What is the question that “Honolulu” answers?
Is it just me or does Mrs. Soetoro look a lot like Caroline Kennedy? No, I’m not suggesting anything, but that was my first impression.
A female John Kerry...
"Tempat dan Tanggal Lahir" means place and date of birth.
it means “place and date of birth”.
oviously birthplace. Which doesn’t mean it’s true.
I don't see it at all, but Caroline's hair was similar thirty years ago.
Someone who tells lies is a L __ __ r?
What's more likely? That Obama's mom gave away his nationality (which legally she couldn't do) and made him a Muslim and that he's been lying about it ever since? Or that she and Lolo told the authorities he was a Muslim and an Indonesian just to avoid trouble with them?
I'm not saying it's an easy question, but I get the feeling Obama's mom would tell them what the school wanted to hear just to get the authorities off her back, rather than go to the trouble to change his nationality (which she couldn't legally do). She was "nonconformist" about things like that.
The religious questions a little harder. I suppose if his stepfather took him to Muslim prayers, Muslim extremists could find him to be an apostate and worthy of stoning, but his mother wasn't religious, and I haven't seen any evidence that his stepfather was either.
You can think that because she wasn't Christian and married two Muslim men that she must have been devoted to Allah and the Koran, just like some people think that because the Dunham's weren't conservative evangelicals, they must have been Communists, but in the real world, there are a lot of options in between the two alternatives.
Obama got as far as he has by blurring lines. He's Black, but not too Black or Black in the "wrong" way. He's not White, but he sort of is. He's an urban politician, but suburban in style. He's been a Christian, but also secular.
In the campaign, Obama talked so much about change that people didn't care what specific changes he wanted. He poses as decisive, without really making or having made many decisions in his political life. He proposes the biggest changes in two or three generations, but he convinced the Obamacons that he was a "Burkean" moderate.
So what's more likely, that he's a passionate, devoted Muslim? Or that things are blurred where that's concerned as well?
You're right! She does.