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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Succinctly stated.
Definitely a nominee for 2011’s Bulwer-Lytton prize.
His grandfather! Stanley Ann’s *father*!
Actually, referring to her that way kinda gives broads a bad name.
No kidding. That’s the Dad.
Who’s the white dude?
Obama’s book tells a story of the step father going to visit with some Americans. Obama’s mother said, “Those are NOT my people!”
The book also has Obama admitting he attended a Muslim school, something later “debunked” by Obama defenders.
I’m guessing Grandpa Dunham.
Boy! She was one butt-ugly little commie!
Yes!
The whores father.
Agreed. But I managed to read most of the article. It was useful in further strengthening the idea of how much of Bambi was formed in Indonesia. The cold attitude etc. The article was good in that respect. It just helps prove he really is not American in his inner soul. There is much our enemy can supply us if we know how to use the info.
You wanna see butt ugly, look at her nudes.
His grandfather! Stanley Ann’s *father*!
the NY Times taking several hundred words to say that his mom was a fat slob...
I notice their timeline has her marrying Obama before Barry’s conception.
She looks like the mean witch in the Wizard of Oz.
But she has nothing on the NYT when it comes to being a whore for the 0 WH.
Is that 0bama Sr. or Soetoro?
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