Posted on 06/03/2011 1:23:47 PM PDT by pabianice
LONDON For a long time Barack Obamas mother was little more than the white woman from Wichita mentioned in an early Los Angeles Times profile of the future president. She was the pale Kansan silhouette against whom Obama drew the vivid Kenyan figure of his absent Dad in his Bildungsroman of discovered black identity, Dreams from My Father.
Now, thanks to Janny Scotts remarkable A Singular Woman, absence has become presence. Stanley Ann Dunham, the parent who raised Obama, emerges from romanticized vagueness into contours as original as her name. Far from floating through foreign things, as one colleague in Indonesia observes, She was as type A as anybody on the team.
That may seem a far-fetched description of a woman who was not good with money, had no fixed abode and did not see life through ambitions narrow prism. It was the journey not the destination that mattered to Dunham. She was, in her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ngs words, fascinated with lifes gorgeous minutiae. To her son the president, idealism and naïveté were embedded in her.
Yet she was also a pioneering advocate of microcredit in the rural communities of the developing world, an unrivaled authority on Javanese blacksmithing, and a firm voice for female empowerment in an Indonesia of smiling or gentle oppression toward women, as she wrote in one memo for the Ford Foundation.
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Stanley Ann Dunham worked for Peter F. Geithner. The turbo-tax kids father.Peter was the director of the Ford Foundation. Obamas mother Ann looked over the Ford micro finance program she was developing.
Timothy spent most of his childhood in Zimbabwe, Zambia, India, Thailand and finished high school in Bangkok.To think Obama father worked for shell oil and his step father worked for Mobil oil!Peter F Geithner was also inter woven with Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers and Bob Schrank who was the author of Growing up Radical and Red in the USA!
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I don’t know like about being useful, more like useless. As my husband would say, like a third tit.
These women were both looking for the meaning of life and never found it. At least Rachel Corrie died before she could mess up anyone else’s life in the process.
Her father really wanted a son. I imagine knowing that could mess up a girl, especially since she was given a boy’s name. One messed up family.
Are you sure? My read indicates it is possible that the father may be other than BHO Sr.
Uh, he didn't grow up in the Kansas type of America. He grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, likely quite the places for bi-raciality acceptance.
The family moved to Seattle in 1955. I’d hardly call Stanley Ann a Kansas gal. Her formative years were spent in the Pacific Northwest.
The hippie skank from the “lil’ red schoolhouse” Is how I would characterize her.
Yeah, put that one up against Herman Cain’s actual American Dream story and that pretty much sums up the two. Here’s a news flash, a cute blonde woman with few intellectual abilities, no determination and no ambition can float through life on a series of interested-for-a-while men.
Yeah, I am certain she was an “unrivaled expert at javanese blacksmithing” There is no doubt in my mind that she knew far more about it that any 10th generation Javanese blacksmith! Seems like Obama got his skill at self absorbtion from her.
So he invited her to Miami.
>>>I’m so tired of all the sad stories about white “baby mommas” getting mistreated by their black “baby daddies” that I’m just losing all my natural sympathy for these poor souls...<<<
I’ve a girlfriend who oft complains of the misadventures of her ‘ethnic’ ghetto-thug boyfriends and I once told her thjat there was NOTHING wrong with the boyfriends as they were who they are. What’s wrong is her taste in men and I told her so long as she keeps seeking out losers she’ll keep dealing with them.
“Obama Sr., who loved her and left her for Harvard.
This was a surprising statement to read from someone who also concedes: “in some essential sense Dreams from My Father was fictionalized.”
How could Obama Sr. legally marry Little Suzie Roundheels Stanley Ann in the USA when he was already married?
Simple answer - he couldn't.
“combat boots.”
Make that rubber boots, please. ;>
Stanley Ann, you ignorant slut.....
Mercer Island is freaking outrageously expensive. Has been for decades.
Cutthroat working people by day.......Commies by night.
“was 27, not 25”
So, she was underage (17) and statutorially raped by a foreigner?
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