Probably true. So let's leave her out of it. That still leaves the fact that no one saw Stanley Ann in Hawaii, other than Neil Abercrombie who said he saw the Kenyan with 'Ann' and the baby on social occasions, and Kiri Tith who said he knew Ann or Anne but had no idea she had married or had a child to the Kenyan. The 'Anne USA' shown at the Nachmannof gathering wasn't Stanley Ann Dunham, and neither was the girl he had his arm around in that famous image 'on the dock' where Stanley Armour Dunham also makes an appearance. There are literally hundreds of anomalies that don't square with the fairy tale of 'Dreams' - but as I wrote, I'm no longer as zealous as I once was - and haven't the motive, as an Australian, to go through them all again, so rest easy. You want Stanley Ann Dunham to be the mother. That's your prerogative. But to have that, you have to ignore much of what to me, seems very obvious.
She didn't show up in Hawaii until she changed her name to Ann Dunham Obama with Social Security in January 1963, and brought with her a little boy she's seen holding while he's sitting on a fence somewhere. Her life between the last image of her in the Mercer Island high school record stops after late 1959 and starts again with the images of her with a toddler in Hawaii - when Stanley Armour also took the boy to the beach.
That's all they had to show you where she was. The letter from the University of Hawaii assumes you will accept Stanley Ann Dunham enrolled for Fall of 1960. There's nothing there to show they didn't pull up a record for the student named Ann S Obama and led you to believe the enrolment was for Stanley Ann. And that's about as far as I want to go with this. As long as people cling to the Stanley Ann as mother myth, there's no progress possible. It remains a brilliant strategy to give a child a background and family.
She HAD TO be at Mercer Island High School until the summer of 1960, she HAD TO accompany at least one of her parents to Hawaii in 1960 'after graduation' because she HAD TO be enrolled at the university for FALL 1960, because she HAD TO meet the Kenyan 'in a Russian Class' so that she could 'marry him' and become pregnant...but mothers are sacrosanct, and the author of 'Dreams' did his job well. He wove, he blended, he looked at the true story that he was given, and presented a fairy tale. And for that to succeed, everything possible to be concealed was concealed.
Obama has lived for almost 50 years without leaving any footprints -- none! There is no Obama documentation -- no bona fides -- no paper trail -- nothing.
‘That still leaves the fact that no one saw Stanley Ann in Hawaii, other than Neil Abercrombie who said he saw the Kenyan with ‘Ann’ and the baby on social occasions, and Kiri Tith who said he knew Ann or Anne but had no idea she had married or had a child to the Kenyan.’
We’ve discussed Kiri Tith. Apparently in vain. This idea of yours that a seasoned biography sits down with an interviewee and says, ‘So, did you know an Ann or Anne, ~45 years ago,’ couldn’t be farther from the truth. Maraniss was asking about ‘Stanley Ann Dunham.’ To insist that he wouldn’t have made that clear is simply detached from reality.
Cindy Pratt not only saw Stanley Ann Dunham in HI; she lived in the same house with her. No, it wasn’t a case of mistaken identify. Stanley Ann took her baby and showed him to Cindy after she returned to HI. Cindy would not have mistaken Stanley Ann Dunham for the mythical Ann; SAD wasn’t gone long enough for Cindy to forget completely what she looked like.