I can only guess how that came about...the story has it that Stanley Ann graduated from Mercer Island in the summer of 1960...therefor the parent's arrival in Hawaii has been calculated from that; some people may have found it difficult to understand how Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham would leave their daughter alone on Mercer Island while they went to Hawaii...
As for the 'married in 1960' date that sounds like an attempt to make the child legitimate. Born in August 1961, must have been conceived in November 1960...
Even the obots that write these stories stumble over the difficulties the chronology of 'Dreams' presents...then he himself confounds the issue by telling how his 'father' was part of the Kennedy airlift - which didn't commence until 1960.
ditto you all you say, but it does explain your 1959 photo, unless Stanley came ahead to Hawaii & mom and Ann stayed behind for a year. Certain questions you ask linger in my memory & that photo was one of them.
Going to keep that 1959 date in mind. As for the “1960” marriage, that was my first thought, but I am also going to keep that date in mind because one thing I notice about our BHO is that he rarely speaks, acts, disguises or reveals from an emotional base; his motives are almost always political. In fact he seems to lack emotional bonds to anyone, anyone. Every person in his life becomes fodder to put into his “narrative” as he sees fit.
From the Puget Sound Business Journal, January '08:
"You can't turn on the television or go to dinner without hearing or seeing something about Barack Obama and his freight train run for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Republicans and Democrats are buzzing about Obama, although not always for the same reason.
Following it all closely is Susan Blake of Mercer Island, who went to Mercer Island High School with Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham, and graduated with her close friend in 1960.
'The day after we graduated, she (Stanley) and her mother were on an airplane to Hawaii, to join her father who had already found a home for them to live,' says Blake."
Stanley Armour Dunham went to Hawaii before Madelyn and Ann. That would explain his presence in what could be a welcoming photo for BO, Sr., and somewhat explain the muddled dates in the book of dreams.