Dr. Frank Einstein (31 page)

   
  Sidney Ann Dunham was born in Kansas.  Her ancestors immigrated to Massachusetts in the sixteen thirties. She is my mother’s fifth cousin.  After World War II her parents moved from one state to another, managing stores.   They ended up in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Her parents joined both her husbands as alcoholics—a poor states of affairs for Muslims.

    
Barak Sr.’s mother was a nominal Christian and his father was a nominal Muslim.  Barak Sr. had no use for religion.  His only interests were getting into Harvard and satisfying his self-indulgences. 

    
Sidney was only twenty and a junior at the University of Hawaii at the birth of her only son. Certainly, she would have had no compunction of leaving the country.  She wanted to research inter racial marriages, therefore she set out to marry a black man.  Yet there were few black people in Hawaii, besides those at the university and in the military. Yet she was at the university. She picked a jet setting nephew of one of the kings in Kenya. The British had artificially craved up African kingdoms. Therefore there are many kingdoms that went in and out of Kenya.  Barak Sr.’s relationship to the king gave a privilege at least the ability to attend university in the United States.

    
Barak Jr, who was nicknamed Barry, was only two years old when his mother took him to Seattle, Washington, to escape the physical abuse of Barak Sr.   They stayed on the lam there until Barak Sr. left Hawaii for Harvard.  Barry has no memory of his father, except for a brief get-together when he was a teen ager.

       After her ill faded marriage with the womanizing and abusive, Barak Obama Sr., she returned of Hawaii to finish her Bachelor of Science in Anthropology. It was there she met the Indonesian Lolo Satoro, who was getting his Masters in Geography.  He and Ann married in nineteen sixty five. After he received his Masters, he took his wife and step son to Jakarta, Indonesia.  He was a nominal Muslim.

   
   Neither Ann nor her husband had an interest in religious faith. Their interests were career and family. In Jakarta Barry enrolled in kindergarten at a state school.  At this school was a Mosque but it also had a Christian chapel.  According to Indonesia law public schools must provide students access to all their religions.  As oppose to the United States who prohibits all religious access to their students in state schools.   However, in second grade Barry attended St. Francis Catholic School in Jakarta.

     
His step father was kind but distant. He left Barry's rearing to his wife. Barry tried to stay out of his step father's way. He did not want to cause tension between his parents. At least his mother did not suffer in her second marriage as she did in her first.  Thus Barry began his extreme adverseness towards conflict. Barry will do anything to not incur opposition.

      
His mother was worried that he would lose touch with his American roots. At ten years old, Barry was sent back to Hawaii to be raised by his maternal grandparents. They raised him from ten years old to eighteen and beyond.

      
About the time Barry was in high school, Ann shuttled to and back between Indonesia and Hawaii.  She completed her Masters and Doctorate in anthropology at the University of Hawaii.  This put a strain on her marriage.  Her Husband wanted her to be a housewife and he wanted more children. Their fifteen year marriage ended in nineteen eighties.

       Curiously Ann continued to work in Indonesia, as well as Pakistan, until her death in nineteen
ninety three.  While in college, Barry went to visit his mother in Pakistan. Of course this was the time that President Reagan felt good about this region. A vote for Afghanistan and Pakistan is a vote for President Reagan.  This is when President Ronald Reagan and Osama bin Laden were on the same side.  Like that has not change.

      
Barak Sr. worked in Government service in Kenya after getting his Masters at Harvard.  He married and divorced a third time. Finally he lived with a woman who bore his seventh child. He was killed in a car accident in nineteen eighty three.

      
Barry’s grandmother had become the first woman bank vice president in Hawaiian history. His family was affluent. Between his mother and grandparents they afforded to send Barry, and later his half-sister Maya Satoro, to the most prestigious private school in Hawaii.  This school, while Barry was there, never had African American students.

      
Barry was a studious student and unassuming. In nineteen seventy nine he began to attend Occidental College in Claremont, California. Except for the two years in Seattle this was the first time out of Asia. Hawaii is the United State in Asia. It was the first time he met many African Americans. His junior year, He transferred to Columbia University.   He graduated from Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in nineteen eighty three.

        After graduating from Columbia, He became a community organizer in Chicago. He attended an evangelical progressive church. He had attended this church for twenty years.

        After eight years in Chicago, he entered Harvard Law School. He was the editor of the Harvard Law Review.    At this posi
tion, he received much liberal consternation for involving Republicans on the review. This was a precedent in the law school history.

        After Receiving a Law Degree, he became an associate professor of Law at the much more conservative University of Chicago.  At C
hicago he rekindled a romance with one of the University’s lawyers, Michelle Robinson.  She had grown up in an economic struggling family that lived in a middle class section of south side of Chicago.  She was African American. There were married in nineteen ninety two.  Thus, Obama is the first and only United States president to have an interracial marriage.

      
His Presidential decisions of his first two years led to Republicans recapturing the House.  This is because of the disenchantment of some who voted for him, but was now angered by his right winged positions. They did not vote at all in two thousand ten.

      
President Obama is a Republican. The Republicans won the House by default.  Obama's support base refused to vote for him because of Obama care.  Obama care is created verbatim from the nineteen ninety five Republicans response to President Clinton healthcare bill, that Clinton presented to congress. It was inspired by the Massachusetts Healthcare act that was signed into law by then Republican governor Mit Romney. Obama care is the ultimate of Republican policy. Romney got the idea from the super conservative Pat Robertson’s lobby, Heritage Foundation. It is one of the many right winged policies of President Obama that makes him Republican. The reason that Obama care, aka Romney care, is so Republicanize is it makes having private health insurance mandatory by Law.  Nothing pleases Republicans more than forcing Americans to buy from Big Business.

 
     It is the same with defense; President Obama is forcing the United States to buy more and more military stuff through defense contracts. Obama has increased dramatically United States presence in Afghanistan. Ironically, he received the Nobel Peace Prize because the Nobel Committee thought he was going to reduce the military presence in Afghanistan. Congressman Ron Paul says that the United States should be completely out of Afghanistan.  However, President Obama continued the Bush’s military expansionist policies.

      
The complex is dedicated to stopping the stimulus packet. The stimulus packet should have been several times bigger. The crash of two thousand and eight caused a depression not recession. The economy favors big Business and the rich. President Obama is too conservative to do another decent sized stimulus package. Right now Singapore and China are experiencing double digit growth. These countries have more government control over their economy than United States, yet far out perform the United States.; Singapore is not suffering the unemployment that we have because their government provides economic incentives for hiring people.  Obama provides no government incentives for corporations.

     
In nineteen thirty three peacetime massive spending was how the United States ended the Great Depression. It worked.  But then the Republicans would get the United States Supreme Court to declare this spending unconstitutional.  The Republicans delayed the recovery of the Great Depression for years.  It was when massive spending was done for military purposes that Republicans allowed government spending.  Massive peacetime spending has same effect as massive military sending. Does Obama do this? 

      No.  Instead, he concentrates on right wing militarism: He refuse to close Gitmo, he signed the Defense Authority Act of two thousand thirteen (This enabled the government to detained Americans that the Federal Government deems as terrorists indefinitely without trail.  Thus, this deemed them unlawful combatants).  There is still rendition, Warrantless wiretap, and though publically he banned it, secretly there is still torture.  He has only made cosmetic regulations on Wall Street.  How is he a republican?

                                                       Chapter Forty Two

      Noeme acquired a tourist visa.

       I found myself at the International terminal.  I searched and looked and searched and looked the gang way and reception area. Wondering if she even got on the plane.  All of a sudden, she appeared in front of me. We startled each other. Warmth of a beautiful familiar face in a mist of discombobulated figures. She had been speaking to a group of older Filipinos when; she turned to me.

     
After saying our pleasantries we left them and boarded the Hampton Inn Shuttle.  I took her to the Room. Noeme Freshened up. I lay in bed.  She came out and climbed into bed. My forlornness relieved.

    
  My wife did not like the complimentary Hampton Inn breakfast. She demanded fried rice. I felt loss of Freedom forced to buy breakfast for her instead of getting it for free.  I felt alone.  

      
The type of conduct that I used the next day caused Noeme to question it:  if this is the way it was in the United States.  I rode in Los Angeles county public transportation for free.  However I lost my Access ID. I told the bus driver I lost it. The Driver let me pass.  We had fried rice in Chinatown.

      
But what got her feeling more frightened was on the train.   The sheriff’s deputies would check tickets and Access IDs. She felt we would be arrested for the crime of not having a ticket.

      
“I’m scared.” She said.

      
But I just gave them my id number. They let me continue on my way.

      For the next year we lived in that same Room, as I sub for one hundred fifty United States Dollars a day.  She found that there were no jobs for her because of her visa.  She would study for the General Educational Diploma (GED), but she completely failed the test. Later she revealed she failed it on purpose.  She became bored with her life in America. She was reduced watching TV until I came home.

     
She always wanted to buy things: queen size bed when that was provided already; an expensive laptop; worse a diamond pendent and a car.

      
I had some timeshare usages and we used five weeks of them in Flagstaff, Las Vegas, Scottsdale, Mesquite, Lake Tahoe, and Brian’s Head.  I wanted to do this with her because I so enjoyed exploring islands, rivers and highlands.

      
We drove to Tehachapi in the two thousand and six blue Sentra I just acquired a week before.  I felt compelled to buy it because no one would lend me a car. Though the timeshare   had a short distance of sixty miles from Palmdale, public transportation did not traveled early enough to get me to work on time. Such a situation required the use of a car much to my chargrin.  ‘A spacious one bedroom unit made up the timeshare.   One evening, in a cud-a-sac of large houses, I let Noeme drive the Sentra. She spurted a short way. She never wanted to do it again after that short minute.

       “Why are we doing so many? I hate all this travelling” she would say over and over.

      
We toured an ostrich and an alpaca farm nearby the timeshare. We could interact with the alpacas but not with the ostriches.  As we petted the alpaca a panoramic view of mountains appeared in the background through crisp air and bright sunshine.  People roamed about casually.