texas, and it was one of the happiest moments of my life. He entered the room where I was waiting for him, looked at me and said, ‘Mark, what happened to your afro?’ And I asked: ‘What happened to your afro?’ He said: ‘I cut my hair.’ It was a real moment, very natural, as if for a moment we returned to being two brothers,” Ndesandjo recounted.

Ndesandjo described his relationship with the president as “loaded” and “passionate.”

“There were very good conversations or very loaded,” he said in the interview that was published on Thursday.

The siblings share the same Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., but different white American mothers.

“A few months ago I asked him to contact his relatives in Kenya. I told him that even one phone call would propel them to the sky with such happiness, but he didn’t like what I asked, and that moment broke off the connection with me,” Ndesandjo said.

Note that in Hebrew – the language in which the interview was published – the same word is used for “connection” and “relationship” so it’s unclear if Ndesandjo meant that his brother Barack cut off the telephone conversation or their relationship.

“He can be sensitive, aggressive or very stoical. That’s a side of his personality that many people do not know,” Ndesandjo said of Barack Obama.

“Barack and I have a lot in common. Both of us have advantages and disadvantages, and some of them come from our father,” Ndesandjo told Maariv.

The president’s half-brother described their relationship with their parents and with each other.

He called their father “a boundary-breaking man and to a large extent rebellious. He was a man of great passion and intellect, who attracted many people.”

Asked what he has in common genetically with Barack, Ndesandjo said, “I think that the common link between us comes not from [our] shared father, rather more from our mothers. Both of us had strong mothers, women who took great risks to raise their children and to protect them. Barack and I love our mothers to no end, because they defended us and protected us.”

“I thought it was amazing how much he resembles me,” Ndesandjo said of their first meeting. “And yet, we were like two Siamese twins who looked in the direction of the other, and we were unable to see each other.”

Ndesandjo is today a businessman and musician who lives in China. He published an autobiographical novel several years ago which described an abusive Kenyan father.

He also runs the Mark Obama Ndesanjo Foundation which promotes cultural exchanges between Asia, Africa and the U.S. and provides instruments and music teachers to needy children in China.

When his parents divorced, Ndesandjo moved to the U.S. where he studied physics at Brown University and Stanford and earned an MBA from Emory University.

Ndesandjo’s mother, Ruth Nidesand, Obama Sr.’s third wife, was born in the U.S. to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants.

Ndesandjo told Maariv he considers himself a member of the Jewish people. “I am a Jew not only because I have a Jewish mother but first and foremost because there exists in me great pride to be a part of the Jewish people. I feel great belonging to Jewish heritage, to Jewish culture, and to the Jewish philosophers,” he said.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Have to like a guy that enjoys Asian babes.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What is the point of this thread, spurious conjecture?

[lostinblue 1,989]

Obama’s Half-Brother ‘Floored’ About President’s Lying About Meeting Him

By Andrew Johnson

January 2, 2014 4:57 PM

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Mark Obama Ndesandjo said he was surprised to hear his half-brother President Barack Obama say they had only recently met for the first time.

“I was floored by it — I don’t know why he said it,” Ndesandjo said to Laura Ingraham, adding that he had met the president several times over the years and still isn’t sure what his motivation was for making the claim. “I think he was being president and was not being my brother,” Ndesandjo said.

From their first meeting, which took place in the 1980s in Kenya, where he lived as an American ex-pat, Ndesandjo​ said both he and the president had different views: Ndesandjo was trying to distance himself from his father and his father’s name, while Obama was looking to further embrace his father’s roots.

When Ingraham pointed out that Obama doesn’t spend very much time with his extended family and seems to prefer the company of celebrities such as Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Ndesandjo said she “had a point.” Ndesandjo, who has a book coming out in February, said ultimately that he isn’t very political and tends to focus on “the art side.”

http://nationalreview.com/corner/367435/obamas-half-brother-floored-about-presidents-lying-about-meeting-him-andrew-johnson

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

And people should care why?

[lostinblue 1,989]

Much of the kenyans life has been a fabrication. First a book saying he was kenyan born., then he never lived with his uncle, Now he never met his brother. Lies and more lies ... It just does not matter..

Barbara Walters admits ‘we’ thought Obama was ‘the next messiah’

Bow down to your God

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Sounds like you're the one who needs to bow down. Or maybe take a step or two back and take some deep breaths.

Edited January 3, 2014 by Papa Lazarou

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Much of the kenyans life has been a fabrication. First a book saying he was kenyan born., then he never lived with his uncle, Now he never met his brother. Lies and more lies ... It just does not matter..

Barbara Walters admits ‘we’ thought Obama was ‘the next messiah’

Bow down to your God

True insanity right here.

But really, how much clarity can you expect out of someone who calls him the Kenyan?

Edited January 3, 2014 by Penny Lane

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yeah I agree. Totally nuts.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Much of the kenyans life...

All of them? Kenya is a large country, mind you...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

All of them? Kenya is a large country, mind you...

How do you know? Would you take a Kenyan's word for that - apparently they're 'fabricators'.

[JohnR! 5,495]

How do you know? Would you take a Kenyan's word for that - apparently they're 'fabricators'.

OMFG! I never thought of that.... Everything there is made up.... Kenya is the land of the langoliers!!!!!!!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

OMFG! I never thought of that.... Everything there is made up.... Kenya is the land of the langoliers!!!!!!!

Indeed. Have you been to Kenya? How do you even know it exists?

[JohnR! 5,495]

Indeed. Have you been to Kenya? How do you even know it exists?

Well, I am now confused... I have landed at Mombasa airport a few times. I remember seeing airplanes boasting Kenya Airlines livery. I am sure I would find stamps on my passport from - allegedly - immigration in Kenya... but now, since we all know that it is all made up, I have this feeling it was all a set up...

This is all very disturbing...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well, I am now confused... I have landed at Mombasa airport a few times. I remember seeing airplanes boasting Kenya Airlines livery. I am sure I would find stamps on my passport from - allegedly - immigration in Kenya... but now, since we all know that it is all made up, I have this feeling it was all a set up...

This is all very disturbing...

You have been warned ;-)