“Obama Sr.’s left arm and hand are pressuring her left shoulder so severely that Ann’s left shoulder is grotesquely (and one would think painfully) displaced a few inches lower than her right shoulder—and yet Ann blissfully smiles.”
I’m not so sure about that. Stan had a lot of hair, and the photo quality is so poo, I can’t really tell if that’s Sr.’s suit-coated arm, or Stan’s hair. Easy for the top of her sleeve to slip down a bit to look like her shoulder is lower than it really is.
Is there a better copy of that pic?
I just zoomed in as much as I could, and that’s her long hair on her left shoulder.