I own the tangible newspaper which is featured below. I don’t have scans yet but I have taken the following photographs for your review.
Note that the date format used is MONTH/DAY/YEAR – January 18, 2009.
Obama claims that he first traveled to Kenya a number of years after his father’s death. I’ve seen the year 1987 cited as well as the year 1988.
Kenyan newspaper The Standard has officially outed Obama as having made his first trip (they don’t admit that he was born in Kenya) in the year 1983. The photograph in the newspaper (on page 25) listed below is labeled, “Obama during his first visit to Kogelo in 1983.”
Could 1983 be a typo? It doesn’t appear to be a typo. The 1983 trip to Kenya is referenced again on page 29.
Moreover, the article on page 29 was not recycled material from other news outlets or random bits from internet. The article was created from an interview that Sarah Obama (i.e., Obama’s step grandmother) did with The Standard on Sunday newspaper.
Taken from the above photograph of page 29:
Obama has been to Kogelo, where his father grew up, three times. He first arrived in 1983, a year after his father died in a road accident.
His grandmother, Sarah Obama, who is already in the US for the inauguration, remembers the young Obama shedding tears at his father’s graveside. “He was very saddened and took time standing by the graveside,” Sarah told The Standard on Sunday in an earlier interview.
It was during that visit that he [Obama] was pictured helping Sarah to sell vegetables at Nyang’oma market.
“During that visit the family were happy to meet him, but others villagers took little notice. I was happy because I had been told about him, but had never had the opportunity to meet him,” says Sarah, now 87.”
Obama’s 2nd trip to Kenya is also cited on page 29:
Obama returned to Kogelo in 1995. This time he brought along his wife, Michele. (Note: The Standard has mispelled Michelle Obama’s first name, perhaps this newspaper is a forgery?)
Obama’s 3rd trip to Kenya is also cited on page 29:
But when Obama returned to Kogelo in 2006, things had changed and his relatives realized that he was out to make history.
The 1983 trip to Kenya is referenced again on page 29 and can be seen in photograph directly below:
Taken from the above photograph of page 29:
In one of the pictures taken by a small camera Obama had carried with him to Kogelo in 1983, he sits on the ground at a busy village market, helping his grandmother to sell sukuma wiki (kales).
In another picture, he is seated outside a grass-thatched house with an uncle, Saidi Obama. In yet another undated photo, he is pictured boarding a old matatu together with Michele from Kogelo to Kisumu. (Note: The Standard has, for second time, mispelled Michelle Obama’s first name, perhaps this newspaper is a forgery?)
One of Obama’s cousins is mentioned by name, Wilson Obama Oluoch, on page 29. I cite the cousin’s name here for record in the case that it may be of research value to someone at some point in time.
In an interesting twist The Standard on Sunday also cites, on other pages, Obama as having said or implied that his first trip to Kenya was in the year 1987 (as opposed to the year 1983). One example is listed on page 35 in which The Standard on Sunday cites a speech that Obama gave at the University of Nairobi in 2006:
Taken from the above photograph of page 35:
“The first time I came to Kenya was in 1987. I had just finished three years of work as a community organizer in low-income neighborhoods of Chicago, and was about to enroll in law school. My sister, Auma, was teaching that year at this University [University of Nairobi], and so I came to stay with her for a month.”
A second example is listed on page 17 in which The Standard on Sunday cites Obama’s book, Dreams from My Father:
Taken from the above photograph of page 17:
In his celebrated autobiography, Dreams from My Father Obama gives a detailed narration of his encounters with poverty and life as a commoner. The first time he came to Kenya in 1987, he writes, he spent a night on a couch in the sitting room of half-sister, Auma.
Jerome Corsi in Kenya
On page 5 of The Standard on Sunday a couple of columns, written by Oscar Obonyo, are dedicated to Jerome Corsi:
Oscar Obonyo refers to Jerome Corsi as being a ‘Republican strategist’ who flew to Kenya in a last-minute desperate move to scrounge for ‘incriminating evidence’.
In an odd twist Obonyo goes to state that, With nothing in particular to crucify the opponent [Obama], the Republican propaganda machinery pegged its hopes on two individuals from Obama’s fatherland – Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Obama’s half-brother, George Onyango.
I thought it was particularly and overtly clear that Corsi traveled to Kenya to, primarily, investigate Obama’s birth in Kenya and birth certificate?
In any event, Obonyo goes on further to state that, One of the missions of Dr. Corsi, who has penned a set of anti-Obama texts, was to launch his book Obama Nation that is highly critical of the President-elect. He also planned to demonstrate the close link between Obama and the Kenya PM [Prime Minister] whom he claims is a “Muslim with radical communist ideas”.
And to prove to the world that Obama was an irresponsible leader who had abandoned members of his family, he planned to hand over a sum of Sh 75,000 [Kenyan Shillings] (less than $1000 US Dollars) to “poverty -stricken” Mr. Onyango (Obama’s youngest half-brother), who resides in Nairobi’s Huruma estate (slum). However, Corsi’s mission flopped as immigration officials kicked him out of the country.
There is no mention of an investigation into a possible Kenyan birth or Kenyan birth certificate or hospital in Kenya. It appears that wanting to give 75,000 Kenyan shillings to a Obama’s young and struggling half-brother George, who lives in the Huruma slums, is something that will get you kicked out of Kenya.
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PS– Some readers may remember that in January of 2012 I published scans of every page of a similar edition of the Kenyan newspaper – The Standard. That edition was Wednesday, January 21, 2009. You can access that report via the following link:
Also in January of 2012 I published scans of every page of a Uganda’s newspaper – Daily Monitor. That edition was Wednesday, January 21, 2009. You can access that report via the following link:
No, the only forgery on this site is the Kenyan birth certificate that you tried to sell on eBay. Newspapers have typos. Get over yourself.
Hi Lucas:
I don’t know where he was born, but I know he has no produced a valid legal paper trail. It is outrageous that he was able to get so far with virtually nothing real and that all of his shady background, noxious associates and un-American ideas were endorsed by so may low information voters ( not to mention his many impeachable crimes in office since 2009).
I was extremely skeptical of your announcements initially, but you keep coming up with good points. While I don’t necessarily agree with you, I can’t agree with critics that you have been “debunked.”
I’ll go out on a limb and say that the alleged Kenyan birth certificate you delivered is at the very minimum least as good as the one on whitehouse.gov.
We posted a link to your post at: http://obamaballotchallenge.com/?p=15211
Voice of Reason wrote:
Is it 1983 or 1987 or some other year? I’m interested in your answer.
And why is that everything related to Obama contains typos? Even the Obama Sr. passports list different years of birth.
GeorgeM wrote:
Thanks George but I tried the link that you posted and it comes back as an invalid (404 error) address.
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> The Standard has, for second time, mispelled Michelle Obama’s first name, perhaps this newspaper is a forgery?
You just love to make snide side remarks, but the key difference remains:
On your forged Kenyan BC, the guy who signed it misspelled his *own* name. That’s hardly comparable to a newspaper misspelling somebody else’s name.
Besides, you misspelled “misspelled”. Twice.
> And why is that everything related to Obama contains typos?
It’s now Obama’s fault a newspaper spelled his wife’s name with one “l”? So this proves now that her name actually is “Michele” and not “Michelle” and that her documents are forgeries, too?
You always crack me up.
There are millions of doctors in the world. At least one of them must have misspelled his name at least once in his lifetime. Go, surf the entire net to find that one golden misspelling, the one that will prove your document finally true. Oh but the chances decrease since not only do we have to find the careless speller but we also have to find the one who, while misspelling his name, uses a misspelling stamp. Good luck with that one.
So here we are back to the endless quest of searching the Holy Graal of misspellings and date formats. An infinite exercise of scanning and skimming millions of websites, patiently visiting libraries for Kenyan newspapers, ordering books and documents online. Bearing the true belief that a sufficient number of misspellings and standard date formats will magically enter a lousy scam into the hall of fame of historical documents finding it’s deserved prominence alongside the Declaration of Independence, The Treaty of Versailles, The Qumran Rolls.
Your quest is bearing paranoia. You know the only possible way for you to heal is to humbly admit your scam and your failure. Get over it, you lost. Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and become a man.
The following three excerpts are taken from the ‘We the People of the United States’ post by Miri titled ‘O-Timeline’. Excerpts (1) and (2) are reproduced here just to give some background information regarding BHO-II’s general whereabouts during the year 1983.
Excerpt (3) contains CONFIRMING information regarding OBAMA’S FIRST TRIP TO KENYA IN 1983, despite his statements to the contrary, as indicated in the article appearing in ‘The Standard’ which is currently under discussion!
(1) 1981-1983 Barry goes to NYC and attends Columbia University, where he lives with Sohale Siddiqi, who is not a student but a tourist who overstayed his visa, and close by Bill Ayers and the proposed site of the WTC Mosque; Barry graduates in June 1983, BA in Political Science; various addresses: #3E, 142 W. 109th St., with Phil Boerner; #6A, 339 E. 94th St., in Yorkville; in spring ’83, Barry writes an article for the campus paper, the Sundial, about anti-war groups. Siddiqi is said to have been a waiter and to have worked in a boutique.
(2) 1983-1985 Barry is living in NYC, after graduation from Columbia (he did not attend graduation ceremony, conveniently–no photos); he allegedly works at Business International Corporation (quit late 1984) and NY Public Interest Research Group (after mid-January, 1985, until June, when he went to Chicago), where he organized students at City University. Or City College.
(3) November 24 or 26, 1982 BHO Sr. killed in a car crash in Nairobi supposedly at age 46; but he should be 44 according to Kezia; early the next year, Barry goes to Kenya “to mourn his late father”; Mama Sarah and his cousin suspected foul play ; author David Mendell says Obama first went to Kenya in 1983, after college (p. 355); if not born in Kenya, Barry was required by the Kenyan Citizenship Act to renounce other citizenships and swear an oath of allegiance to Kenya before August 4, 1984; public records state BHO Sr. died intestate on the 26th, not the 24th; accident site on Elgon Road per public records. But then again, maybe it was the 23rd. – (bold emphasis added)
Below is the link to the above referenced book by David Mendell titled, ‘Obama: From Promise to Power’
Unfortunately, the referenced page 355 is not shown in the link
http://books.google.com/books?id=n2Qn1w5IagcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=david+mendell&hl=en&ei=eTh6Tt3vIYbY0QGHxtDJAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=1983&f=false
Mendell’s book was originally published in August 2007 so it is certain that he did NOT obtain his information regarding Obama’s first trip back to Kenya, following his birth there in 1961, from the referenced January 2009 article in ‘The Standard’
To me, the most interesting aspect of this entire ‘date of Obama’s first return trip to Kenya’ matter is WHY he has chosen to lie about the date. Why doesn’t he simply acknowledge that he first visited Kenya as an adult in early 1983?
I suspect it has something to do with his attempt to HIDE his formerly secret, but now widely accepted, ABSENCE from Columbia University, while he was supposed to be a student there during that time period!
Perhaps other readers will have some different ideas on WHY Obama has chosen to lie about the very understandable matter of his visiting Kenya in 1983 to morn the death of his father!
@ Voice of Reason:
Once again this sites chief RACIST, SPOOFER & SOCK PUPPETEER posts a completely STUPID, INANE comment. Go back to where you came from Kurt the obot sites are missing their resident RACIST.
Here are three (3) pictures, one of them is the same as is listed in The Standard as being from 1983, in which Obama has the same exact clothing on and appears to be the same age. It is my position that all three of the photographs were taken in Kenya in 1983 (and probably on all on the same day):
Lucas Daniel Smith wrote:
I AGREE, although the 1983 date is different from the 1987 date given, as just one example, in the caption on the AP photo shown in in the following link. The photo was part of the ‘Telegraph’ presentation titled, ‘Barack Obama – A Life in Pictures –
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/2071443/Barack-Obama-a-life-in-pictures.html?image=8
The Kenya birth line is and has always been a phony diversion. Make no mistake, he was born in the US…and if the whole truth about his real origins see the light of day, there will be utter SHOCK clear across the country.