Disregarding all the furor concerning Barack's legal status to serve, the questions in the article lead me to wonder how a mixed race person on a Fulbright scholarship as a foreign student could afford to make a trip around the world, became a millionaire on a $12,000/year job as a community organizer, became a senator, and is now president?

 Legitimate Questions:
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. I voted for Obama. McCain was a Washington insider and we don’t need any more of them. I have changed my mind three times, since then. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view CNN, and  Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. I started thinking "Where did all the money come from for President Obama to be able to get where he is"? 

I have four daughters who went to College. We were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard, and there were lots of student loans. I started looking into Obama's history for my own peace of mind.

Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California . He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies.

"Barry" (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan . During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a "round the world" trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia , next Hyderabad in India , three weeks in Karachi , Pakistan, where he stayed with his roommate's family, then off to Africa to visit his father's family.

My question - "Where did he get the money for this trip?" Neither I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they were in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York . It is at this time he wanted everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ? It's not cheap! to say the least. My girls asked me; "Where did he get money for tuition?" Student Loans? Maybe, it’s none of my business?

After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago?

Why not New York ? He was already living in New York . "By chance???" he met Antoin "Tony" Rezko, born in Aleppo, Syria , and a real estate developer in Chicago . Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery several times in the past and in 2011. Rezko, was named "Entrepreneur of the Decade" by the "Arab-American Business and Professional Association". About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School . Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans? His family had no money...that’s for sure.
 
After Law school, he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down.

But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what I discovered?

They represented "Rezar" which is Rezko's firm! Rezko was one of Obama's first major financial contributors

when he ran for office in Chicago . In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with "seed money" for his U.S. Senate race.

In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for this property? On the same day Rezko's wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama's new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.

Suddenly, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama's boss.

She is now Obama's Chief Advisor and he will not make any major decisions without talking to her, first.

Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz ,Iran! Am I going nuts, or is there a pattern forming here?

On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley, advisor to Obama was "sacked" after the press found out he was having regular contacts with "Hamas", a radical Muslim group which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran . Buried in the back part of the newspapers was an article: Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama's visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will "Take care of things". What the heck does that mean?

Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that were born in Pakistan ?

They are in charge of all those "small" Internet campaign contributions for Obama.

Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? 

Or is that just 'a cover' and could it be coming from the Middle East?

And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2009, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on "This Week" with George  Stephanopoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, "My Muslim faith". When questioned, "he said he made a mistake".  Some mistake huh?

All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia,

Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981;

The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.

Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my own.   Why didn''t all of our "intelligent" members of the press been digging into his background and report this? Or are they in the Kettle of Fish, too??

As Arseno Hall would say.----HUMMMMMMM!  Does something stink or is it my imagination?

 These are legitimate questions for the president.