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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Marries two men so outside her culture they might as well been from Mars; dumps them in the wink of an eye; unloads her son on her parents to go do her thing - and - we’re supposed to buy the idea she was so devoted to BO.
LOL!
Methinks womyn and revolutionary Marxism were more important than anything else in her miserable life.
“A 1,000 doctoral thesis on peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia”
**A real `page turner’, you betcha.***
To a part time former horseshoer blacksmith like me it mught be interesting. But then I still have THE MODERN BLACKSMITH by Alexander G. Weygers. It has a small section on Indonesian blacksmiths.
O mother = slut
Actually, the blacksmithing information is about the only thing that I actually find interesting about this goofball woman. I’m always on the lookout for old-tech info and anything on smithing.
I thought he said the used the food stamp system while attending private schools.
My understanding that after about 10 yo, he was with his grandparents.
I’d say she was totally fixated on herself, to the point where she just abandoned her kid and went back to her self-fulfilling dream of being an anthropologist.
I didn’t realize that she never got her doctorate because her thesis never got done.
I have assumed, since I first heard of her because of Barry’s sudden prominence, that she probably read Margaret Mead and fell in love with the ideas found there. Lots of free, guiltless sex with South Sea Islanders and people of other races and cultures. None of those up-tight western rules and constraints.
She died of ovarian cancer. Maybe it was ljust bad luck. Maybe it was STDs, picked up from her Margaret Mead type lifestyle. If you have multiple sexual partners with people who also have multiple sexual partners, it’s liable to have bad health consequences as well as moral consequences.
It will probably be available soon on Amazon, as well grad school required reading lists.
Well, the obvious questions to ask her “close friend and thesis supervisor” Ms. Dewey are ones concerning baby boy Barry’s birth circumstances, i.e. where, when, under what conditions, etc. And also questions about where and when the loving mother got married and divorced.
Lew, in ks
***A very cool and very skilled guy. ***
Definitly. I bought my books back in 1975 and still read them quite often.
I haven’t read the book but a friend who has said she came away thinking 0bama had no core, was an empty slate. This is one very scary guy.
Yep. Most likely viruses carried to her ovaries by the 'issue' of her partners.
Cervical cancer is of the same origin and prostate cancer is probably a disease of promiscuity as well.
Increasing promiscuity would explain the increased rate for all of these cancers.
As I’m reading, I’m wondering how does a woman “fall” pregnant?
His grandparents were probably communists or sympathetic at the very least.
Why else would grandpa take O to Frank Marshall Davis' home?
“free-spirited student” = promiscuous communist slattern
A lot of parents leave their children to be raised by their grandparents, O is not unique in that manner.
” “Barry is working in New York this year, saving his pennies so he can travel”. “
To Pockeystan with his Muslim roommates.
Imagine if Sarah Palin had done this.
“Her son’s job, according to Dunham, was to write reports for a consultancy on social, economic and political conditions in the Third World.
In those days Obama was a young radical.
“He calls it ‘working for the enemy’ because some of the reports are written for commercial firms that want to invest in those countries,”
Now he’s an older radical with the same views.
Corporate America is the enemy, not Al Queda.
“.. she explained she had to put her own studies on hold to pay for Obama’s.
“The major reason for the delay in my return to Hawaii [was] the need to work to put my son through college,” she wrote.”
Guess going to all those conferences on socialism at Cooper Union prevented Obama from getting a job.
Dreams From My Father-page 122.
Plus, the dope smoking and traveling to Pakistan.
Is there any evidence, anywhere, that Barry has ever done an honest day’s work in his entire life ?
Add laziest president to Obama’s resume.
a forsenic psychologist has weighed in
http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/pennsylvania/paedce/2:2008cv04083/281573/16/
but I don’t think he knew about Hawaii’s unusual law when it comes to registering out of state births.
Remember during the NBA playoffs last year, they ran those TV ads with half of Kevin Garnett's face aligned (sort of) with half of Kobe Bryant's face, both reading from the same script?
Same thing.
;-/
A “treasure trove” of “private letters” surfaces just a couple of weeks after Stanley Ann’s mother dies, and the Great One still cannot find a valid USA birth certificate?
This couldn’t have been written in a fiction novel.
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