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By BEN SMITH & JEFFREY RESSNER | 4/15/08 4:43 AM
Barack Obama’s dad was such an important but absent figure in his life that he devoted his first book,“Dreams From My Father,” to the search for details about his father’s life and how the quest helped forge a son’s identity.
Now, a long-forgotten essay written 43 years ago by Obama’s father has surfaced, and its contents reveal much — not only about the senior Obama’s grasp of economic theory but also about the iconoclastic politics that, his son would later write, sent him into the spiral of career disappointment that concluded with his death in 1982 in his native Kenya.
Parts of the article, titled “Problems Facing Our Socialism,” have been making the rounds on several small blogs over the past week, but Politico.com is now, for the first time, reproducing the entire piece in its original form.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/961...

