Another Obama lie: His grandfather was never detained and beaten by the British

[tinydancer]

In 2008, Sarah Onyango, Hussein Onyango's third wife, told journalists that "white soldiers" had visited the prison every few days to inflict what was described as "disciplinary action" upon inmates suspected of subversion. "He said they would sometimes squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods," she said. "They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together with his head facing down." Onyango is said to have been left permanently scarred. He was also bitterly anti-British.

More: Mau Mau victims seek compensation from UK for alleged torture | World news | The Guardian

That's seriously contradicted by a relatives and a senior Kenyan police official.

Zablon Okatch, who worked with Onyango as a servant to American diplomats after the supposed incarceration, said:

‘Hussein was never jailed. I know that for a fact. It would have been difficult for him to get a job with a white family, let alone a diplomat, if he once served in jail.’

Charles Oluoch, whose father was adopted by Onyango, said that ‘he did not have any trouble with the government in any way'.

Dick Opar, a relative by marriage to Onyango and a senior Kenyan police official, gave what Maraniss judged to be the most authoritative word. ‘People make up stories,’ he said. ‘If you get arrested, you say it was the fight for independence, but they are arrested for another thing.

‘I would have known. I would have known. If he was in Kamiti Prison for only a day, even if for a day, I would have known.’

Read more: Obama's grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham tortured by the British? | Mail Online


And there are absolutely no records of incarceration whatsoever. Maybe his grandfather was a composite like his composite girlfriend in his memoirs.

 

[Dr Grump]

In 2008, Sarah Onyango, Hussein Onyango's third wife, told journalists that "white soldiers" had visited the prison every few days to inflict what was described as "disciplinary action" upon inmates suspected of subversion. "He said they would sometimes squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods," she said. "They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together with his head facing down." Onyango is said to have been left permanently scarred. He was also bitterly anti-British.

More: Mau Mau victims seek compensation from UK for alleged torture | World news | The Guardian

That's seriously contradicted by a relatives and a senior Kenyan police official.

Zablon Okatch, who worked with Onyango as a servant to American diplomats after the supposed incarceration, said:

‘Hussein was never jailed. I know that for a fact. It would have been difficult for him to get a job with a white family, let alone a diplomat, if he once served in jail.’

Charles Oluoch, whose father was adopted by Onyango, said that ‘he did not have any trouble with the government in any way'.

Dick Opar, a relative by marriage to Onyango and a senior Kenyan police official, gave what Maraniss judged to be the most authoritative word. ‘People make up stories,’ he said. ‘If you get arrested, you say it was the fight for independence, but they are arrested for another thing.

‘I would have known. I would have known. If he was in Kamiti Prison for only a day, even if for a day, I would have known.’

Read more: Obama's grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham tortured by the British? | Mail Online


And there are absolutely no records of incarceration whatsoever. Maybe his grandfather was a composite like his composite girlfriend in his memoirs.

Pretty hard to verify anything...the above are just opinions...

 

[buckeye45_73]

It can only be a lie if he knew it was a lie. Even his step mother said as late as 2008 that it was true. Try reading the story...You right-wing loons survive on sound bites not substance...

Sounds like an excuse......I'd buy you explanation, if you didnt defend EVERYthing he's ever done.

 

[tinydancer]

It can only be a lie if he knew it was a lie. Even his step mother said as late as 2008 that it was true. Try reading the story...You right-wing loons survive on sound bites not substance...

When did he get a step mother?

 

[Wiseacre]

Another lie:

" During his presidential campaign, Obama said that his mother died of cancer after being denied coverage for a preexisting condition. He used her image in a campaign ad, repeated the claim in debates, and used the same rhetoric as President when he tried to sell ObamaCare to the American people. But a new book by New York Times reporter Janny Scott says that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, had health insurance through her employer and was only denied disability insurance. "

Top 10 Obama Lies | Conservative News, Views & Books

Or maybe the NY Times guy lied, you know how they are. The link also has 9 other Obama lies. The man plays pretty fast and loose with the truth.

 

[francoHFW]

I'll go with Grannie and the family lore, so far, over the RW propaganda machine- Including the Daily Mail and British police during Mau mau...irrelevant Pubcrappe anyway.

 

[francoHFW]

Another lie:

" During his presidential campaign, Obama said that his mother died of cancer after being denied coverage for a preexisting condition. He used her image in a campaign ad, repeated the claim in debates, and used the same rhetoric as President when he tried to sell ObamaCare to the American people. But a new book by New York Times reporter Janny Scott says that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, had health insurance through her employer and was only denied disability insurance. "

Top 10 Obama Lies | Conservative News, Views & Books

Or maybe the NY Times guy lied, you know how they are. The link also has 9 other Obama lies. The man plays pretty fast and loose with the truth.

Smells like Pubcrappe to me again- The FORMER Times reporter doesn't seem to have disagreed at all, what you say Obama said is BS...

Books of The Times
Journey and Legacy of Obama’s Mother
By CATHERINE LUTZ
Published: May 2, 2011

Pieces of the story of Ann Dunham, the mother of Barack Obama, we know already. A “white woman from Kansas,” as he referred to her at the Democratic convention in 2008, who married an African intellectual and had a son with him. A strict mother who roused that son before dawn to study. An anthropologist who spent years studying in Indonesian villages, several of those years without her son. A 52-year-old woman whose last year before succumbing to cancer was spent in part trying to convince the Cigna insurance company that she should not be disqualified from benefits by virtue of a “pre-existing condition.” These are the parts of her life that resonate with our cultural anxieties about good mothering, access to health care and, of course, race.

We get a much fuller story of Ms. Dunham’s life in “A Singular Woman,” Janny Scott’s richly researched, unsentimental book. In it, we meet a very nonordinary woman, born Stanley Ann Dunham, “singular” from her naming onward. (“My father wanted a son,” she would say, “but he got me.”)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/b...tt-portrays-obamas-mother.html?pagewanted=all

Seems to only be a problem in the GODDAMN Pub propaganda machine, as ALWAYS.

 

[syrenn]

In Obama's zeal to be a victim of the man, he made up a story about his grandfather being arrested and tortured for six months.

According to your own link, his grandmother made up the story.

You going to fault a man for believing his grandma?

When running for president... you generally check your facts. That is unless..... it is a composite of what he would want as a "grandfather" story.

 

[GoneBezerk]

"Uh" Obamination lies about everything.....

 

[francoHFW]

STILL waiting to hear one. So far only promises he couldn't keep and stuff from his granny that MIGHT be wrong.Pubcrappe. Pubs LIE nonstop- see sig pp3.

 

[salem.hills]

He's pathological

 

[Quantum Windbag]

In Obama's zeal to be a victim of the man, he made up a story about his grandfather being arrested and tortured for six months. One problem, it never happened.

Obama's grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham tortured by the British? | Mail Online

Obama lies even when it doesn't matter.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Have you never been told a family story that turned out not to be true?


really people your hate is consuming your brains

Point out anything Obama said about his past that turned out to be true.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

It can only be a lie if he knew it was a lie. Even his step mother said as late as 2008 that it was true. Try reading the story...You right-wing loons survive on sound bites not substance...

He lied about other things in his "autobiography," the evidence leads me to believe he is a liar, and that leads me to conclude that he lied here also.

 

[Dr Grump]

Have you never been told a family story that turned out not to be true?


really people your hate is consuming your brains

Point out anything Obama said about his past that turned out to be true.

He was a state senator.
He went to Harvard
His Dad was Kenyan
His mother was from Kansas
He is married to Michelle
He has two daughters
He was editor of the HLR
He was a federal senator from Illinois

I could go on....

 

[Quantum Windbag]

More: Mau Mau victims seek compensation from UK for alleged torture | World news | The Guardian

That's seriously contradicted by a relatives and a senior Kenyan police official.

Zablon Okatch, who worked with Onyango as a servant to American diplomats after the supposed incarceration, said:

‘Hussein was never jailed. I know that for a fact. It would have been difficult for him to get a job with a white family, let alone a diplomat, if he once served in jail.’

Charles Oluoch, whose father was adopted by Onyango, said that ‘he did not have any trouble with the government in any way'.

Dick Opar, a relative by marriage to Onyango and a senior Kenyan police official, gave what Maraniss judged to be the most authoritative word. ‘People make up stories,’ he said. ‘If you get arrested, you say it was the fight for independence, but they are arrested for another thing.

‘I would have known. I would have known. If he was in Kamiti Prison for only a day, even if for a day, I would have known.’

Read more: Obama's grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham tortured by the British? | Mail Online


And there are absolutely no records of incarceration whatsoever. Maybe his grandfather was a composite like his composite girlfriend in his memoirs.

Pretty hard to verify anything...the above are just opinions...

The strange thing is that his fellow students in Harvard knew he was a liar, yet you want me to believe he is a paragon of virtue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Have you never been told a family story that turned out not to be true?


really people your hate is consuming your brains

Point out anything Obama said about his past that turned out to be true.

He was a state senator.
He went to Harvard
His Dad was Kenyan
His mother was from Kansas
He is married to Michelle
He has two daughters
He was editor of the HLR
He was a federal senator from Illinois

I could go on....

Nothing from either of his autobiographies, good to know.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

In Obama's zeal to be a victim of the man, he made up a story about his grandfather being arrested and tortured for six months.

According to your own link, his grandmother made up the story.

You going to fault a man for believing his grandma?

Do you really think his own grandma would lie to him? His grandma is a willing accomplice.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Opposition to Obama doesnt equal hate. I just cant comprehend how someone can make things up about their own life. And whether he made this up or his grandmother did, he has a history of making things up for convenience sake. It's disturbing.

What's Disturbing to me is not that he made shit up. Or what ever. It's that he managed to become President and this shit was never brought out then. Shows just how Badly the press did in covering the last Presidential Election. The simply Took Obama at his word on everything he ever claimed. Guess they were to busy Trying to destroy McCain and Palin to actually check into Obama.

Uh...yeah. Sure. None of us were inundated with stories about Reverend Wright and his Holy Trinity Megamosque of Doooooom! None of us were inundated with stories about Bill Ayers. None of use were inundated with birther stories. None of us were inundated with stories about Obama the socialist. And none us of us ever heard of Joe the Plumber.

Yeah. Go with that.

I know you're not talking about the main stream media. You weren't ever "inundated" with anything hack.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Another lie:

" During his presidential campaign, Obama said that his mother died of cancer after being denied coverage for a preexisting condition. He used her image in a campaign ad, repeated the claim in debates, and used the same rhetoric as President when he tried to sell ObamaCare to the American people. But a new book by New York Times reporter Janny Scott says that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, had health insurance through her employer and was only denied disability insurance. "

Top 10 Obama Lies | Conservative News, Views & Books

Or maybe the NY Times guy lied, you know how they are. The link also has 9 other Obama lies. The man plays pretty fast and loose with the truth.

Yea. I had heard this some time back. You have to be a lowly POS to lie and exploit your own mother's death.