The photo of Obama Sr. and allegedly Obama Jr. at the airport comes to us “courtesy of Barak Obama”. See Photo 7 here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/070323obama-early-photogallery,0,5458360.photogallery
We have established that both of the airport photos were taken at the same time and in the same terminal. Therefore if he supplied the “wedding photo” and has titled it himself, how can he justify the timeline?
That’s interesting. I posted earlier in this thread (#2018) that in his book BO, Jr. said -
“We stand together in front of the Christmas tree and pose for pictures, the only ones I have of us together,”
The only pics he has of them together are in front of the tree.
It was suggested that maybe the airport pic came from his sister, Maya.
He also might just be inaccurate in his book (again...)
The photo is posted out of order. The visit occurred while he was in 5th grade, i.e., AFTER he left Indonesia, in Xmas of 1971, I presume, since one year after he returned to Hawaii to start 1st grade, his mother moved back to join him.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-5,00.html
Thus, both his mom and dad were visiting him that Xmas from places of residence that were thousands of miles away. Obama’s appearance in the airport photo is consistent with how he looked on the couch with his Indonesian stepfather (i.e., both in terms of his face and being a little chunky) and his face looks like the one in his 5th grade picture as well. His mother’s face looks young, but she also still looks young in the Indonesian photo and the length of her hair in both photos is consistent. I don’t know when her hair grew out, but when she was in college, I assume it was closer to the short length we see here:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-5,00.html
and that is not consistent with the airport photo.
Thus, I think one has to ignore some evidence to conclude that the airport photo was from 1961 rather than 1971.
Obama never said that was a wedding picture of Barack Sr and his mother. Also the link you supply does not even show that particular picture. The only wedding picture it show is of Obama Jr. and Michelle.
See my posting at #3032.
He can't.
The date on one of them is wrong. He might even have made a mistake. But I view Ann as being too young in the first photo to be 30 at Christmas in 1972; plus we have an accurate picture of her at the Christmas tree in 1972 which establishes her as much older than the wedding photo--So I have tended to view the "wedding photo" lable as accurate; but that leaves you to explain who the boy is in the second airport photo which I cannot.