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 ...
Malia is a Hawaiian name
Jack Cashill, the man who recently wrote “Deconstructing Obama” addressed the issue of these photos, and it seems several people have dated them by the album covers in the background, by her shoe style, etc.... You can listen to various interviews with Jack Cashil on youtube. He believes them to be real, and taken by Frank Davis, BUT I have never heard any explanation on how/where/when these photos were discovered.
I typed a comment that made my husband laugh but then I self censored and deleted it.
Lent is coming and I am trying to be kinder. I guess I may need to take Lenten fast from FR.
I typed a reply to your flat Stanley comment that made my husband laugh but then I self censored and deleted it.
Lent is coming and I am trying to be kinder. I guess I may need to take a Lenten fast from FR.
Yeah, those comments were pretty sickening. Truly delusional.
Yep that’s it thank you! What do you think about it?
Malia is Hawaiian. I almost had a grandchild with that name but it was a boy.
It is the Hawaiian Mary.
I think that the Roman Obama at the Lumumba University interviewed in 1992 is probably a relative who knew too much:
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920213&slug=1475488
I know I should hold my tongue also being a Catholic girl, BUT there is one family on earth who I think is the spawn of the devil and I haven’t been able to completely restrain myself whenever their names are mentioned. It is like I am being forced to post.
I know how you feel.
Well at least you're in the ballpark :^)
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