Who is obamas real father

His parents separated when he was nine years old, and he was raised by his stepmother, Sarah Ogwel. Later in life he became an atheist and believed that religion was just superstition. Obama married his first wife Kezia Aoko in , and the couple had two children, Malik and Auma. In he was selected for a special academic program and traveled to the United States to enroll as the first African foreign student to study at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu.

Also, while in Honolulu he met and married year-old Stanley Ann Dunham in The couple had one child together, future U. President Barack Hussein Obama Jr. They divorced three years later in After graduation in , Obama returned to Kenya, with Baker in tow, and they married later that year. The couple had two sons, Mark and David, and divorced in Obama began to work for an oil company as an economist in Kenya.

He was promoted to the economist for the Kenyan Ministry of Transport, and eventually senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance. He also reunited with his first wife Kezia and had two additional children, Abo and Bernard. He believed he was now a target of the government. He was fired and blacklisted in Kenya and found it difficult to find and hold down a job. Of course, Gilbert is making a common mistake: the movie is not so much being censored as it is being made fun of.

Obama's real dad is Frank Marshall Davis , a black newspaper editor, labor activist, and alleged communist. Obama's maternal grandfather convinced Obama Sr. The reason Obama is so radical is because he got radical genes from his real dad.

Is it true? Come on, guys. Evidence: Dreams from My Real Father 's website says it " weaves together the proven facts with reasoned logic in an attempt to fill-in the obvious gaps in Obama's history.

Virality of surprise: The documentary was released in April. Since then, it's gotten attention on a few right-wing blogs, like American Thinker.

That is absolutely frightening. I verified that it is factual, all of it. People can determine. Gilbert has mailed 4 million copies to voters in swing states in September and October. Controversy of surprise: While the Davis controversy hasn't gotten much attention in the mainstream media, it is quite controversial among birthers. If Obama's dad is Davis, then he's an American citizen -- and qualified to be president of the United States.

Reilly explains, this has created a schism between Birther king Jerome Corsi, who's given attention to the film, and Birther queen Orly Taitz. Surprise impact: October Suprises get their power by co-opting the news cycle and making people change their minds about the candidates. This one, so far, seems to be confined to the looniest of the right-wing, and we highly doubt any of them were considering voting for Obama anyway.

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