Teacher from Kenmore Recalls Obama was a Focused Student

Ever wonder just how far the corrupt mainstream media will go to cover up for Obama?  Check out this story from 2009...

Note that "Dr. Rodney T. West" is NOT listed anywhere on the Certificate of Live Birth Obama released in April of 2011.  Dr. David Sinclair is listed as the obstetrician who delivered Obama.

Barbara Nelson's story is 100% false - or Obama is lying!

By Paula Voell, Buffalo News Staff Reporter (January 20, 2009)

   
   When Barack Hussein Obama places his hand on the Bible today to take
   the oath of office as 44th president of the United States, Barbara
   Nelson of Kenmore will undoubtedly think back to the day he was born.
   It was Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children
   in Honolulu.

   I may be the only person left who specifically remembers his birth.
   His parents are gone, his grandmother is gone, the obstetrician who
   delivered him is gone, said Nelson, referring to Dr. Rodney T. West,
   who died in February at the age of 98. Heres the story: Nelson was
   having dinner at the Outrigger Canoe Club on Waikiki Beach with Dr.
   West, the father of her college friend, Jo-Anne. Making conversation,
   Nelson turned to Dr. West and said: So, tell me something interesting
   that happened this week, she recalls.

   His response: Well, today, Stanley had a baby. Now thats something to
   write home about.

   The new mother was Stanley (later referred to by her middle name of
   Ann) Dunham, and the baby was Barack Hussein Obama.

   I penned the name on a napkin, and I did write home about it, said
   Nelson, knowing that her father, Stanley A. Czurles, director of the
   Art Education Department at Buffalo State College, would be interested
   in the Stanley connection.

   She also remembers Dr. West mentioning that the babys father was the
   first black student at the University of Hawaii and how taken he was
   by the babys name.

   I remember Dr. West saying Barack Hussein Obama, now thats a musical
   name, said Nelson, who grew up in Kenmore and went to Hawaii in 1959
   to be in Jo-Annes wedding party. When Nelson was offered a job as a
   newspaper reporter and photographer at her friends wedding reception,
   it led to her living in Hawaii for 47 years. She returned to Kenmore
   in 2006.

   Ten years after that memorable birth announcement, Nelson would hear
   the Obama name again. This time, the father, now a Kenyan government
   official, was coming to speak at the Punahou School in Honolulu where
   Nelson was teaching and where his 10-year-old son was a newly enrolled
   fifth-grader.

   Dr. Obama had this lovely, attentive manner, she said. When he
   answered the childrens questions, he would do it as a story, which is
   the way they do it in Kenya.

   His son, whom he hadnt seen in eight years, seemed as fascinated as we
   all were, said Nelson, who went on to be a high school principal, a
   harpist, a watercolor artist and poet.

   A few years later, Nelson encountered Barry again, when she watched
   high school basketball games, where her students played.

   The team came alive when he got on the court, she said. He was not
   only quick and graceful, but he could see the pattern and zero in on
   the opening. Though he wasnt a starter, he was a graceful, passionate
   athlete who played back-up forward. He had a definite presence on the
   court.

   I often sat with his grandmother, who was a no-nonsense woman with
   these very solid Midwestern ways about her, said Nelson. She loved
   that boy and he adored her.

   As a high school teacher of British, Biblical and Middle Eastern
   literature, Nelson taught Obama.

   He wasnt usually the first one to speak, but he was an attentive,
   active listener, she said. While the others might be bouncing off the
   surface, he came straight from the center. He picked up on the
   patterns of ideas and then hed make a statement that moved the class
   to the focal point.

   He also had a lovely, engaging sense of humor, Nelson said. He was
   firm, but he wasnt aggressive or in your face.

   During one class the question was posed of what should we be most
   afraid, drawing answers that included death, hell, biological warfare,
   fear and isolation, said Nelson.

   I recall Barack sitting in the back of the room, Nelson said,
   demonstrating a hands-behind-his- head pose and describing his lanky,
   outstretched legs.

   When he pulled himself upright I thought Bingo. Here we go, she said,
   expecting the discussion to move to a new level.

   And he said, Words. Words are the power to be feared most. Every
   individual has an unmonitored arsenal and whether they are directed
   personally or internationally, words can be weapons of destruction.

   It was such moments that led Nelson to honor Obama at his 1979
   graduation with the traditional draping of a lei around his neck.

   I had a yellow plumeria tree and I could get only enough blossoms to
   make five leis, she said. I had taught more than 200 students, but one
   of those leis went around the shoulders of Barack Obama.

   Years later, the ideas Obama expressed resonated as Nelson wrote War
   of the Words, which includes the lines: I fear the powerful pugnacious
   words, Weapons that miss the flesh and pierce the heart. (Songs of
   Honor, 2006).

   In the authors notes, Nelson describes the classroom discussion with
   Obama that inspired the poem and she adds this information:
   Interestingly, this former student is now a very wise, articulate
   U.S. senator.


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