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Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas
Chicago Tribune ^ | March 27, 2007 | Tim Jones

Posted on 02/28/2008 4:55:05 PM PST by george76

Chip Wall can't help but zero in on the little stuff whenever he watches Barack Obama on TV.

It's his old pal Stanley.

For Wall and a few dozen others, Obama on the campaign trail often brings to mind Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's mother and a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960.

"She was not a standard-issue girl of her times...

"She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she'd read about and could argue,"

the only child was a ... daughter of a father who wanted a boy so badly that he named her Stanley -- after himself.

Stanley Ann Dunham's formative years, spent not on the Great Plains but more than 1,800 miles away on a small island in the Pacific Northwest.

Stanley Dunham died in 1992, and the Obama campaign declined to make Madelyn Dunham, 84, available.

In 1955, the chairman of the Mercer Island school board, John Stenhouse, testified before the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party.

The marriage failed. Stanley Ann filed for divorce in 1964 and remarried two years later, when her son was 5. The senior Obama finished his work at Harvard and returned to Kenya, where he hoped to realize his big dreams of taking a place in the Kenyan government.

Years later, Abercrombie and another grad school friend looked up their old pal during a trip through Africa.

At that point, the senior Obama was a bitter man, according to the congressman, feeling that he had been denied due opportunities to influence the running of his country. "He was drinking too much; his frustration was apparent," .

To Abercrombie's surprise, Obama never asked about his ex-wife or his son.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii; US: Kansas; US: Washington
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To: wideminded
That picture (which is somewhat cropped here), immediately tells me that she was a good mother.

Based on your logic, one could assume that Bill and Hillary are madly in love based on one picture of them dancing on a beach.

I suspect you are not going to reach that conclusion.

181 posted on 02/29/2008 6:40:30 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: mountainbunny

When you look at his background, a few things come to mind. This was the early 60’s when racially mixed marriages were taboo. It is not at all that way today but it was then. It amazes me that people don’t take the era of things into account.


182 posted on 02/29/2008 6:42:36 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Symbolism? =)

Re: sitting on the fence? Border fence?


183 posted on 02/29/2008 6:43:38 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Das Outsider
Obama is a Marxist radical with a lot of funding--and from questionable sources--and no real managerial experience to speak of. Isn't that enough?

Its ironic that people in here are getting angry because they say we are trying to say that Obama learned his radicalism at his mama's knee. Everyone seems to agree that Obama is a radical Marxist and it is known that his mother was a radical Marxist. Could it possibly be safe to say he learned it from his mother? Or would that be too politically incorrect?

184 posted on 02/29/2008 6:47:52 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: CJ Wolf

Oh my God!! Hes smoking a cigarette! How awful! (sarc)


185 posted on 02/29/2008 6:49:00 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: Ezekiel

OK who is in the 2nd picture?


186 posted on 02/29/2008 6:54:36 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: Ezekiel

Stanley looks very much like Susan Smith in that photo.


187 posted on 02/29/2008 6:55:14 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: beckysueb
Wonder why it is that liberals mostly had broken homes or dysfunctional families.

Exactly...Plus, you could make a movie about Obama's life story. It's so unbelievable.

188 posted on 02/29/2008 6:59:21 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: boop
Obama is a big time liar. His "deep discussions about race" with his friend never happened and the supposed turning point in his life when he read the Life magazine article about the man bleaching his skin that didn't exist. But it was seared into his memory.

A common afliction with Democrats.

189 posted on 02/29/2008 7:03:08 AM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: wideminded

Thats bull. In our local news this past week, there is a woman on trial for the murder of her 6 year old foster child. In all the pictures of this little girl she looked happy. The foster mother got her when she was 3 years old. she was living in hell with the abuse but in every picture she looked happy.


190 posted on 02/29/2008 7:04:28 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

You’re right, Granite.
And it’s going to get worse...much worse.

What do you suppose the record is for consecutive “Removed by moderator” posts? Whatever it is, it’s in jeopardy.


191 posted on 02/29/2008 7:07:59 AM PST by BunkDetector
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To: All
My fondest hope is that "Roots" may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. -Alex Haley

Oba Ma Kenobe is about to bring down the ruthless & sickening Clinton dynasty, and I see nothing in his ancestral heritage that would cause me to prefer Hitlery over him as the Dem candidate.

192 posted on 02/29/2008 7:09:00 AM PST by O Neill (Aye, Katie Scarlett, the ONLY thing that lasts is the land...)
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To: Doc91678

IIRC, he left several wives and children.


193 posted on 02/29/2008 7:09:23 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: tobyhill

I think that was Obama’s father, the senior Obama who wanted to be in Kenyan politics.


194 posted on 02/29/2008 7:13:31 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: Lancey Howard

It strikes me as puzzling why, after promising to put the results of the polygraph on the web, WhiteHouse.com refused to do so. They came out and claimed Sinclair had failed the test and that was it. They said they were through with the story and they weren’t going to post the results and basically it wasn’t to be mentioned again.


195 posted on 02/29/2008 7:16:49 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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196 posted on 02/29/2008 7:16:49 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: BunkDetector
What do you suppose the record is for consecutive “Removed by moderator” posts?

Most haven't been removed at all.

197 posted on 02/29/2008 7:17:22 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: boop; forkinsocket; Candor7

bttt

” This article has several tidbits that I didn’t know. Obama is a big time liar. His “deep discussions about race” with his friend never happened and the supposed turning point in his life when he read the Life magazine article about the man bleaching his skin that didn’t exist. But it was seared into his memory.

I do think it is germane that his mom was a commie pinko lunatic who globe-trotted around and couldn’t be bothered to raise her son for 8 years...”


198 posted on 02/29/2008 7:19:31 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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199 posted on 02/29/2008 7:21:49 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Jo Nuvark

LOL I’ve read it a couple times too and have yet to sort out all the muddle.


200 posted on 02/29/2008 7:30:23 AM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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