Beginning with getting wrong the bio of his father, Barack Obama
Sr.
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama Jr. gave a speech in Berlin tonight
and let me count the factual errors.
The first factual error to leap out was this:
At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many
others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning – his dream –
required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote
letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere
answered his prayer for a better life.
Um no.
Not hardly.
His father’s education had nothing to do with the Cold War, but
everything to do with post-colonial African politics.
Due to a program offering Western educational opportunities to outstanding
Kenyan students that was organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya, Obama Sr.
was awarded a scholarship in economics, and at the age of 23 he enrolled at the
University of Hawaii. He left behind a pregnant Kezia and their infant
son.
I know what it is like to grow up without a father. I was 2 when
my parents divorced and 47 before I met my father, Don Surber Sr.
So it is understandable that Democratic Sen. Barack Obama Jr.
might not know much about his father.
But certainly the senator has heard of Wikipedia.—Don Surber
Read the while thing and also look at some more historical inaccuracies in the comments
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