The Marriage of Obama’s Parents: ‘In Name Only’?

According to Dreams from My Father, the official Obama nativity story began in the fall of 1960, when Ann Dunham met Obama Sr. “in a Russian language course” at the University of Hawaii (UH).  Yet Ann’s full UH transcript hasn’t been released, and Obama Sr.’s UH transcript mysteriously went “missing” shortly after being viewed by Obama Sr. biographer Sally Jacobs.  So it will never be known if, in fact, Ann and Obama Sr. were in the same Russian class, as Dreams claims.

Whatever Ann majored in, Ann’s University of Washington (UW) transcript shows eight credits transferring from UH in which she received a grade point average of 1.35.  Maraniss’s 2012 book claims, based on “parts” of Ann’s college transcripts, that she “appeared” to “ace” two classes for eight credits and “dropped three” classes.  It is unclear how one “appears” to ace classes.