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Obama’s Young Mother Abroad
New York Times ^ | April 20, 2011 | JANNY SCOTT

Posted on 04/20/2011 8:30:51 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

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 be struck by the similarities, and the dissimilarities, between them. It was impossible not to question the stereotype to which she had been expediently reduced: the white woman from Kansas.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anndunham; annsoetoro; barrysoetoro; birthcertificate; certifigate; communism; eligibility; fellowtravelers; grifters; indonesia; islam; lolosoetoro; marxism; obama; pakistan; progressives; socialism; soetoro; stanleyann; stanleyanndunham
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1 posted on 04/20/2011 8:30:52 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Barf.


2 posted on 04/20/2011 8:33:28 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter; Second Amendment First

Double barf, with chunks and stereo sound.


3 posted on 04/20/2011 8:34:27 AM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: Second Amendment First

Oh, the humanity... !


4 posted on 04/20/2011 8:37:59 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Second Amendment First

I could not read the whole thing but I’m sure somewhere in the article it talked about the three wise men and how they brought Obama gold etc.....


5 posted on 04/20/2011 8:38:29 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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LOL! Here you go: ...who believed her son in particular had the potential to be great; who raised him to be, as he has put it jokingly, a combination of Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Harry Belafonte; and then died at 52, never knowing who or what he would become.
7 posted on 04/20/2011 8:43:19 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: Second Amendment First

if I hadn’t seen the nude photo’s of her I would doubt she was ‘ a broad ‘


8 posted on 04/20/2011 8:43:54 AM PDT by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: Second Amendment First
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9 posted on 04/20/2011 8:44:46 AM PDT by imfrmdixie (A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Eisenhower)
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To: Second Amendment First

This was all coordinated, folks. Corsi’s book........now these stories?


10 posted on 04/20/2011 8:45:51 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama's 2012 Slogan: "We've got what it takes, to take what you've got"!)
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To: maggief; STARWISE; hoosiermama; Second Amendment First
Damage Control.........LOL.

VIEW STANLEY'S ANN'S *Milestones*


Stanley Ann Dunham at Borobudur in Indonesia, in the early 1970s.


"Says" In Hawaii with Stanley Ann
From the Obama Campaign


Obama campaign


"SAYS" = HAWAII TIME Barack Obama with his father at the Honolulu airport at Christmas in 1971

11 posted on 04/20/2011 8:49:23 AM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Second Amendment First

Here...let me sum it up for you: She was a communist whore. There.


12 posted on 04/20/2011 8:50:31 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: Second Amendment First

That title. Too funny.


13 posted on 04/20/2011 8:51:30 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Second Amendment First
Strange article to be printing now. The article seems to be a foundational, background piece for somebody who's been on the world's center stage going on 3 years now.

“If you want to grow into a human being,” Obama remembers her saying, “you’re going to need some values.”

Really? His mother said that? It sounds like a lab tech talking to a specimen. When did the term "values" come into vogue?

14 posted on 04/20/2011 8:51:40 AM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: skeeter

Holy cow! Are the adjectives flyin’ in this turgid piece or what? The writing style of The Times declines year after year.


15 posted on 04/20/2011 8:51:46 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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To: Second Amendment First

She looks a lot like Miss Gulch. With apologies to Miss Gulch, who did not personally whelp a menace to the community.


16 posted on 04/20/2011 8:52:11 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Public education is WELFARE.)
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To: SF_Redux

I believe those pictures were taken by Frank Marshall Davis, her commie lover. Don’t see his name in the article.


17 posted on 04/20/2011 8:52:16 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Whatever it takes. It’s about time the MSM started looking into who this guy is.


18 posted on 04/20/2011 8:53:36 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Never forget ... Obama’s passport records had to be “cauterized” in the 2008 primaries by former CIA and Obama’s Intel Adviser John O’Brennan.


19 posted on 04/20/2011 8:54:29 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen (BHO II naturalized as U.S. Citizen after becoming an Indonesian National)
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To: onyx

OK, I’m late to all the stories about Obama’s paternity. Can you please tell me who is the dead-ringer gentleman on the beach with Obama sitting on his back?


20 posted on 04/20/2011 8:55:34 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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