Ah, jacquej.
I re-read my post and it did sound like I was picking on you a bit didn’t it?
I didn’t intend to sound like that, and I’m sorry it did.
Some seem to think I’m attacking Stanley Ann, and I guess I got a little strident in painting her as someone who was trying to make the best of a bad situation, and made decisions and took actions that are best understood as those of a young and somewhat naïve mother.
Anyway, I’m sorry I blasted you...
it’s ok, null. This issue has brought out both the best and the worst of all of us Freepers.
I am exactly one year younger than Stanley Ann, and have some perspective on the way it went back then. Most “good” girls who got “in trouble” were in a very tough spot, not only with their parents, but with their peers.
I have no right to speak for Stanley Ann, but my experience lends me to believe that she was vulnerable, easily seducible, and totally inexperienced in the way of the world. She was only 17, and while precociously bright and rebellious, she was still so naive about the realities of the world!
I feel sorry for her, her mother, and for her poor neglected son. This isn’t unique to them, for many families have similar problems from those lousy sixties. But, the longer Obama stalls on all these issues of his early life, the worse it will be for him, and then, for all of us.
Stanley Ann should have told him the entire truth, so he could absorb and adjust to it gradually, over time. But, even if she tried to do so, he still might have needed to make up his own version. I am guessing he is still very angry with her and her parents.
His inability to be honest about his mother’s confusing life, the peculiar circumstances of his birth, and his abandonment by both parents, suggests he is a troubled soul, even if verbally talented in finding mythical explanatory stories to explain his circumstances in an effort to deny his painful past.
I feel sorry for him on one level, but on another level, hate him for subjecting us to his miserable efforts to expunge the ghosts of his non-existent/screwed up family of origin.
We have met the enemy, and it is our own totally dysfunctional culture, which encourages people like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Al Gore, etc. to seek power, money and glory, when they cannot manage their own lives and families.
They think they can connect with the least functional of our citizens, hook into the fears and pathologies of these, then get elected on promises of no personal responsibility for messing up in life. Obama has messed up, but can’t admit it, for he has built a life around a myth. One he has created to protect his fragile ego.
Alas, how far we have wandered from the straight and narrow path.