1. “Goeldner said her sister-in-law actually raised Barrack Obama, or Barry as they called him, when he was young, after his mother died in 1970.”
2. “When Ann died at an early age, it was Virginia’s brother and sister-in-law who raised the future president.”
3. “Obama’s grandfather, Stanley, left Kansas and moved to Texas and it was in the Seattle area where his mother Stanley Ann Dunham, WAS BORN.”
4.”Stanley Armour Dunham, who was Barack Obama’s grandfather, who died in 1982;”
I think the Ann Dunham as Barry’s mom story just took a serious hit.
I don't regard it as such. These points have been mentioned by others. As they require us to believe that Virginia Goeldner didn't know that Stanley Ann was Barry's mother, and that Barry was her nephew (as a result of Stanley Ann Being his mother) then the entire premise of the article referring to the Woman's nephew becoming "President" makes no sense.
For me it is just evidence that the Reporter screwed up the story. Perhaps Goeldner said "His mother left him" and presumed that to mean "she died." I myself have been interviewed by newspaper and television reporters before, and invariably they screw the story up.
If it's an issue, I expect we can contact the newspaper that wrote it and ask to speak to the reporter that did the story for a clarification. In the mean time, I chalk it up to bad reporting and misunderstanding what was said.
I would go along with the errors being an one-time unintentional mistake, except that these type of errors seem to appear all the time in Obama articles & even recent books such as Janny Scotts ‘A Singular Woman’ and Sally Jacobs ‘ The Other Barack’.
It seems like the completely phony 1995 ‘Dreams from My Father’ narrative has been pushed along by a complacent media starting in 2007-2008 with these type of articles.
Here is something VERY odd:
This article was posted by Bill Lawson on November 13, 2008 @ 12:02 pm and DOESN’T contain any of the 5 major errors:
http://www.maumellemonitor.com/articles/2008/11/13/the_times/local_news/nws01.txt
This article by Bill Lawson was posted a hour later on November 13, 2008 @ 1:04 pm and contains the 5 major errors:
http://www.maumellemonitor.com/articles/2008/11/13/maumelle_monitor/living/liv01.txt
1. “Goeldner said her sister-in-law actually raised Barrack Obama, or Barry as they called him, when he was young, after his mother died in 1970.”
2. “When Ann died at an early age, it was Virginia’s brother and sister-in-law who raised the future president.”
3. “Obama’s grandfather, Stanley, left Kansas and moved to Texas and it was in the Seattle area where his mother Stanley Ann Dunham, WAS BORN.”
4.”Stanley Armour Dunham, who was Barack Obama’s grandfather, who died in 1982;”
5. “She married a Hawaiian and gave birth to the president-elect’s half sister, Maya.”