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Obamaunism 101: The Stanley Ann and Madelyn Dunham factor

Posted on 12/14/2008 3:52:20 PM PST by jetxnet

The following information was extrapolated and formulated from Mitchell Langbert's Blog for November 18.

Communsim from day 1

It is reported that Obama's grandparents were members of the CPUSA communist party. Also his mother Ann Dunham. Obama's mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a big time player in the CPUSA in Chicago before leaving for Hawaii to live. Obama ends up where? Chicago. Obama immediately joined the NEW PARTY when he arrived and they helped him get elected to the Illinois senate.

Who died and when?

Ann Dunham's father seemingly never died and married another woman. Ann seemingly never died and is alive and well to this day. Did Obama's grandmother really die recently?

Keep in mind there were no funerals, just memorial services for each person. Also, there is no record of a Stanley Ann Dunham having been treated and dying in a Cancer Institute in Hawaii that Obama has made claim to. They have no record of her having died or even being there at all.

What we're told

- November 7, 1995, Stanley Ann (Dunham-Obama) Soetoro allegedly died of “ovarian cancer” at age “56.” Her body was cremated; there was no funeral. Memorial service held in her honor at the University of Hawaii. No info on BHO attending; But “helped scatter her ashes over the Pacific Ocean.”

Problems with the story

- An alias for Stanley Ann Dunham was found as a “relative/associate” of Madelyn L. Dunham, Honolulu, HI: “Kelly A. Dunham.”

- Dunhams had only one daughter, Stanley Ann. Therefore, Kelly Ann, who does not seem to have any other history, is likely an alias for Stanley Ann.

An alias search for Stanley Ann at recordsarea.com shows the following information:

* Kelly A. Dunham, associate/relative of Madelyn L. Dunham, Honolulu, HI;
* Kelly A. Shippleck (Kelly A. Dunham), Phoenix, AZ [is this a third marriage or an alias for real estate/money laundering?].
* Sandra Dunham (Sandra Lee Dunham), OH, FL
* Susan N. Dunham, HI, CA. Ste (Stephen) Dunham, Honolulu, HI (Stanley Ann chooses another male name?)
* Stephen O. Dunham, Honolulu, HI
* Scott A. Dunham, (Stanley Ann chooses a second male name?), HI, WA, OR, TN, VA, IN.

Each of the aforementioned aliases contains one or more references to the above examples. In cases where the trail seemingly ends, one needs only to cross-reference the “relatives/associates” and the trail continues. Some entries show as many as “99 addresses” in one city and “160 relatives/associates

ACTIVE social security check on Stanley Ann Dunham

Her SSN is 535-40-8522 from Ancestry.com

A search at intelius.com using that SS# returns 2 addresses in Honolulu, HI and one address for NY,New York.

Stanley Ann's age for this record is shown to be age 66.

Doing a Whitepages.com search yields the following results:

Stanley A. Dunham
320 E. 43rd St.
NY, NY 10017
Telephone Number 212-573-5000
Job Title: Part of the Gender Equality Program
Co Ford Foundation

It has been reported that Stanley Ann Dunham was at Ford Foundation during Barack’s Columbia years.

A reverse phone number search for the Ford Foundation number returns an individual by the name of Scott Terkowitz

Did Scott Terkowitz take over that phone number and office? It looks like he had a California license and a West Virginia license to practice.

Virginia Board of Dentistry

Scott T********, Clifton Forge, VA Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 043290; Cal. No. 21162 Regents Action Date: January 12, 2004 Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 21 months of suspension=2 0stayed, probation 2 years.

Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having been found guilty of professional misconduct by the Virginia Board of Dentistry.

New York State Education Department Office of the Professions

Summaries of Regents Actions on Professional Misconduct and Discipline January 12, 2004

A search for the Ford Foundation Address:

320 E. 43rd St. New York

There 36 places (mostly medical related) associated with this address. Not uncommon for large office buildings. Each business in the building have their own phone number, as you would expect.

The phone for the first place (a medical firm) on the list was searched and it returned 24 people having the same and IDENTICAL phone number but with DIFFERENT addresses, even out of state, for that number.

The common denominator of these results is each address is a different one for a different PHD Medical Doctor, but with the same phone number

It is possible this is a national group but very odd having different addresses.

The Ford Foundation and Stanley Ann's connection there

It is reported that Ann Dunham worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia for many years.

Going to the Ford Foundation website, the following information is given:

The Jakarta office makes grants in Indonesia.
Ford Foundation
P.O. Box 2030
Jakar ta 10020, Indonesia
Tel. (+62) 21-252-4073
Fax (+62) 21-252-4078
ffjakarta@fordfound.org

The Ford Foundation began working in Indonesia, from an office located in Jakarta, in 1953. Over the years, we have provided more than $450 million in grants in selected fields.

The great diversity of Indonesia’s people and their culture—in terms of geography, religion, and social differences—is a source of strength and innovation. At the same time, the nation’s ethnic and linguistic diversity presents challenges, and certain groups are significantly marginalized in their access to resources or participation in decisions that affect their lives.

Broad, Evolving Focus

The grant-making focus of the foundation has evolved over the years in response to the shifting political and economic landscape and the changing needs and priorities of Indonesia’s people and communities.

Today, we are making major commitments in a range of areas, including local philanthropy; natural resources management, rural livelihoods and community empowerment; sexuality and reproductive health; governance and civil society; media, arts and culture; and formal and alternative education. Grants in these areas have been designed to strengthen individual and institutional capabilities, support innovative practices and disseminate information on successful approaches”

The current analysis now raises this question:

Q Are these doctors involved with Organ Harvesting/Trafficking?

Rising trade in Human Organs is Alarming. You can read the article on this here: http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2008/11/contrairimairi-raises-baffling.html

Indonesia is one of the "hot-spots" for organ trading.

Q Are the people currently associated with the building that houses THE FORD FOUNDATION at 320 E. 43rd St. involved in another body organ trafficking ring?

Concerning Ann Dunham helped with microeconomics in Indonesia...so why her job title at Ford Foundation for Gender Equality?

The same pattern holds true for doing searches on the other phone numbers listed in the initial results. Each one returns a different list of Contacts, but each with the same phone number and yet different address. Each one is a Medical PHD.

A search for Ann Dunham and the Ford Foundation at rantburg.com yields this result:

Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama Former Menteng student now US President “Dunham-Soetoro became a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development on setting up a village credit program, then a Ford Foundation program officer in Jakarta specializing in women’s work. Later, she was a consultant in Pakistan, then joined Indonesia’s oldest bank to work on what is described as the world’s largest sustainable microfinance program, creating services like credit and savings for the poor.”

Dunham Foreign Profit Businesses

Some have these business-fronts have lapsed or withdrawn.

A search for Dunham businesses at governmentfilesonline.com yield some of the following results

DUNHAM ASSOCIATES, INC. FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION Annual Filings FILING YEAR DATE RECEIVED STATUS 2004 Mar 22, 2004 Rejected 2003 Jan 16, 2003 Processed 2002 Not Required 2001 Processed 2000 Processed 1999 Processed

TRADE NAME DUNHAM ENTERPRISES FILE NUMBER 321149 ZZ CERTIFICATE NUMBER 4034202 STATUS Active PURPOSE CONSULTING EXPIRATION DATE Jun 27, 2010 REGISTRATION DATE Jun 28, 2005 MAILING ADDRESS 1134 KINAU ST #901 HONOLULU, Hawaii 96814 UNITED STATES REGISTRANT PATRICIA ANN DUNHAM

A search using bocweb.dlnrbc.hawaii.gov for businesses associated with Stanley Dunham yield the following results.

Notice the Ford Foundation comes up.

THE FORD FOUNDATION *All Filings

THIS IS THE ADDRESS WHERE STANLEY ANN DUNHAM WORKED FOR THE FORD FOUNDATION AT 320 E. 43RD ST. NYC NY NOTICE THAT THESE FILES ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO BE VIEWED!!!

2. Debtor Names: FORD FOUNDATION T/A REST. ASSOC. 320 E. 43RD ST., NYC, NY 10036-0000, USA Secured Party Names: LA TOURAINE COFFEE CO. 520 SECAUCUS ROAD, SECAUCUS, NJ 07096-0000, USA File no. File Date Lapse Date Filing Type Pages Image 085313 04/22/1998 04/22/2003 Financing Statement 1=2 0NA *
3. Debtor Name s: FORD FOUNDATION T/A REST. ASSOC. 320 E. 43RD ST., NYC, NY 10036-0000, USA Secured Party Names: LA TOURAINE COFFEE CO. 520 SECAUCUS ROAD, SECAUCUS, NJ 07096-0000, USA File no. File Date Lapse Date Filing Type Pages Image 085317 04/22/1998 04/22/2003 Financing Statement 1 NA *
4. Debtor Names: THE FORD FOUNDATION 320 EAST 43RD ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017-4816, USA Secured Party Names: IBM CORPORATION 1 NORTH CASTLE DRIVE, ARMONK, NY 10504-2575, USA File no. File Date Lapse Date Filing Type Pages Image 002985 01/05/2000 01/05/2005 Financing Statement 1 NA * 014125 01/20/2000 01/05/2005 Termination 1 NA *
5. Debtor Names: THE FORD FOUNDATION 320 EAST 43RD ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017-0000, USA Secured Party Names: DE LAGE LANDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. 1055 WESTLAKES DRIVE, BERWYN, PA 19312-0000, USA File no. File Date Lapse Date Filing Type Pages Image 238698 12/12/2000 12/12/2005 Financing Statement 2 NA * NOTE: New York State does not issue organizational identification numbers.

It is also reported that Stanley Ann Soetoro, also used or spelled "Soetoro" as "Sutoro".

Ford Foundation, white pages search Stanley A. Dunham: Expanded search to SUTORO...instead of as SOETORO... (In the Hawaiian Public records search, the public records were listed as Stanley Ann SUTORO)

Ann D Sutoro 320 E 43rd St New York, NY 10017 (212) 573-5000 Job title: Program Officer for Women & Employment Company: Ford Foundation

Q SA Dunham the same as our Stanley Ann Dunham that worked at 320 E. 49th St. in NYC at the Ford Foundation??

She supposedly DIED in Nov. 1995, and Verizon didn’t come onto the scene until 1996..after the merger of Bell Atlantic and GE

http://verizonpathetic.com/historylesson6.html

Now, what is interesting is that on this search record, it states years of residence 1993, 1994, 1995. BUT, what is INTERESTING, is that the phone number associated with this S A Dunham was a Land Line..from Verizon. Verizon didn’t exist until 1996.

For years 1993, 1994, 1995 when she was supposed to be living in Hawaii?? She supposedly died on Nov. 7, 1995.

The address at 235 E. 40th St puts her on the same block as her Ford Foundation Job address. 320 E. 40TH ST.

Reverse search on her phone number..it came up name and address unavailable: Phone was a LAND LINE, Verizon

US Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 about S A Dunham

Name: S A Dunham Address: 235 E 40Th St City: New York State: New York Zip Code: 10016-0889 Phone Number: 212-986-9541 R esidence Years: 1993201994 1995

Source Citation: City: New York; State: New York; Year(s): 1993 1994 1995.

Low and behold, we see Ann only lives 3 city blocks from where she works

Overall analysis based on data presented above indicates

The multiple addresses under each alias suggest an extreme pattern of money laundering and real estate acquisitions. No one person would have so many addresses in one lifetime and certainly not under each alias. The research has, quite by accident, opened the door to the world of organized real estate fraud and money laundering. Admittedly, charging the Dunhams and their presumed aliases and Stanley Ann and her aliases with complicity in this nation-destroying scam is a bold step forward and, journalistically, could be deemed premature. However, the extent of money-laundering, as revealed by means of linking database names and real estate transactions, is staggering. On the basis of the above examples and evidence from other investigations, the numbers of properties involved likely number in the millions and would be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, if not $trillions.

What is most interesting in this is how they appear to be accomplishing this as it has mixed the old Muslim money system of hawala with modern credit card laundering, including ATM transfers with the direct quid pro quo involving non profits and the indirect infiltration of funds via some very connected Muslim billionaires, topped off with the public airwaves as a public paid for propaganda ministry.

For the basics, hawala, is an off the book banking system which runs the Middle East. No money ever exchanges hands across borders. It works like this: Ahmadinejad of Iran decides to disrupt the United States election process and tells a broker in Tehran, he wants to transfer several hundred thousand dollars to Iranian immigrants in the United States.

The broker takes the money from Ahmadinejad, writes the transaction down in his notebook, assigns it a transaction number which he tells Ahmadinejad to send to his Iranian agents in New York or Detroit, who then go in and pick up the cash from the hawala broker which looks like a noodle merchant in a run down store.

No money ever exchanges hands, but the Tehran broker will someday soon have money coming out of America and make the exchange and the books will balance then in a perpetual flow.

Other interesting notes, including information from an undisclosed source claiming to know the real Obama

“There is no evidence Ann Dunham had even met Obama Senior in or around November 1960, the alleged time of conception, indeed it is not even clear Obama was in Honolulu at that time, although he may have been. Ann Dunham was only 17 and although she might have been in Honolulu the timing is tight. More to the point, she was in neither of the medical centers put forward by the Obama campaign (question: why do they not know in which hospital he was born?) on August 4th, nor are there medical records to back up the claimed birth, nor has an attending physician been named. I’ve heard of births with the father absent, births with the mother absent a bit trickier.”

“There are said to be photos of Ann Dunham on Waikiki Beach taken in or about July 1961, when she is supposed to have been in her third trimester, in a bikini, taken by a fellow female student. AD is clearly not pregnant. Media have not yet talked to fellow students, but it can’t be long. There are bound to be other photos of AD in existence taken during the alleged 2nd and 3rd trimesters. Obama campaign are terrified some one will press for her medical records, which have been accessed by CIA.” “Obama Senior was murdered in Kenya in 1982 to silence him. Interesting story, his sister Auma as well — she appears to be a full sister, not a half-sister as he is claiming, i.e. they share the same mother. She was ordered back to Kenya in 2007 to prevent DNA testing …. CIA did a DNA test on the grandparents, using saliva from glasses, which conclusively rules out any relationship between Obama and the Dunhams.” “Effectively,” the source concludes, “Obama is a German sleeper agent.” There was the fact that in Hawaii the boy was tutored in the ways of revolution by leading black activists, Muslim activists, and Communist activists. Influentia black nationalist and Communist Frank Marshall Davis would become a huge influence in the young Obama’s life.

But things really got strange with the revelation that Khalid al-Mansour, close adviser to a Saudi billionaire and royal family helped Obama get into Harvard Law School (and reportedly Columbia before that) and financed his education and advancement.

Those who controlled the life of Stanley Armour Dunham, prepared him for the subservient role he would later play, as a “surrogate grandfather” to a fictional character created for the purpose of first infiltrating, then compromising the United States government.

Lebanon Connection, money-laundering scheme using counterfeit money and stolen credit cards

Ann Dunham possibly not a America citizen and went to school in Beirut, Lebanon. Possibly the family was smuggled into the US as spies. No wonder Obama refuses to show his BC.

"It is not that difficult my fellow and fellowette citizens. I will remind you that Mr. Obama is currently being fed over $250 million in overseas funds. This is the same overseas forgery center of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon which has the Xerox DocuColor 100 digital printing press at $500,000 a unit, along with the old acid paper and the presses which turns out hundreds of millions of dollars to fund terrorism around the world.

Do you really think an operation which was Axelrod inept and has graduated to contracting outside computer hackers in a quid pro quo is now going to be sunk in not coming up with a few documents and a few Democrats from operational military and intelligence backgrounds to clean up this problem?"

"The process is simple. 3rd world bank takes in counterfeit money to pay for non used credit cards which have been stolen."

More on stolen credit card numbers -- used for Obama related money laundering:

http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-money-train.html

http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/10/dangling-phil-berg.html

http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/10/oh-my-proven-right-again.html

http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/11/some-necessary-obama-bailout-questions.html

"The payments are all electronic, so no statements are sent to unsuspecting people.

The net result the Obama campaign hauls in over 250 million in donations which means a big black hole deficit in someone's legitimate bank."

"Rep. John Boehner of the GOP asking about ghost loans of 2 trillion dollars to who knows where and what that the taxpayer is being stuck with in asking the real questions of just how much of this government bailout money and financial disaster flowed directly into Barack Obama's campaign funding orgy of 800 million dollars.

We know for a fact today that the Democratic Party BORROWED 15 million dollars for Barack Obama in the last weeks of the election. Which banks did this come from and as homeowners were in dire straits at the very least banks were giving Obama loans for steak dinners and jet trips while poor people were being squeezed to pay their mortgage."

The scheme in detail as explained by an expert in the process

"Obama receives 300 million dollars from the Middle East. The said Middle East bank has in it counterfeit money from Lebanon deposited knowing it is bogus.

Said Obama operatives in the Middle East take stolen American credit card numbers which if one recalls were all over the news just before the Obama campaign decided it was going to raise money via credit cards.

The operatives phone Obama's Penny Pritzker and donate whatever amounts that showed up on their books which amount to 300 million dollars.

American credit card companies pay it thinking they are being paid with real money from these banks. The operatives pay by electronic transfers the credit card bill so no physical bill is sent and the owner whether living or dead has no idea their account is active as most accounts do not show year end statements.

The money then goes into the Obama accounts in America banks and is paid out to willing Obama sucklings all squealing like pigs for the Obama in being funded by him.

For all the nonsense of Shep Smith not believing the MSM is in the tank for Obama and made a difference, no one has asked grinning Shep just how much 800 million dollars buys in loyalty from the media.

At the very least Barack Obama is on record for taking 15 million dollars from a strapped population in need of every cent to make house payments. At the mid ground, Barack Obama owes 300 million dollars in money which should be seized by the Treasury as it was fraudlent coming out of the Middle East. At the maximum, Barack Obama is knowingly guilty of criminal money fraud in taking a part in funding his campaign in the economic rape of the United States."

"No birth certificate for Stanley Ann Dunham or her parents, or her maternal grandparents. No marriage certificate for Ann's parents and no record of Ann's fathers service in the military. This would be a point Obama made to throw everyone off that no one in his family is a natural born citizen including him.

So why is the government covering up all of this for Obama? All these records Obama talks about are available to the FBI and the CIA. Yet we hear nothing?

We have no idea who Obama is. But this information here says he is a part of something larger than just POTUS."


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2008; birthcertificate; certifigate; dunham; indonesia; investigateobama; obama; obamafamily; obamamother; obamaorigins; obamatruthfile; ohbrotherwhoartthou; stanleyanndunham
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To: Fred Nerks

She played fast and loose and fell for the foreign accent, different from anything she had heard outside of the movies. She did have an interest in other cultures as well. She celebrates the election of the young exciting JFK and ends up with a little oops. I would imagine she was easily persuaded by a notorious womanizer like Obama Sr and the U.S. is now stuck with the result of her celebration. She was 17 when she graduated and still 17 when she became pregnant.


321 posted on 02/04/2009 8:26:57 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: Fred Nerks

“explain it me again Chief, Stanley Ann graduated in June 1960, moved to Hawaii; by November she’s pregnant, and in early August 1961 (4th) obama is born. I still find that difficult to believe. She’s nothing but a schoolgirl.”

In those days, 5 months wasn’t much time for an African to court a freshly graduated American girl.


322 posted on 02/04/2009 8:31:14 PM PST by stevestras
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To: BP2

And then we have the article in “The Honolulu Advertiser” noting that Madelyn and Stanley were living at apt 110 1427 Alexander St in 1963, but why would Madelyn and Stanley move into an apartment and have Ann move into the home they had lived in since they moved to Hawaii in 1960? Answer is that they wouldn’t, but they would rent an apartment for their daughter and grandson to live in when she came back to Hawaii. By spring 1963 classes Ann’s address listed is 2277 Kamehameha Ave., so she lived in the apartment until just before she registered for classes at UH. I didn’t have an exact date for when Ann and Jr went back to Hawaii until that article was published. Also did you see the post above where the photo of the Polk’s Seattle City Directory for 1961 is posted?


323 posted on 02/04/2009 8:32:21 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: Chief Engineer; BIGLOOK

ping to 323. Could you check this?


324 posted on 02/04/2009 8:36:08 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: Chief Engineer

Too weird. All of it.

Good work.


325 posted on 02/04/2009 8:39:02 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: Chief Engineer; stevestras

Thanks for the explanations, her parents must have been shattered when they found out...

And from the moment he was born, the lies started.


326 posted on 02/04/2009 8:42:59 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Considering that Ann and her father were often at loggerheads and her mother was the peacemaker I wouldn’t have wanted to have seen the explosion when she announced, “Mom, dad I have something to tell you.” Considering the remark Stanley Dunham made to a friend about having lived through “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” I don’t think he ever got over it.(That remark was made in the 70’s to a co-worker at the Hancock Insurance Company)


327 posted on 02/04/2009 8:47:55 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

DELGROSSO, JAMES (Age 43)

Associated names:

DUNHAM, JAMES T

CANTON, MA
SHARON, MA
MATTESON, IL
HONOLULU, HI
EWA BEACH, HI
CHICAGO, IL

Possible Relatives:

DUNHAM, PATRICIA A (Age 43)
DELGROSSO, MICHAEL
SCHIPPLECK, KELLY L (Age 40)

Possible Roommates / Associates:

DERRICO, JOSEPH A (Age 58)
ALLEN, GRANDISON GREER (Age 69)
EALEY, SHEILA YVETTE (Age 49)


328 posted on 02/04/2009 9:16:13 PM PST by maggief
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To: BP2

We can now assume this account is inaccurate?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004334057_obama08m.html

Susan Blake, another high-school classmate, said that during a brief visit in 1961, Dunham was excited about her husband’s plans to return to Kenya.

“We all had June Cleaver as our role models, and she was blazing new trails for herself,” said Blake, a former Mercer Island city councilwoman.

The marriage was brief. By 1962, Dunham had returned to Seattle as a single mother, enrolling in the UW for spring quarter and living in an apartment on Capitol Hill. But friends said she got overwhelmed and returned to her family in Hawaii, and formally divorced Obama Sr. in 1964.


329 posted on 02/04/2009 9:28:17 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
Something is missing here. Why did the Dunham's abruptly move to Hawaii? Why didn't they allow Ann to stay and attend UW?

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:SebX2cB6Ai4J:www.valfoubert.com/Strong%2520Personalities%2520Shaped%2520a%2520Future%2520Senator.pdf+Family+portraits+-+Strong+personalities+shaped+a+future+senator,+Barack+Obama&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

When the Mercer Island High School yearbooks began circulating in the spring of 1960, Stanley Ann ‘s senior year, classmates scribbled best wishes to friends and remembered slumber parties, one mother's exceptionally good chocolate cake and thoughts on some goofy boys.

Dunham wrote to Maxine Box: “Remember me when you are old and gray. Love & Luck, Stanley .” Seemingly out of the blue, her father had found a better opportunity — another furniture store, this one in Hawaii. “He just couldn't settle,” Box recalled.

“I remember she didn't want to go to Hawaii,” she added.

That was only the first surprise. Stanley Ann began classes at the University of Hawaii in 1960, and shortly after that, Box received a letter saying that her friend had fallen in love with a grad student. He was black, from Kenya and named Obama.

About that same time, another letter crossed the Pacific, this one heading to Africa. It was from Barack Obama Sr. to his mother, Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama. Though the letter didn't go into great detail, it said he had met a young woman named Ann (not Stanley ). There wasn't much on how they met or what the attraction was, but he announced their plans to wed.

The Dunhams weren't happy. Stanley Ann ‘s prospective father-in-law was furious. He wrote the Dunhams “this long, nasty letter saying that he didn't approve of the marriage,” Obama recounted his mother telling him in “Dreams.” “He didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman.”

Parental objections didn't matter. For Stanley Ann , her new relationship with Barack Obama and weekend discussions seemed to be, in part, a logical extension of long coffeehouse sessions in Seattle and the teachings of Wichterman and Foubert. The forum now involved graduate students from the University of Hawaii. They spent weekends listening to jazz, drinking beer and debating politics and world affairs.

The self-assured and opinionated Obama spoke with a voice so deep that “he made James Earl Jones seem like a tenor,” said Neil Abercrombie, a Democratic congressman from Hawaii who was part of those regular gatherings.

While Obama was impatient and energized, Stanley Ann , whom Abercrombie described as “the original feminist,” was endlessly patient but quietly passionate in her arguments. She was the only woman in the group.

“I think she was attracted to his powerful personality,” Abercrombie said, “and he was attracted to her beauty and her calmness.”

Six months after they wed, another letter arrived in Kenya, announcing the birth of Barack Hussein Obama, born Aug. 4, 1961. Despite her husband's continued anger, Sarah Obama said in a recent interview, she “was so happy to have a grandchild in the U.S.”

When the same news hit Mercer Island, it dumbfounded Stanley ‘s classmates.

“I just couldn't imagine her life changing so quickly,” said Box, thinking about her independent-minded friend who had disdained marriage and motherhood.

Although he didn't say it at the time, Abercrombie privately feared that the relationship would be short-lived. Obama was one of the most ambitious, self-focused men he had ever met. After Obama was accepted to study at Harvard, Stanley Ann disappeared from the University of Hawaii student gatherings, but she did not accompany her husband to Harvard. Abercrombie said he rarely saw her after that.

“I know he loved Ann ,” Abercrombie said, but “I think he didn't want the impediment of being responsible for a family. He expected great things of himself and he was going off to achieve them.”

The marriage failed. Stanley Ann filed for divorce in 1964 and remarried two years later, when her son was 5. The senior Obama finished his work at Harvard and returned to Kenya, where he hoped to realize his big dreams of taking a place in the Kenyan government.

Years later, Abercrombie and another grad school friend looked up their old pal during a trip through Africa.

At that point, the senior Obama was a bitter man, according to the congressman, feeling that he had been denied due opportunities to influence the running of his country. “He was drinking too much; his frustration was apparent,” Abercrombie said.

To Abercrombie's surprise, Obama never asked about his ex-wife or his son.

330 posted on 02/04/2009 9:40:02 PM PST by maggief
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To: Fred Nerks; Chief Engineer; maggief; Jet Jaguar; stevestras; Iowan

Wonder how old she was in those nude Christmas photos. You suppose she was pregnant when they were taken?


331 posted on 02/04/2009 9:44:17 PM PST by LucyT
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To: maggief; BP2

The visit with Susan Blake may have been brief but Ann never returned to Hawaii until early 1963, shown by her name being listed in the 1961 Polk’s Seattle City Directory. People assumed she was in Seattle for that brief visit, returned to Hawaii and then returned to Seattle in 1962 to actually attend classes, but her listing in the directory shows she remained in Seattle.
Various high school classmates visited Ann and Jr during her time in Seattle as is documented in the excerpt which BP2 posted earlier.


332 posted on 02/04/2009 9:44:29 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: LucyT

Just barely as those photos were taken around Christmas 1960 and were probably meant as her Christmas present to Obama Sr. I believe they were taken at the small single story house which he was renting located at 625 11th Ave., and if we look at the floor we see it is wood which may be why it was torn down sometime after Sr left Hawaii in June 1962 and his 1971 visit. Termites love wood! They are probably the last pictures we see of Ann with short hair, by the time she returned to Hawaii her hair was long as shown in the fence picture.


333 posted on 02/04/2009 9:48:37 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: maggief

Stanley Dunham was a wanderer and figured he would cash in selling furniture to new residents of the newest state of Hawaii. Madelyn quickly obtained her job as a mortgage administrator at Bankoh and the “official story” is that Stanley Armour figured Ann was too young to stay in WA and attend University. It must also be noted that stories have been told that Ann was also accepted at the University of Chicago, someone contacted that University and was told she had never applied there. I wonder if she got pregnant on purpose(as opposed to letting a celebration of JFK as President get carried away) as a way for her parents to send her back to WA away from any hint of scandal with them in new jobs in a new location?


334 posted on 02/04/2009 9:54:20 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: Chief Engineer

Lots of surprises going on at the time ... Stanley Ann could have been rebelling.


335 posted on 02/04/2009 10:01:46 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Maggie, you’re exactly right.

One of the researchers on a different team I work with called Susan about 3 weeks ago. He made the conversation seem innocuous, almost like a puff-piece media interview, acting like a punch-drinking Obot. He spoke with her for more than an hour. He saved the “hard” questions for last, just like a reporter would.

BTW, her story THAT time was that Ann and baby Obama were just “passing through” Mercer Island in August 1961 to see Obama SR, who Susan said was just starting at Harvard in Massachusetts. But, as we know, Obama SR didn’t start Harvard for nearly another year later, in Fall 1962. It was sometime after that, the evidence shows, that Ann and baby Obama left Seattle for Ann to resume classes at U of HA.

When our “interviewer” started to raise doubt of her story, particularly about why Ann would have been traveling from Hawaii just three weeks after Obama Jr was born to see her husband at Harvard (who is CONFIRMED to still back at the Univ. of Hawaii taking classes), Blake got irate, said “you must be one of those people who thinks Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii!” and hung up.

She’s a schill for Obama and seems to be trying to soak in the glamor of his name recognition. ANYTHING that Susan Blake says on Obama and Ann Dunham is suspect.


336 posted on 02/04/2009 10:06:00 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: Chief Engineer

Not sure if I grasp your meaning - if she had not gotten pregnant, what scandal would there be for her to get away from?


337 posted on 02/04/2009 10:07:09 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: maggief

When you are 17 years old and actually have a chance to remain in one place for 5 years, make friends and make plans that get disrupted because your father can’t stay in one spot too long, you would definitely want to remain with your group of friends and to heck with whatever dad decides. Rebel is a good way to put it, especially going to a new state where whites are “low man” on the totem pole!


338 posted on 02/04/2009 10:08:04 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: BP2

bump for weirdness I don’t quite understand


339 posted on 02/04/2009 10:13:20 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Sounds like a good tagline.


340 posted on 02/04/2009 10:37:01 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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