NYT Mag features new book..Obama interview about his mother:'She was a very strong person..

Politico ^ | 4-20-11 | Mike Allen

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NYT Mag features new book with Obama interview about his mother: 'She was a very strong person in her own way'

FIRST LOOK – New York Times Magazine cover story, “WHY SHE WENT: When Barry Obama was 6 years old [in 1967], his mother moved him to Indonesia.

It was a decision that would define his life and hers,” by Janny Scott, a reporter for The New York Times who went on leave in 2008 to write “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” from which this article, "The Young Mother Abroad," is adapted:

“The photograph showed the son, but my eye gravitated toward the mother. That first glimpse was surprising — the stout, pale-skinned woman in sturdy sandals, standing squarely a half-step ahead of the lithe, darker-skinned figure to her left.

His elastic-band body bespoke discipline, even asceticism. Her form was well padded, territory ceded long ago to the pleasures of appetite and the forces of anatomical destiny.

He had the studied casualness of a catalog model, in khakis, at home in the viewfinder. She met the camera head-on, dressed in hand-loomed textile dyed indigo, a silver earring half-hidden in the cascading curtain of her dark hair. She carried her chin a few degrees higher than most. His right hand rested on her shoulder, lightly.

The photograph, taken on a Manhattan rooftop in August 1987 and e-mailed to me 20 years later, was a revelation and a puzzle.

The man was Barack Obama at 26, the community organizer from Chicago on a visit to New York. The woman was Stanley Ann Dunham, his mother. …

It was impossible not to question the stereotype to which she had been expediently reduced: the white woman from Kansas. … The earthy figure in the photograph did not fit any of those [oversimplifications], as I learned over the course of two and a half years of research, travel and nearly 200 interviews. …

“When we spoke last July, Obama recalled … serial displacements.

‘I think that was harder on a 10-year-old boy than he’d care to admit at the time,’ Obama said, sitting in a chair in the Oval Office and speaking about his mother with a mix of affection and critical distance. ‘When we were separated again during high school, at that point I was old enough to say, “This is my choice, my? decision.”

But being a parent now and looking back at that, I could see — you know what? — that would be hard on a kid.’ He spoke about his mother with fondness, humor and a degree of candor that I had not expected.

There was also in his tone at times a hint of gentle forbearance. Perhaps it was the tone of someone whose patience had been tested, by a person he loved, to the point where he had stepped back to a safer distance. Or perhaps it was the knowingness of a grown child seeing his parent as irredeemably human. ‘She was a very strong person in her own way,’ Obama said, when I asked about Ann’s limitations as a mother. ‘Resilient, able to bounce back from setbacks, persistent — the fact that she ended up finishing her dissertation.

But despite all those strengths, she was not a well-organized person. And that disorganization, you know, spilled over.

Had it not been for my grandparents, I think, providing some sort of safety net financially, being able to take me and my sister on at certain spots, I think my mother would have had to make some different decisions. And I think that sometimes she took for granted that, “Well, it’ll all work out, and it’ll be fine.”

But the fact is, it might not always have been fine, had it not been for my grandmother. . . . Had she not been there to provide that floor, I think our young lives could have been much more chaotic than they were.’

“But he did not, he said, hold his mother’s choices against her. Part of being an adult is seeing your parents ‘as people who have their own strengths, weaknesses, quirks, longings.’

He did not believe, he said, that parents served their children well by being unhappy. If his mother had cramped her spirit, it would not have given him a happier childhood. As it was, she gave him the single most important gift a parent can give — ‘a sense of unconditional love that was big enough that, with all the surface disturbances of our lives, it sustained me, entirely.’’

Article .. See the cover: “Barack Obama [in pirate hat and patch] with his mother in Hawaii. Photograph from friends and family of Stanley Ann Dunham.”

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She pours it on, doesn’t she ?

[patlin]

Abercommie using Alinsky rule # 12..personalize to portray us as defecating on the memory of Obama’s parents...

Now the book that makes one want to puke...

This is the “dreams” scenario all ready to play out for the 2012 election to pull at the heartstrings of gullible koolaide drinkers. The problem, barry didn't have a record then, he now does. It's sad to think that they have so little respect for the intelligence of the American public that they think they can regurgitate this trick again.

[wardaddy]

She was a weirdo for her time...extremely rare.

Race mixing was almost unheard of then except amongst crusaders like her or jazz girls.

But even forgetting the mores of the time...there she was at 17 ..just short of 18 .....just away from home and she allows herself to be plucked by an older African married man?...many freepers would consider a 25 year old man with a 17 year old girl a crime (not me) as would some states

1961?

it's just very very odd

and from that bizarre coupling we got this President and his mindset.

man her folks must have been just as unusual...I fear she was a slattern..and a save the worlder

girls like her when I was at Ole Miss usually offered themselves up to Arab exchange students..often in group sessions

how Obama behaves towards America, White Culture , Christianity and yes Judaism as well as Western Civilization all comes from this:

His crazy mom had jungle (yes I know Kenya is more arid) fever and he has resented that forever...where that placed him. I understand that really but I hate that we share the consequence and his desire for revenge basically against a culture he despises and feels never accepted him completely.

It's funny that the great black avenger or anti-Christ or whatever..is really half white.

Who coulda made all this up and how did the media even as lib as they are...let this guy campaign unchallenged?

He's a malignant narcissist and needs therapy more than the job he has.

[rightwingextremist1776]

It has nothing to do with “feel” and everything to do with the TRUTH.

[wardaddy]

if Obama was a full term baby then yes she was having impregnated at 17

by a 25 year old married man

no question she was cavorting with him before her 18th

and listen...most white girls then did not have sex before marriage

i know it's difficult for younger freepers to imagine but over 60 folks here can tell you that most girls then unless trashy only had sex at marriage or maybe in the few months at the end of a betrothal before the wedding

[Mortrey]

Interesting time to release this book....ya know—Corsi’s book getting coverage and all....

[chris37]

She was a whore.

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Yes .. Corsi's book is the big Drudge headline today

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BOOK TO REVEAL OBAMA'S 'TRUE' IDENTITY?
Wed Apr 20 2011 10:35:52 ET

**Exclusive**

This year's high stakes publishing project quietly went to press this week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

After years of research and digging by the nation's top private investigators, here it comes:

"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President."

MORE

The street date is a LONG month away, and author Jerome Corsi, the man who torpedoed John Kerry's presidential dreams with SWIFT BOAT, has gone underground and is holding his new findings thisclose.

"It's utterly devastating," reveals a source close to the publisher. "Obama may learn things he didn't even know about himself!"

MORE

Does Corsi definitively declare the location of Obama's birth?

Will the president's attorneys attempt to interfere with the book's distribution? [The publisher vows to vigorously fight any legal action that may be taken.]

Will the book finally -- once and for all -- put an end to the growing controversy?

Or will it just ignite new ones!?

"When Donald Trump said he sent PIs to Hawaii to get to the bottom of all this, he meant this book," declares an insider.

[THE CASE ranked #1,341 on AMAZON's hitparade late Wednesday morning.]

Developing...

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[ilovesarah2012]

Heavy!

[Georgia Girl 2]

“i know it’s difficult for younger freepers to imagine but over 60 folks here can tell you that most girls then unless trashy only had sex at marriage or maybe in the few months at the end of a betrothal before the wedding”

So true and in 1961 most 17 year old girls were strictly supervised by their parents and were not out on their own running around with 25 year old guys. And I hate to say it but at that time salt and pepper was a big no no. There were always one or two girls in every high school who were considered loose and everybody knew who they were. I’m thinking Stanley Ann was probably one of those girls. It was a different world back then.

[PghBaldy]

She was just on nation TV the other day. I think the last name is Ng. Her TOTUS-bro should buy her a vowel.

[mojitojoe]

I’ll 2nd that.

[mojitojoe]

Fake picture

[NFHale]

Truth hurts....

Hurts even more - because of her promiscuous actions and thoughtless behavior, WE have to deal with this marxist idiot and his comrades. WE’RE paying the price for her bad decisions.

Very strange - when you look back over the course of lives, how all the most innocuous of things suddenly become very important down the road.

[mojitojoe]

Janny Scott was a reporter for The New York Times from 1994 to 2009, when she left to write this book. Scott lives in New York City. Nuff said.

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I’ve thought about that .. how her selfish choices put a little innocent boy in such turmoil .. really tragic. And so he was forced to develop and rationalize his persona and outer brave front to survive and cope in ways no small child should ever have to .. to overcompensate for all that wackiness, chaos and stress she foisted on him.

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I should add ..

and she created a monster.

[JoeFromSidney]

The Constitutional question is whether Barry is natural born citizen. However, another question is whether he is a citizen at all. If he became an Indonesian citizen while living there, did he ever reclaim American citizenship?

[philman_36]

Yikes! It's a Somali pirate!
Oh, wait...never mind.
He's Kenyan, just like his father.

[Covenantor]

Just so.

The high school I attended in Washington, DC in the early sixties had a “home for wayward girls” across the street from the back of the school. Our JROTC formed up and drilled on that street an hour before the start of the school day. The pregnant white young “ladies” would hang out the windows and laughingly shout obscenities at us. The first time in my life I heard profanities from a girl’s mouth. In was also my first hearing of white trash.

I can recall only two “loose” girls suddenly transferring out in mid-year during my time there. And both had been shunned pretty much by nearly all their classmates.

A time of blessed innocent ignorance for most of us in that era so soon ended.