The Great Soetoro

Mia Marie Pope was born in 1963 in California and her family moved to Oahu Hawaii when she was still an infant. All her formative years were spent in that area of Honolulu.

In 1977, Ms. Pope first became acquainted with a local student a bit older than she who was always known to her and to everyone else in her circle of teenage friends as BARRY SOETORO and by no other name. Barry Soetoro identified and portrayed himself as a foreigner, as a foreign student attending a very prestigious prep school. Until Ms. Pope connected Barry Soetoro with the man running for the U.S. presidency in 2008, she had never heard the name BARACK OBAMA. It appears that Barry Soetoro morphed into Barack Obama in the interval between his attending Occidental College in California and supposedly attending Columbia University in NYC. Before Occidental the man was Barry Soetoro; after Columbia he was Barack Obama. 

Mia Marie Pope was never a real close friend of Barry Soetoro. Mostly it was with the others which both she and Soetoro hung out with at the beaches. In fact, according to Ms. Pope, Soetoro had no close friends, just a collection of fringe acquaintances.

What Ms. Pope remembers most about Barry Soetoro was that he was a self-aggrandizing, pathological liar who seemingly was unable to tell the truth at any time. He recited such outlandish stories that anything out of his mouth was dismissed out of hand by his own peers. One other annoying habit of Soetoro was always "bumming" cigarettes.

However, Ms. Pope clearly recalls a darker side of Barry Soetoro. In the late 1970s in Honolulu buying powder cocaine was expensive and few of her friends could afford it. But not Soetoro who actually bragged about his plentiful supply for his choice of getting high - freebase smoking of cocaine. The source of this supply was known to have come from older White men. The common opinion of the others was that Barry Soetoro was providing homosexual sex in exchange for the cocaine powder.

This was surmised because Barry Soetoro was part of the homosexual community of the Diamondhead area. He never dated girls and appeared to be strictly into men - older, White men. Ms. Pope never considered involving herself or dating Soetoro as he was in her evaluation then "the scumbag type" and a gay, cocaine smoking leech. 

Mia Marie Pope knew nothing about Barry Soetoro's mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro but remembered very clearly the apartment complex where his grandparents, the Dunhams, lived. The area was far from being affluent and Ms. Pope wondered how the grandparents were able to afford Barry's exclusive prep school which cost $600/$700 a month to attend. 

Ms. Pope truly believed that the reason that his surviving grandparent, the Dunham grandmother, never publicly endorsed her own grandson for the office of U.S. president was that the woman knew and "saw right through" the character and sham and simply just could not in good conscience endorse him.

Mia Marie Pope initially withheld what she knew about "Obama" to give the man the benefit of discerning if he had changed in character before blowing a whistle on him. That possibility quickly evaporated in his first
days in office. She did then contact the FBI as to Obama's apparent use of a bogus Social Security number but was completely stonewalled by them.

When recently asked, Ms. Pope considered and still considers Barry Soetoro/Barack Obama not trustful enough "to walk the dog".