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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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April 15th, 2008 •
Richard Cochrane
Newsmax’s Ron Kessler says Barack Obama’s story about Reverend Wright’s deprived background while he actually living a privileged life in a Philadelphia suburb In a nice house on a tree lined street with his minister father and teacher mother is mythology. He attended an elite high school and served as a corpsman before taking over a failing church using race baiting and anti-America rhetoric to build it into an 8,000 member mostly black congregation, and parlayed that into a multi-million dollar 10,500 square feet house and a $10 million credit line.