Posted on 07/03/2008 4:35:19 PM PDT by SE Mom
Travel safely, Lady. God speed ...
I like how your adjectives fell off of the description once the melanin kicked in. Very interesting.
What adjectives should I have used? Dark skinned? I wasn’t trying to be descriptive, but discussing race.
At first I thought it was a hispanic baby because it was lightskinned. Then I realized it was a black baby because it was dark skinned.
Or maybe I’m a closet member of the KKK and have to rush off because I have a cross to burn in 45 minutes and they really hate it when I’m late. ;o)
Oh I agree! I didn’t even realize it was several months later as I was just pinged. It didn’t dawn on me to see it was from JULY! So for that, I do apologize. From now on I’ll check the date posted.
It just never occurred to me that someone would ping me to a list that was several months old, LOL!
Ruby, I’m Just having a little fun with some the old photographs in the thread and comparing them to the one that you recently posted!
So this is supposed to be 1971 and Mommy, Daddy, & Barry at the Honolulu Airport:
BHO,Sr. -—— age 35
Stanley Anne—age 28
boy Barack——age 10
OR, is it really the year 1961 and The Honeymoon Departure at Honolulu Airport?
BHO,Sr.-————age 25
Stanley Anne-——age 18
Photoshop of Barack inserted in 1961 photo ( Note that the boy’s head, wrist, mouth, ears, & combined arm-length are each bigger than Dad’s!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2040486/posts?page=1037#1037
As compared to your submitted photo of about the same time frame taken in Chicago at Uncle Jon Payne’s house:
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2040486%2C6232
It’s a very blurry photo, but it does reveal a very different look and size for Anne from the the early 1970’s airport photograph. Her size appears maternity or post-maternity which would coincide with the half sister’s birth in 1970. Which leads me to believe that the earlier photo of the couple is 1961 and the father-son photo was a campaign construction.
What are your impressions?
That particular fact was something that bothered me when I read how Susan Blake described Jr as “new and pink”. When Ann arrived on Mercer Island with Jr he was quite the newborn to be described thus. We have a Freeper that commented back on this thread about having biracial grandchildren. He said his grandchildren appeared white at first and developed their coloring within the first week. Don’t ask me which Freeper on this thread eventhough I have read through this thread twice!
If you do a Google search for Ann Dunham Soetoro images you will find that she was heavy for much of her later life. She wore long dresses after she had Maya but when she appeared in a skirt and top the weight showed like it did on the cross country tour the family went on when Jr was 11 or 12. (Dates aren’t important to Jr as he showed when he announced in N.C. that his grandmother had died, he said she was born in 1922 which meant she lived through two world wars and the great depression, but the first world war ended in 1918 four years before his grandmother was even born.)
What are your impressions?
My impression is that the boy obama is about the same height in both images, the mother Stanley Ann is pregnant at the time the photograph was taken with obama snr at the airport - and the photograph with the uncle is from the period later in her pregnancy with Maya.
FWIW.
From the article:
"Me in my long hair years," he said as he pointed to the photograph. "And this is Ann, this is Barack's mother, and this is Barack. Barack's about 12."
Aren't there two birthdates for Maya? I believe Aug 1970 as well as the Sept 1971 date.
BO says his father came to visit Christmas time when he was 10. So that would be Dec 1971-Jan 1972. Both dates after Maya's two birthdates.
But I also noticed that Ann did not gain weight for at least a couple years after Maya's birth. She is still more slim in this pic - Maya maybe ~18 months (?). That would make BO ~ 10.5-11.5 (?)
So is the consensus that the airport photos are from 1961 and not 1971?
Lolo, Stanley Ann, Maya and obama.
Obama snr comes to visit. Obama jnr appears to be about the same age as in the above image. This visit IIRC took place Christmas 1970-71.
Photo taken at the same airport.
Christmas, same visit.
And now I have no idea how the above image fits in.
FYI this school photograph was dated 1972. IIRC there are nine years between the two children, and that would make Maya around two years of age in your photo.
how far back do you want to go on the loooong thread...? I think it was established that the airport in question wasn’t built yet in 1961.
Ann had problems with her weight even back in the years she lived in WA state and I guess she eventually gave up on her attempts at weight control. The pictures of her at Jr’s wedding show this. Perhaps when she first had Maya running around she was able to keep the weight off but after sitting in class she developed more “secretary sprawl” which she never lost.
Not to me, I have always thought the airport pictures were taken in 1971 just by looking at pictures of Sr taken while he was at university in Hawaii. He has aged by the time the airport pictures were taken. Ann simply carried the baby weight around. If you will look at the picture taken with Lolo you will notice her legs are quite heavy, as a student she would have a difficult time losing weight.
I can't recall how/where I got this-
Thanks for that, something I had never seen before! I do know that the wedding was celebrated a year later in Canada as I read a story about Jr and family crossing the border into Canada. Perhaps the 1971 birthdate for Maya has to do with Ann registering her in HI at that time.
The picture of Ann and Jr with her Uncle Jon was taken in Chicago during the cross country trip the family and Grandma made in 1972. Grandpa stayed home in HI. Uncle Jon is missed in most mentions of Madelyn’s family as there is an age difference of something like 15 years between them. Many biographies say Madelyn was the oldest of three children when there were actually four children in the Payne family.
thanks, so Maya was born in August 1970 and the date on the Census form is just plain wrong...
Interesting document you have there:
Do my eyes deceive me? Lolo and Stanley Ann divorced 5/12/1995!?
Stanley Ann’s Death via Social Security Death Index Search is shown as Nov 7, 1995.
Lolo SOETORO MARTODIHARDJO married STANLEY ANN DUNHAM.
If obama was adopted I gather his full adopted name would be Barry Soetoro Martodihardjo.
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