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Obama Brother Surfaces in Britain

Kenyan Bernard 'so proud' of candidate

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 26, 2008 10:53 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Barack Obama’s Kenyan half-brother Bernard has emerged in England after a British tabloid tracked him down. Bernard Obama told the Sun he was “proud of my brother” and said he was sure Barack would win the White House. “He will be a breath of fresh air for the world,” said Bernard, 37, who was visiting his mother in the UK. Obama has eight half-siblings.

Bernard, who runs a car parts company in Nairobi, shares a father, Barack Sr., with the presidential hopeful. The elder Barack married Bernard’s mother Kezia in 1957 in Kenya; he was educated in Hawaii, where he had Obama with his second wife, Ann Dunham, and later returned to Kenya, where he became a leading government economist. “I was around 17 when I first met Barack,” said Bernard. “It was obvious from the way he spoke that he was going to be a success.”

In this Aug. 26, 2006 file photo, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., claps hands with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, at his father's house in Nyongoma Kogelo village in western Kenya.
In this Aug. 26, 2006 file photo, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., claps hands with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, at his father's house in Nyongoma Kogelo village in western Kenya.   (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
A Kenyan vendor sells a motorist a newspaper bearing a front page story about U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, Thursday, June 5, 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya.
A Kenyan vendor sells a motorist a newspaper bearing a front page story about U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, Thursday, June 5, 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya.   (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
A photograph of Barack Obama Sr., father of the Democratic presidential hopeful, hangs on the wall of the younger Barack's grandmother's house in the village of Kogelo, Kenya.
A photograph of Barack Obama Sr., father of the Democratic presidential hopeful, hangs on the wall of the younger Barack's grandmother's house in the village of Kogelo, Kenya.   (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
U.S.Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., leaves 10 Downing Street in London after a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Saturday, July 26, 2008.
U.S.Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., leaves 10 Downing Street in London after a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Saturday, July 26, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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