AMERICA'S NEW FIRST FAMILY

Luo dancers from the Senator Barack Obama Primary School

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Barack Obama's grandmother, Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama

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U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama's uncle has been a prisoner in his own home, trapped by post election violence that has left more than 600 Kenyans dead. 'If Barack Obama were elected, he would improve relations between Africa and America because he had his roots in Africa', his uncle said.

Alan comment: please note the painting, whose corner touches the uncle's head. This kind of portrait looks like those usually found in Iran and not so often of Arabic style because of the full face and chest exposure. Could be Obama's mother?

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Malik Obama, older brother to Barack Obama, holds an undated picture of Barak, left, and himself, middle, and an unidentified friend in his shop in eastern Kenya.

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Barack has stated his support for Luo aila Odinga

(Opposition Leader in Kenya who signed a 'Shariah pact with Muslims and claims to be Obama's cousin) and is married to Ida Odinga. They have four children - two sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Fidel, is named after Fidel Castro.

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Barack's father, Muslim, but reportedly a hard-drinker, was married three times, attended Harvard and returned to Kenya. Obama claims he was an atheist, but he was raised Muslim and was given a Muslim burial at Barack's family's request.

His father with his mother Stanley Ann Dunham.

In his own autobiography Obama writes, 'How and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I have never quite had the courage to explore.' (His father was apparently still married to his first wife Kezia in Kenya at the time.)

With mother Stanley Ann Dunham.

With father during his father's only visit while Obama was in Hawaii

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Mother's 2nd husband Lolo Soetoro (Indonesian Muslim), their daughter Maya, and Obama.

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Apparently abandoned by his father and shipped off by his mother to his white grandparents, Barry Sotero becomes Barack Hussein Obama. Obama would describe his grandparents as 'white folk.' ('white folk' that would NOT abandon their grandchild).

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Obama's visit to Africa '06 Campaigning for Odinga. Are there transcripts of his speeches?

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Barack stands behind Kezia (stepmother) in a Kenyan family shot. (Including brother Abongo 'Roy' Obama who is a Luo activist and a 'Militant Muslim' who argues that the black man must 'liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.' )

Abongo's new lifestyle has left him lean and clear-eyed, and at the wedding, he looked so dignified in his black African gown with white trim and matching cap that some of our guests mistook him for my father,' Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father.