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To: Brumar89 who wrote (317240)	7/29/2009 10:08:57 AM
From: Alan Smithee	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

And a Kenyan student would have no big interest in disputing the birth. He's going to go back home eventually, no child suppport worries for him. And he did go home, abandoning Little O and his mother. Understand he made one brief appearance when Little O was 10 and that was it. On the other hand, wasn't Frank Davis more of an ongoing influence in Little O's life as he was growing up? From Wiki: Davis and Barack Obama In his memoir Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama wrote about "Frank", a friend of his grandfather's. "Frank" told Obama that he and Stanley (Obama's maternal grandfather) both had grown up only 50 miles apart, near Wichita, although they did not meet until Hawaii. He described the way race relations were back then, including Jim Crow, and his view that there had been little progress since then. As Obama remembered, "It made me smile, thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power, dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same sixties time warp that Hawaii had created."[14] Obama also remembered Frank later in life when he took a job in South Chicago as a community organizer when he took some time one day and visited the areas where Frank had lived and wrote in his book, "I imagined Frank in a baggy suit and wide lapels, standing in front of the old Regal Theatre, waiting to see Duke or Ella emerge from a gig." [15] Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of Political Affairs magazine, claimed that "Frank" was Davis, and that he was a "decisive influence" in helping Obama to find his present identity as an African-American.[16] Claims that Davis was a political influence on Obama were made in the anti-Obama book The Obama Nation.[17] A rebuttal to The Obama Nation released by Obama's presidential campaign, titled Unfit for Publication, confirms that "Frank" was, in fact, Frank Marshall Davis, but disputes claims made about the nature of their relationship.[18]