Now that Barack Obama Junior is safely America’s president-to-be, his stepmother has decided to speak to the press about her courtship and relationship with Barack Obama Senior. According to this interview with Grace Keziah Obama from Kenya’s Standard newspaper, the father of our President elect was quite a lady killer and, ‘He liked fun and loved good things. Which is why I wasn’t surprised when I heard that he had married a second wife in the U.S.’ She is referring, of course, to President-elect Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham.
Grace Keziah Obama continues in part:
“She was only 16 and attending school. She had no idea that the young man courting her that Christmas night in 1956, would one day father the future president of the most powerful nation on earth. He asked to dance with me during a party and I couldn’t turn him down. He picked me out of several girls that were there. A few days later, I married him … He paid 14 cows as dowry for me, which were delivered in two batches. That was because he loved me so greatly.”
By John Oywa
November 11, 2008
Kenya – The Standard – Original Article (English)
On the day that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and and his wife, Michelle, were treated to a visit to the White House, Obama’s stepmother broke her silence on life with the Senator’s father.
Grace Keziah Obama, 67, who now lives in Bracknell, U.K., but who is currently visiting the rest of the family in Kogelo [Kenya], says her late husband – who also known as Barack Obama – was a loving man with a taste for the good things in life. She says he also spoke his mind and liked the truth.
Speaking to The Standard at her house in Kogelo, Keziah narrated how she met Obama Senior at a village dance party deep in the rugged plains of Karachuonyo.
She was only 16 and attending school. She had no idea that the young man courting her that Christmas night in 1956, would one day father the future president of the most powerful nation on earth. Keziah says Obama Senior was so handsome and stylish that she couldn’t resist his advances.
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