“NOW CHECK OUT THE ‘TEACHERS’ VIDEO:
http://seattlest.com/2008/01/30/obamas_mixed_an.php
“In the first one it clearly states she spent one year in Seattle and then TWO YEARS at the high school. “
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The person videotaped asserting that “fact” is Tim Jones, reporter, Chicago Tribune.
His exact quote:”...but her formative years were spent in the Pacific NorthWest-—one year in Seattle and two years in a semi-rural island just east of Seattle called Mercer Island.”
If that interview was conducted around the time-frame of the post date, Jan 30, 2008, I find it odd that it directly conflicts with his critically acclaimed and oft-cited article, dated March 27, 2007, in which Jones states,
“Obama visited the Seattle area last October, and in a speech to a Democratic Party rally at Bellevue Community College, he mentioned that his mother attended Mercer Island High School before moving on to Hawaii. In “Dreams,” Obama wrote that the family moved to Seattle “long enough for my mother to finish high school.””
“But her stop was more than some educational cup of coffee; Obama’s mother spent 8th grade through high school here. Four of those five years were spent on Mercer Island, a 5-mile-long, South America-shaped stretch of Douglas firs and cedars, just across from Seattle in Lake Washington.”
Obama’s mom: Not just a girl from Kansas
Regardless, as far as I have been able to determine, reporter Jones has never publicly offered a reason how his 5 years in Washington became 3 years in Washington (or vice versa).
In the grand scheme of things, it may not be important, but IMO it lends credence to the likelihood of SAD’s absence from Washington that senior (12th grade) year and, as you both mentioned, fits into the 1959 Chicago au pair/Black Orpheus scenario-—the date the movie played in Chicago was pegged down to a certainty here on FR.
Also, Chip Wall oddly points to his senior yearbook photo in the video interview, but not SAD’s.
David: Off-the-wall question: Did Mercer Island high school have what I think had been called “advanced placement” -— an opportunity whereby a student could fulfill requirements and graduate at the end of the 11th grade and proceed to college? Off the wall because I think had that been the case with SAD, her friends and teachers would have been proud (and permitted) to discuss.
FN: Had we not also established that father Stanley departed Washington for Hawaii in 1959, rather than 1960?
Time in Lebanon?
To the best of my recollection, there was a report from one of her 'classmates' (I'll find it if I have to) that the father went to Hawaii before 1960, and Madelyn waited...and as soon as SAD graduated, they hopped on a 'plane to join him.
Made me smile at the time. It was so obviously a statement that had as it's origin the appearance of the 'dock image' which was firstly described as the arrival of the kenyan in the summer of 1959. And there's Stanley Armour standing there...
Which only resulted in more questions. How come Stanley Armour knew the kenyan to be on the dock as part of the welcome?
So the story was changed again. And the dock arrival became a graduation celebration for the kenyan. When it was pointed out that a dock was a strange place for that kind of celebration, and what on earth were the captain, the crew and the dock workers doing there, we were told the image was of the kenyan's departure.
you gotta be FLEXIBLE.
Now let me tell you something funny. The face on the man wearing all the fake lei, obviously placed to hide the fact that he had his arm around the young girl beside him, is the face of a older Barack Hussein Obama from Kogelo in Kenya. It looks like the same face we see in around 1971 at the airport in Hawaii.
Have you ever tried to nail jelly to a wall? I haven't, but I do have an idea what it feels like. And as always, your power of observation is impeccable.