theres a lot of info on wiki but i'll break it down to the most interesting parts.
Obama Jr. was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr., of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas.
Obama Sr. (father) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama%2C_Sr.
On his return to Kenya, Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Ministry of Transportation. In 1965 Obama wrote an important paper titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism", published in the East Africa Journal, harshly criticizing the blue print for national planning titled "African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya" produced by Tom Mboya's Ministry of Economic Planning and Development.[citation needed] Obama's paper put him on the side of communist-allied leader Oginga Odinga against pro-Western 'third way" leader Tom Mboya and the President of Keyna Jomo Kenyatta.[citation needed] As Sen. Barack Obama describes in his memoir, Obama the elder's conflict with the Kenyatta effectively destroyed his career.
Ann Dunham (mother) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_DunhamDunham's best friend in high school has said that she "touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she'd read about and could argue."[5] In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father Barack Obama wrote, "My mother's confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn't possess... In a land [Indonesia] where fatalism remained a necessary tool for enduring hard-ship... she was a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, position-paper liberalism."
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isn't it nice to know that our possible next president is the son of a terrorist and athiest? this country is falling apart.
