Obama, brother hold brief reunion in Beijing

[kpete]

Source: AFP

Obama, brother hold brief reunion in Beijing

(AFP) – 1 hour ago

BEIJING — President Barack Obama had a brief but emotional reunion with half-brother Mark Obama Ndesandjo in Beijing, during the US leader's first official visit to China.

"We had a big hug. And my wife and he had a big, big hug. He was very powerful, very intense, because he's my big brother," Ndesandjo said in an interview Wednesday with CNN.

Ndesandjo, who lives in Shenzhen, a southern city neighboring Hong Kong, traveled to Beijing to meet with Obama, who is now in South Korea on the last leg of a week-long sweep through various Asian countries.

Ndesandjo revealed in a soon-to-be published semi-autobiographical book that he was often physically abused by his father, Barack Obama Sr -- a revelation President Obama said is not entirely surprising.

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[groundloop]

1. Wonder what kind of crap the birthers will attach to this???

[DFW]

2. I have one scenario.......

Knowing them, they will now claim that Obama is Chinese.

[marshall]

3. That Barack Sr. had a way with the ladies?

He certainly sounds like he was a charmer.