
Michelle Obama made some little known comments at a July 2008 round table at the University of Missouri, in response to criticism of husband’s campaign speeches, about fatherhood and faith-based initiatives. Michelle stated that Ann Dunham, Barack’s mother, was “very young and single” when she gave birth to the future president. Michelle went on to state that her husband understood the struggles of low-income families. "He understands them because he was raised by strong women. He is the product of two great women in his life. His mother and his grandmother," she said.
"Barack saw his mother, who was very young and very single when she had him, and he saw her work hard to complete her education and try to raise he and his sister," Michelle Obama said.
Hmmm… this isn’t the official story told by her husband where he stated that his parents were married at the time of his birth. The story claims that Dunham and Obama, Sr. were married on February 2, 1961.
According to Hawaiian documentation, Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961 to Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. His parents were separated two years later and were divorced in 1964.
After Obama’s father returned to his homeland of Kenya, Barack only saw his father once before he died in an auto crash in 1982.
Going past the official story, it isn’t really clear if Obama’s parents were really married at all, since there are no records about a legal ceremony, no witnesses and no family members present. To top that none of their friends at the university, they both attended, even knew that they were engaged.
Obama himself, on page 22 of his autobiography "Dreams from My Father," wrote about his parents' wedding:
“In fact, how and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I've never quite had the courage to explore. There's no record of a real wedding, a cake, a ring, a giving away of the bride. No families were in attendance; it's not even clear that people back in Kansas were fully informed. Just a small civil ceremony, a justice of the peace. The whole thing seems so fragile in retrospect, so haphazard."
To further complicate the story even more, when Barack Obama Sr. arrived in Hawaii in September 1959 at the age of 23, he already had been married, since age 18, to a Kenyan woman named Kezia Aoko. Aoko was allegedly pregnant with Obama Sr.'s first child when he abandoned her in Africa in 1957.
Eventually Obama Sr. had four children with Aoko. Jerome Corsi, WMD staff writer has concluded that there is no evidence to suggest that he was divorced from Aoko either in Kenya before he left for Hawaii or in Hawaii prior to his supposed marriage with Dunham.
From page 126 of "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama Jr. described his father's marriage with Aoko with a quotation made by his mother, "And then there was a problem with your father's first wife … he had told me they were separated, but it was a village wedding, so there was no legal documentation that could show a divorce."
Dunham was apparently referring to the suggestion of bigamy and that Barack Obama Sr.'s marriage to Aoko was a "village wedding" that possibly would not have been recognized as being legitimate by Hawaiian civil law. Sr. was reportedly a polygamist who had at least four wives, including Ruth Nidesand, whom he met at Harvard and became his wife after following him back to Kenya.
There are also peculiarities concerning the question that Obama Sr. and Dunham never lived at the address listed in the birth announcements in two local papers-6085 Kalanianaole Highway in Honolulu. The home located at this address was owned and occupied by longtime Hawaiian residents in 1961.
And there’s more, throughout the time he was in Hawaii, Barack Obama Sr. had his own separate apartment at 625 11th Ave., within walking distance of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he was enrolled in Fall 1959.
This unusual tidbit raises even further questions, in 1961 15 days after delivering the future president Dunham was registered for college classes in Seattle, according to school records.
So many questions, so many peculiarities concerning one child’s birth, particularly since he eventually became President of the United States? It sounds even more far-fetched than a soap opera.