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 ...
Excellent post devolve.
Thanks.
I like that picture that looks like he has no teeth.
yes
Show me your company and I’ll tell you what YOU are!
[I like that picture that looks like he has no teeth.]
Truthfully I’m hoping his wife knocked them out when she found out!!
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LOL!
You’ve got the whole story exposed there potlatch!
Yep, just didn’t put in the half naked girlie picts!
I am surprised that she was at his press conference.
[I am surprised that she was at his press conference.]
I agree with everyone who has posted that it’s a disgrace that these men humiliate their wives even more by having them stand in front of millions of viewers while the men get tears in their eyes because they got caught!
No way did she WANT to be standing there!
Actually, there was a book entitled "Black Like Me" which was something of a sensation in the 60's, I read it. It chronicled some guy who managed supposedly stain himself dark and disguise himself as a black man, just to see how people treated him.
I read Black Like Me. Great book BTW. But that is the opposite of what Obama claimed.
I couldn’t agree with you more!
And, I mean every...single...word.
That’s quite a combination.
amazing he can run for POTUS....what a fall for us
many in our nation are weakened by guilt
it’s our kryptonite
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It may be Kryptonite for some
Not for me
A magnifying glass and a few incidents and the O’Bombers will be running for an undisclosed location
Today Baraka Hussein Obama (Junior) used his full name while he was campaigning
But nobody else can say his middle name!
OK
Baraka Limo Osama Junior
Pager went out again, PROXY ERROR!!
I think much of the population does not have any idea of his background, and then we have the ‘pansy,s’, like my local newspaper editor, who would not speak a word against muslims.
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Gather all those who are Muzzie-PC and put them in one area surrounded by Muzzies
The doctor who saved my life is head of the Islamic Temple here in town. He’s a wonderful surgeon.
So - I am hesitant to write letters to the editor about things like that.
She was attractive and smart, just like her son. Interesting story.
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