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Who was Stanley Ann Dunham?
The Los Angeles Times' Jacket Copy ^ | March 3, 2011 | Carolyn Kellogg

Posted on 03/03/2011 8:48:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Close followers of politics know that Stanley Ann Dunham was the mother of President Obama. And while the president has written about his dad -- there was that whole "Dreams From My Father" bestseller -- his mother has been less present in Obama's public narrative.

Now, Stanley Ann Dunham -- who went by Ann -- will come into focus, with a biography coming in May from Riverhead. "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother" is due in bookstores May 3.

The biography is written by Janny Scott, a former New York Times reporter who left the paper to complete the book. Here's the publisher's description:

Award-winning reporter Janny Scott has interviewed nearly two hundred of Ann's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of Ann's inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today.....

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Politics
KEYWORDS: dunham; frankmarshalldavis; hawaii; indonesia; kenya; obama; obamamama; stanleyanndunham; stanleydunham
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

his mom was a nut for her time....way way out there


41 posted on 03/03/2011 10:13:57 PM PST by wardaddy (FUHB)
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To: Aria

Did you look at the post no. 16
...those are the photos I saw. They look authentic to me and I work a little in photoshop but maybe an expert could tell for sure.

But, I go with what Rev. Manning stated when he described her actions in the year that the was trolling the streets for sex with Blacks as a teenager...calling her white trash which would be true for the time little barry was born....the sexual revolution had not happened yet, so it was very odd behavior for a teenage girl who had any self respect. Of course, having a father who hated girls probably really had a profound effect on her...plus the fact that her parents were godless fellow travelers.


42 posted on 03/03/2011 10:15:18 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It could be that Stanley Ann Dunham is not even Obama’s mother because she left for college three days after supposedly giving birth.


43 posted on 03/03/2011 10:16:09 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: The Cajun

I’m an artist and I’ve had the unenviable task of having to “age” the only photo somebody had of a ~young~ person into a portrait of what they looked like 50-60 years later.

As such, intimately studying and scrutinizing facial structure is one the “necessary evils” of the job.

The laugh lines running alongside his mouth, the nose, the chin, the jawline, the eyes, the ears [the most “modified” match...maternal influence could account for that], the hairline, the angles and planes of the two faces line up eerily.

*If* I had a way to place a bet on a DNA test, I would bet BIG.

Just my tuppence.


44 posted on 03/03/2011 10:16:21 PM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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To: Frantzie

That makes perfect sense!


45 posted on 03/03/2011 10:18:11 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: Army Air Corps

They’ve been around. I think most agree they are probably genuine. I wouldn’t vilify her on this account, though. She was what I would call “Bohemian”, based only on the general circumstances that are known to me. I have no idea what she was like personally, but she seems like a humdinger.


46 posted on 03/03/2011 10:21:06 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Disagree, the likeness between him, his mother and grandfather is too strong. Now father is another matter.


47 posted on 03/03/2011 10:23:46 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: dr_lew

Another posted noted that these were done when she was a teenager. Who took the photographs? What was the purpose of the photographs (i.e. were they “art photos”, photos for which she was paid, photos taken by a boyfriend, etc.)?


48 posted on 03/03/2011 10:26:04 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: PGR88

There’s two album covers there that could perhaps help date the pic.


49 posted on 03/03/2011 10:26:47 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: sinanju

Yes, I have heard that also and it does make more sense actually. The grandfather was one really creepy, creepy person....but then all avid fellow travelers have to be godless and rather nihilistic and evil since they assign no human dignity to anyone, since people are just “trousered apes” and are useless idiots and have to be herded and told what to think.


50 posted on 03/03/2011 10:27:26 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: Cheetahcat

Wow. Love that.


51 posted on 03/03/2011 10:29:50 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Barry did remind her of Sr. but no one knows for sure if he really is the father. It’s not clear how much S.A.Dunham “hated” him but her own mistake in getting herself knocked up portray a sub-story Frank M.Davis as a childhood “mentor”

There has been and still is the question :Was Obama born in Kenya?

I’m confident that when the Dunham family arrived in HI there was quite the liberal attitude;other than pole smoking i’m sure there was a lot of pot smokers too.

Here’s a question: Did the US gov’t/FBI-aka J.Edgar Hoover at any time demand Frank Marshall David remove himself from the 48 continental United States?

What did J.Edgar Hoover have on FMDavis? see FOIA

Was FMDavis paid by the Feds to remove himself to HI before HI’s statehood because he was a certified Commie?

according to what I put together Stanley Ann Dunham & Mom and Pop’s exodus from Seattle to HI was when pregnant SAnn Dunahm was not yet of age according to Hawaiian residency requirements & at that time would forfeit Obozo’s right as a citizen; his father being Kenyan and a Britain under Crown Rule law at that time.

feel free to correct my comments

states in exchange


52 posted on 03/03/2011 10:30:07 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT
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To: Lancey Howard

TY! i’ll be right back


53 posted on 03/03/2011 10:31:03 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who was Stanley Ann Dunham?

a communist slut.


54 posted on 03/03/2011 10:32:35 PM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Cheetahcat

Now, I would read THAT book! LOL


55 posted on 03/03/2011 10:33:08 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: TomasUSMC

Well put.


56 posted on 03/03/2011 10:33:31 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: 1066AD

How about that record player? I had one a lot like that. Early sixties? You’d think an expert could identify the model.


57 posted on 03/03/2011 10:33:39 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: PGR88

This reminds me, I read a book called “Flat Stanley” one year.


58 posted on 03/03/2011 10:34:42 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who is she? Who is she indeed.
Who is Barack? Who is Stanley Ann’s mother and father?
We don’t know anything about any of this family except they were Godless commiea, muzzies and America haters.
All of them have murky, dark backgrounds.

Isn’t this a fine bunch for the White House history?
Our forefathers must be spinning in their graves.


59 posted on 03/03/2011 10:37:28 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

There is a lot of grampa’s face in barry’s. Maybe the grandfather is the father and he was fooling around with a black commie female who didn’t want his brat?


60 posted on 03/03/2011 10:38:29 PM PST by savagesusie
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