When Obama said
he wasn't kidding!
His half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng is 50% Indonesian (same mother, different father)and lives in Hawaii. There is an interview with her here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/magazine/20wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin
Looks like Soetoro is the Indonesian part of the name, since her husband is Konrad Ng. Their daughter is adorable:
http://www.kansasprairie.net/kansasprairieblog/?p=7491
On the father's side it gets, amazingly enough, even more complex.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/opinion/29cohen.html
It seems that Obama's father was a busy man, fathering a total of 8 children. So Obama has (or had, apparently at least one of these half siblings is no longer with us) a grand total of 9 half brothers and sisters. Obama Sr. divorced his first wife, married Obama's mother, divorced her and married another American, returned to Africa, divorced yet again and then re-married his first wife.
And I thought my family was complicated.
One thing is for certain, if Obama is the Democrat's candidate the
Republicans will dig up and leak whatever dirt they can about these half sibs. So stay tuned for "Obama's half brother was implicated in goat fighting ring", or whatever it turns out to be. With 9 half-sibs at least one of them must have something embarrassing in their past. There's always something in the family history for the hacks to get their teeth into.