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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: devolve

Excellent post devolve.


281 posted on 03/11/2008 5:56:43 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: devolve; george76; justiceseeker93

282 posted on 03/11/2008 6:00:43 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

Thanks.

I like that picture that looks like he has no teeth.


283 posted on 03/11/2008 6:06:56 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Palladin

yes

Show me your company and I’ll tell you what YOU are!


284 posted on 03/11/2008 6:08:39 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76; devolve

[I like that picture that looks like he has no teeth.]

Truthfully I’m hoping his wife knocked them out when she found out!!


285 posted on 03/11/2008 6:11:08 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

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LOL!

You’ve got the whole story exposed there potlatch!


286 posted on 03/11/2008 6:11:40 PM PDT by devolve (------- --------NY Prostitutor-Governor Spitzer? ----------One more FOB is gone!)
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To: devolve

Yep, just didn’t put in the half naked girlie picts!


287 posted on 03/11/2008 6:16:37 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

I am surprised that she was at his press conference.


288 posted on 03/11/2008 6:22:15 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76; devolve

[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!


289 posted on 03/11/2008 6:27:23 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: devolve; potlatch; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; Grampa Dave; SoCalPol

290 posted on 03/11/2008 6:29:39 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: boop
" 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."

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.

291 posted on 03/11/2008 6:30:02 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: cookcounty

I read Black Like Me. Great book BTW. But that is the opposite of what Obama claimed.


292 posted on 03/11/2008 6:40:45 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: wardaddy

I couldn’t agree with you more!
And, I mean every...single...word.


293 posted on 03/11/2008 7:16:19 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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To: PhilDragoo

That’s quite a combination.


294 posted on 03/11/2008 7:32:50 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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To: devolve

amazing he can run for POTUS....what a fall for us

many in our nation are weakened by guilt

it’s our kryptonite


295 posted on 03/11/2008 10:30:57 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; wardaddy

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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


296 posted on 03/11/2008 10:56:20 PM PDT by devolve (------- --------NY Prostitutor-Governor Spitzer? ----------One more FOB is gone!)
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To: devolve

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.


297 posted on 03/11/2008 11:03:01 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

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Gather all those who are Muzzie-PC and put them in one area surrounded by Muzzies


298 posted on 03/11/2008 11:20:59 PM PDT by devolve (------- --------NY Prostitutor-Governor Spitzer? ----------One more FOB is gone!)
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To: devolve

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.


299 posted on 03/11/2008 11:44:19 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: CarrotAndStick

She was attractive and smart, just like her son. Interesting story.


300 posted on 03/12/2008 9:11:41 AM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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