[Washington Post]
While Team Obama has been skewering Hillary Clinton on her “mis-recalled” trip to Bosnia 12 years ago, the Washington Post has revealed that Barack Obama flat misrepresented his claim to a Kennedy family connection. Here is the story:
Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama Sen. Barack Obama traced his "very existence" to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.
The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Caroline Kennedy endorsed his candidacy in January, Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter reported that she had been struck by the extraordinary way in which "history replays itself" and by how "two generations of two families -- separated by distance, culture and wealth -- can intersect in strange and wonderful ways."
But wait. The story is simply false.
Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama's father, the Post reports.
In fact, the Kennedy’s did not lend financial support to the Kenyan airlift until a full year after Obama’s father came to the United States—who then met his mother (who was originally from Kansas) and fathered Barack before abandoning the family.
Camelot it ain’t.
More to the point, the holier than thou Obama has told a few campaign whoppers of his own.
While Team Obama has been skewering Hillary Clinton on her “mis-recalled” trip to Bosnia 12 years ago, the Washington Post has revealed that Barack Obama flat misrepresented his claim to a Kennedy family connection. Here is the story:
Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama Sen. Barack Obama traced his "very existence" to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.
The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Caroline Kennedy endorsed his candidacy in January, Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter reported that she had been struck by the extraordinary way in which "history replays itself" and by how "two generations of two families -- separated by distance, culture and wealth -- can intersect in strange and wonderful ways."
But wait. The story is simply false.
Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama's father, the Post reports.
In fact, the Kennedy’s did not lend financial support to the Kenyan airlift until a full year after Obama’s father came to the United States—who then met his mother (who was originally from Kansas) and fathered Barack before abandoning the family.
Camelot it ain’t.
More to the point, the holier than thou Obama has told a few campaign whoppers of his own.
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