Its funny how the Democrat media have managed to black out all the news on who Obama was before the election. As his political star was rising, his Kenyan birth was part of his publicity spiel, using the USA is such a great country even a poor boy from Kenya can do good there angle. Even though there are copies of newspaper articles that refer to his Kenyan origins still to be found, the left today decry these claims as incorrect.
However one of the most telling pointers to Obama’s Kenyan birth comes in a story related by Race Bannon, a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, who had a chance meeting with Barack Obama in the vicinity of Kalakaua Boulevard one evening in early August of 1980. Obama was at that time calling himself Barry Soetero. Bannon engaged Barry in conversation, and recently wrote an essay recounting that chat.
We spoke of where I had been and the world as I saw it. I told him I had been to Africa , Mombassa specifically, and he said to me abruptly, “I was born there.” I told him he is not eligible to be president if that was true, but I remembered he said his mom was an American, so, maybe it was okay. But it was what I did after that makes this a true memory: I went back to the barracks and told others of this guy and suggested we all grab our photo albums and visit him again and show him pictures of Mombassa so he could see where he was from.
No one wanted to go, and at that time, my camera had failed me weeks before we hit Mombassa and it was late August or early September until I had borrowed someone else’s pictures to develop myself so I had copies of where I was. But I never forgot meeting that man for those reasons. I was going to do him a favor and show him his home country of birth. And I never went back for some reason, most likely I forgot to or just felt that a one time chance encounter would be meaningless to both of us and didn’t mean we were friends.
In the light of what is called “The Birther” movement, these memories are still foremost in my mind concerning this. While I cannot swear it was Barak Obama, all the details I do remember of that chance encounter fit the profile of the man who some people claim is born in Kenya and others claim he was born in Hawaii . The man I met was about 18, thin, Mulatto, told me he was born in Mombassa, raised overseas, was living in Hawaii and hadn’t yet been to many places in the world outside of those places, mostly, hadn’t been to the mainland of America for any long time period if at all. And he openly told me he wanted to be President.
And I remember that face, the face of a young man who sat on a table to my right front, his hands resting on the edge of the table, him leaning forward, his smile, all teeth. It was Barak Obama. I don’t know if I’d bet my life on it, but I am willing to tell people openly at the risk of my ridicule. I was there, and saw him, spoke to him, and he openly told me he was born in Mombassa, Kenya, not Hawaii .
From a post made by Race Bannon to The Free republic Forum.
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3 responses to “Obama’s Past Frank Admission That He Was Born In Mombassa, Kenya”
“I told him he is not eligible to be president if that was true,”
Oh, everybody in 1980 would insert”you’re not eligible to be president” into their conversations when speaking with a foreign born American. It was the thing back then. Really. /s
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I think Obama was working in an icecream shop at the time, and there was preamble that I left out where Obama had stated something like he did not want to serve ice cream all his life but wanted to become President. Then Bannon said, Oh you can’t be President if you were born in Mombassa. I should have left it in so the context was more accurate.
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… and there must be numerous other individuals from when Obama was around 18 to whom he would have said much the same thing – “I was born in Mombassa”.
Not to forget all his Kenyan relatives, of course, who know where he was born.
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