Comments on: Lessons for Obama in Kansas

By: Rage

Rage — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:36:38 +0000

You go Gerry!!!!!!

Wow. I remember when he laid out, in painstaking detail, the contradictions in Reagan’s public statements about Iran-Contra. Not something you expected to see in the WSJ!

At the time I speculated his time in captivity might have influenced his perspective a bit.

By: Kaden Owen

Kaden Owen — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:35:40 +0000

I feel the west coast sick from eating too much cake. But its a very big city you would need his one year to see it all. His one year of waiting — This whole story seems to be quite a smoggy and gray place.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:59:05 +0000

The Eagle will NOT investigate Obama.
The Eagle will hype the nearly non-existant “Kansas Connection” while the Eagle covers up all of the connections, to radicals and thugs, that the Eagle does not want us to talk about.

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:49:40 +0000

I had the privilege of knowing Gerry Seib during his one year as a student at Ft. Hays. He’s a native of Ellis, and he was as brilliant in 1974 as he is now. He went on to study at KU, and has been making Kansans proud since he left the state. He’s a good example of a small town boy doing good and doing well.

You go Gerry!!!!!!

By: JWink

JWink — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:08:02 +0000

This whole story of Barack Obama’s connection to Kansas is a bit hazy in my mind. I did read parts of his book, “From dreams of my fathers,” or something to that effect.

His grandparents seemed to have El Dorado connections but might have lived here in Wichita about the beginning of WWII. Barack’s grandmother reputedly worked at one of Wichita’s airplane manufacturers as a “Rosie the riveter” while her husband was in military service.

Sometime after WWII, the grandparents moved to the west coast and then on to Hawaii. Barack was born in 1961 when Barack’s mother was 18, his father was a very bright Kenyan but left not long after. He died in an auto accident in Kenya.

Not long after, Barack’s mother married an Indonesian fellow and moved to Indonesia, a country on which Barack’s mother focused her scholastic pursuits for some time.

From my examination, Barack probably did not visit Wichita/El Dorado until in his mid-20’s while traveling east to attend college.

This whole Obama and Kansas connection needs to be examined by an enterprising Wichita EAGLE reporter.