Ann Dunham's time in Indonesia was spent as a programme officer for women's work
Posted on 11/22/2008 3:51:07 PM PST by bruinbirdman
A cache of private letters attained by The Sunday Times reveals the influences that helped shape the young Obama
Ann Dunham's time in Indonesia was spent as a programme officer for women's work
In his autobiographical memoir, Barack Obama’s mother is almost as distant a figure as his absent Kenyan father: America’s president-elect was largely brought up by his grandparents in Hawaii. But a trove of private letters obtained by The Sunday Times highlights her devotion to her son and her struggle to make ends meet as an anthropologist in Indonesia.
It was as a free-spirited student in Hawaii that Ann Dunham fell pregnant and married Obama’s father at 18, at a time when interracial unions were still illegal in many parts of America. They divorced when Obama was two and she later married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian. It was the start of a long love affair with his country, although the marriage did not last.
Dunham died at 52 of ovarian cancer in 1995, leaving behind a 1,000-page doctoral thesis on peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia, which friends still hope will gain her academic recognition. They believe her support for micro-financing projects and women’s work in Indonesia influenced Obama’s determination to build a grassroots campaign for president - and may yet shape his economic agenda in office.
Alice Dewey, a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii, was Dunham’s close friend and thesis supervisor. For her, Obama will always be “Barry”, as his mother called him. Dunham also had a daughter from her second marriage, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is now a teacher in Hawaii.
“I have a vivid picture of Ann on a couch, Maya going and sitting on her lap and Barry, not wanting to be left out, sitting on Maya’s lap -
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What if she was also manic-depressive? It is a common trait when manic... What kind of MOM leaves her first-born with her parents? Being a tramp is one thing, but that is a whole new level of something. I would LOVE to see a shrink’s notes on him.
Anyone actually able to put their hands on a copy of her 1067-pages-long dissertation, “Peasant Blacksmithing”?
There are appearantly 5 hard copies in libraries here in the US. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78077741. Don’t know about digital copies online...
There might be some important facts, previously overlooked, in the “Forward” or “Biography” sections. Facts that could be helpful in upcoming Supreme Court cases.
Seems I recall a story about priest falling on a potato a week ago.
My mom is always worried about us kids slipping on floor... Awful things and strange accidents can occur...
Yeah. I'd like to see that too and why did he go to a private school when he came back to Hawaii?
I'm not so sure she did. It does say she made a career out of living in Indonesia, even after she split with Obama's adoptive father. I think Obama only went to live with his grandparents later so that they could pay for his education in an American collage. Up until that time, obama was just as is suspected, an Indonesian citizen living in indonesia up until it was time to attend collage.
Because the regular kids at the public school would have taken his lunch money from him every day.
Is it just me or does she look like a female Glen Quagmire from Family Guy?
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By fallin down on da bet, ya know.
She was a real nut.....
This is such a contrived POS politician it makes me sick.
Terrific!!!
Too bad Oreilly wouldn’t read that on the air!!!
You know, feeling as good ole Barry does about pregnancy and punishment, wonder if he's considered that his mother might have felt that way about him and should have aborted him.
That's for sure. Women get knocked UP pregnant.
Like another post says, liberals think pregnancy is a disease they contract like syphilis, which needs to be eradicated so they can continue on participating in that contact sport called casual sex.
ROFLMAO....’fell pregnant” is so ANTI LEFTIST FEMINISM !
They just can never get it right, ha. That’s like saying “out of wedlock” which is also not politically correct.
sounds like she fainted, or got a tan , instead of bearing a child. ha.
LOL!!!!
British speak a bit differently, sometimes. :)
LOL!!!
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