It's been more than two years of a hard slog without much joy, but this I can tell you: We have seen nothing that places Stanley Armour Dunham and FMD together. Surprised? Start looking. It's just not there. I recall some woman who told of Mr Dunham bringing the boy to visit FMD when he supposedly returned from Indonesia. That's a pretty weak testament to a long, close association. Another story has FMD in the company of Dunham and zero selling drugs from a hot dog stand. Now that's got to be solid proof they were both commies, right?
We know what FMD was. He's brilliantly documented by Trevor Loudon on
But that friendship with Dunham is as loose and as suspect as the friendship between the kenyan and Tom Mboya. That never existed in real life , either.
That they drank whiskey together and were buddies, is straight out of 'Dreams' and we know what that is worth.
It looks like the only way they might actually have crossed paths, was when the kenyan came to visit Ann S Obama, the woman who was shown as a student resident at the birth announcemnt address. Remember her? The daughter of the Pratt family for whom Dunham worked, and who they shared the house with, couldn't remember a Dunham daughter, with or without a baby...
Mr and Mrs Obama had a son. Those announcements don't name the mother.
Good points about the supposed buddy-ship between Stanley Dunham and FMD. Anything that is strongly pushed (and thickly embroidered with details) in “Dreams” is naturally suspect.
Like the “incident” with Sr dangling some guy off the cliff for touching his pipe, and the bar scene with Donald Duck porn paintings and little Zero drinking soda at the bar.
Such scenes read like a movie script, entirely false, contrived, and inserted to make specific points. Provide realistic color? To make his “life” seem real and alive, like a corpse hooked up to electricity? And also to emplace things that might be useful later, like supposedly having Madelyn Dunham being called “Toot”.