[2ndDivisionVet]

Interesting article.

[samtheman]

And when Obama is President his shoe is going to leave a deep imprint on all our faces.

[Beckwith]

ping!

Have you seen this?

[Beckwith]

Obama's stepfather, who Dunham wed after her marriage to the senator's Kenyan father ended, started working for an American oil company and would grumble about his wife's refusal to attend company dinner parties with him.

In "Dreams," Obama sheds some light on his formative years and the political views of his mother, an anthropologist and Islamophile who hated America and subsequently goes native.

"Looking back, I'm not sure Lolo ever fully understood what my mother was going through ... why the things he was working so hard to provide for her seemed only to increase the distance between them ... He landed a job in the government relations department of an American oil company. ... Sometimes I would overhear him and my mother arguing in their bedroom, usually about her refusal to attend his company dinner parties, where American businessmen from Texas and Louisiana would slap Lolo's back and boast about the palms they had greased to obtain the new offshore drilling rights, while their wives complained to my mother about the quality of Indonesian help. He would ask her how it would look for him to go alone, and remind her that these were her own people, and my mother's voice would rise to almost a shout."

"They are not my people!"

The Obama File

[ikka]

Obama's mother marries an African at 18, and anyone who knew anything about Africa could have told her about their polygamous ways.

Then at 24 she is married to an Indonesian who is trying to work hard and make good with Americans, and she won't go to American parties!

I get the feeling that Mom was kind of ... stupid.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Obama’s Indonesia experience was cut short in 1971 when he was sent to attend an
American school and live with grandparents in Hawaii, while Dunham stayed on with her husband

Thanks for posting this article. I've wondered about this guy for a long time.
He was born Aug. 4th 1961 in Honolulu
and then returned to Hawaii in 1971 to live with his "white"
grandparents. So he only lived with his "ex-pat" mother for 10 years. He only lived with
with his Black father for the first 2 years of his life, yet he claims he's black.

I'm having a hard time here.
Just by the time line of his life he has had more of a white influence than black.
Yet he claims to be a black man.

After graduation from High School, he went to Occidental College in LA.
received his two year degree, and off to NYC to Columbia University. Then to Harvard Law.
Not bad for a poor black kid without maternal direction. Something doesn't smell right here.

[clamper1797]

Indonesia left deep Muslim imprint on Obama

[syriacus]

Dunham, ... was close to the "orang kecil" (ordinary people),

Obama's mother was close to TIPs, Typical Indonesian People.