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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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To: FrankR
We don't even know that, for sure.

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Good point.

61 posted on 04/20/2011 9:28:11 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: US Navy Vet
Kinda make ya wish Baraks’ mommy would have miscarried.

Just "Kinda?" ;-)

62 posted on 04/20/2011 9:29:04 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Those acid trips and three-ways with Frank Marshall Davis influenced her, too.


63 posted on 04/20/2011 9:29:24 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: onyx; maggie

Janny Scott .. you hardly “covered every square inch of Stanley Ann Dunham’s life” .. merely that which you were allowed to know.


64 posted on 04/20/2011 9:32:17 AM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: kiltie65

You are exactly right. this has been discussed before when someone posted the story about the guy in Hawaii with a picture of himself and Obama when they were eight and the Honolulu Star published it and the story. The kid was not Obama, I swear.

The kid in the middle photograph on his grandad’s back in the surf is NOT Obama. He’s the same kid as in the Honolulu Star photo but it is not Obama. Different face (chunkier), different teeth, different and darker color. This is so wierd.


65 posted on 04/20/2011 9:32:28 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: Second Amendment First

Well, that decides it.

Forget Palin, Trump, Bachmann, and all the rest.

I’M VOTING FOR OBAMA AS MANY TIMES AS I CAN!!!!

(yes, sarcasm)


66 posted on 04/20/2011 9:34:43 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: onyx

She’s John Kerry in drag. Look at that chin.


67 posted on 04/20/2011 9:35:50 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: wac3rd

Obama sees things in terms of a Third World socialist. His father was an African Marxist and his mother a leftist skank. Nothing in his background or experience - far left community organizer, 20 years with the hate-monger Pastor Wright, close friendship with terrorist Bill Ayers, shady real estate deal with Syrian (now jailed) swindler Tony Rezko, associations with Louis Farrakhan and black militants - makes him a real American in terms of values or world view. Obama spent 150 days in the U.S. Senate, about 120 of them campaigning. He spent a few years in the Illinois state legislature voting “present.” Never has America been so poorly led. It’s like the nation committed “suicide by stupidity”.


68 posted on 04/20/2011 9:37:28 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: STARWISE

In skimming this horribly written article, I quickly saw that Stanley was nothing more than an ex-pat memsahib - complaining about nasty foreign servants. Stanley sounds a lot like the future Michelle.


69 posted on 04/20/2011 9:37:44 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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To: Darksheare
Double barf, with chunks and stereo sound.

ROTFL. And Dolby Surround Sound.

70 posted on 04/20/2011 9:40:21 AM PDT by library user (Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you're lazy.)
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To: ScottinVA

I was being “nice”.


71 posted on 04/20/2011 9:43:45 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: FrankR
It should never be forgotten that it was the Clintons who gave birth to the "birther" movement.

Early in the last presidential campaign, in August, 2008, Bill Clinton was asked if he thought Obama was qualified to be president.
Clinton's rather odd, cryptic reply:

"The constitution sets qualification for the president. And then the people decide who they think would be the better president."

Bill Clinton made this reference to the Constitution shortly after America's latest fad, the "community organizer" from Chicago, popped up out of nowhere and stole his wife's destiny by winning, in rather sleazy fashion, the Democrat nomination for President.

It has been my opinion since that time that the Clintons know something, and that it was they who quite deliberately fanned the flames of controversy over Obama's birth. Remember, it was a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter, Philadelphia lawyer Philip Berg, who launched *the first* Obama eligibility lawsuit. That lawsuit was filed in August of 2008, shortly after Bill Clinton made the curious reference to the Constitution when asked if he thought Obama was qualified to be President. Coincidental timing? Sure it was.

72 posted on 04/20/2011 9:44:34 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Second Amendment First

The first few lines induced projectile vomiting.

This is written drivel.


73 posted on 04/20/2011 9:45:33 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: onyx

Stanley and Stanley Ann needed some chin work.


74 posted on 04/20/2011 9:45:53 AM PDT by angcat (DEAR GOD PLEASE SAVE US!)
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To: Lancey Howard
Obama sees things in terms of a Third World socialist. His father was an African Marxist and his mother a leftist skank. Nothing in his background or experience - far left community organizer, 20 years with the hate-monger Pastor Wright, close friendship with terrorist Bill Ayers, shady real estate deal with Syrian (now jailed) swindler Tony Rezko, associations with Louis Farrakhan and black militants - makes him a real American in terms of values or world view. Obama spent 150 days in the U.S. Senate, about 120 of them campaigning. He spent a few years in the Illinois state legislature voting “present.” Never has America been so poorly led. It’s like the nation committed “suicide by stupidity”.

LH--this post is one of the most succinct and powerful posts ever on Free Republic.

I am not kidding.

You put in a few sentences the entire case for why Obama should never have become President.

Well done.

75 posted on 04/20/2011 9:52:43 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: Second Amendment First

” . . the white women from Kansas” This gives us a new view and understanding on the word “slut!”


76 posted on 04/20/2011 9:53:51 AM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: onyx
Notice the Muslim badge on the young barry while in Indonesia with his communist mother and father!
77 posted on 04/20/2011 9:55:38 AM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: paratrooper82
” . . the white women from Kansas” This gives us a new view and understanding on the word “slut!”


78 posted on 04/20/2011 9:57:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: digger48
Looks like a police line-up after the St. Valentine massacre!
79 posted on 04/20/2011 9:59:35 AM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: paratrooper82

I hadn’t!
I did notice, however, that the *Christian* played GOLF on Palm Sunday, instead of attending church!!


80 posted on 04/20/2011 10:08:41 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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