Symbolism? =)
Re: sitting on the fence? Border fence?
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 ...
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.
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.
Re: sitting on the fence? Border fence?
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?
Oh my God!! Hes smoking a cigarette! How awful! (sarc)
OK who is in the 2nd picture?
Stanley looks very much like Susan Smith in that photo.
Exactly...Plus, you could make a movie about Obama's life story. It's so unbelievable.
A common afliction with Democrats.
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.
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.
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.
IIRC, he left several wives and children.
I think that was Obama’s father, the senior Obama who wanted to be in Kenyan politics.
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.
Most haven't been removed at all.
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...”
LOL I’ve read it a couple times too and have yet to sort out all the muddle.
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