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."
So Neil was friends with Ann and Barack Sr.? Then he MUST have seen them together on the island when Ann was preggers, right? SOMEONE had to have seen her....or so you'd think.
This is the first that I'd heard of this connection. I read elsewhere (way back during the campaign) that the couple dropped out of sight after the 'marriage' -- that their friends did not see them. That account said that no friends were invited to the wedding and they just disappeared. It is possible that Abercrombie never saw them together again. If he had, don't you think that he would have mentioned it during all these months? After BO Jr. was born, BO Sr. moved to Harvard. One of their friends from the coffee house days went to visit him in Cambridge a couple of years (months?) later, and BO never even asked about BO II or Stanley Ann. Somewhere during that time period, BO Sr. married another white woman, Ruth, who followed him back to Africa. Apparently she shared him with Keiza (1st wife) because there are various progeny as a result. Does anyone remember the year BO Sr. married Ruth and returned to Africa? Was that before, or after, Dunham's divorce?
Ambercrombie is the ONLY one who has ever said anything about their relationship except for two short remarks from her parents. He has never said anything that has been published or recorded about seeing them after the marriage and with the baby.He did speak about seeing the little boy with his grandfather later after Anne returned to the island to go to U of H. There’s a big gap in his memories. Others who have shared their warm memories of O Sr. never mention knowing or seeing Anne and she never appears in any of the photos of O Sr. that have been posted on various FR threads.