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The dominant person in President Obama’s life — his mother
The Picayune Item ^ | February 28, 2009 | Stanley Watson

Posted on 02/28/2009 8:15:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Barack’s mother was given the name Stanley because her father, Stanley Dunham, had expected a boy and refused to give up on the name when she turned out to be a girl. She went by the name Stanley through grade school and high school and only began to introduce herself as Ann when she entered college.

Stanley Ann Dunham’s great-great grandfather, Jacob Dunham, had been a farmer in Tipton County, Indiana in the 1870s. He later owned restaurants and a confectionary in the Oklahoma Territory. Her father, at the age of nine, discovered his mother’s body after she had committed suicide. He and his brother Ralph were raised by their grandparents when their father went away.

Stanley Dunham grew up “gregarious, friendly, impetuous, challenging and loud.” In fact his social aggressiveness landed him in trouble when he punched his high school principal and was kicked out of school. As an adult, Stanley was a successful furniture salesman who “could charm the legs off a couch.”

When Stanley Ann reached puberty she embraced a lifelong philosophy. When she was 13 years of age her parents made a critical decision. Instead of following the evangelical tradition of their Baptist/Methodist families in which adolescents are led to accept the Lord and obey his teachings, Stanley Ann’s family moved to Mercer Island, Washington so that Stanley Ann could attend Mercer Island High School which had just opened. There, liberal teachers Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman taught the importance of challenging society and questioning everything in society including the traditions of the church and family.

According to her classmates, Stanley Ann took the lessons to heart; A classmate remembers her as “intellectually way more mature than we were and a little bit ahead of her time, in an off-center way.She felt she didn’t need to date or marry or have children.. we were liberals before we knew what liberals were.” Another called her “the original feminist.”

Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, Stanley Ann’s parents, lived in four states before finally settling in Hawaii. After their only child graduated from high school she enrolled in the University of Hawaii. Now introducing herself as Ann, she got acquainted with Barack Obama, a black Kenyan student who had come to the University of Hawaii in order to study for a degree in economics. Ann, age 18, was very attracted to the 23-year-old student from Africa and was three months pregnant when she married him on February 2, 1961, despite parental opposition.

Obama Sr.’s first wife, Kezia, granted her consent for him to marry a second wife in keeping with their Kenyan tribal custom. (Stanley Ann would not find out until later that her new husband was already married and a father.) To her credit, Ann assumed the role of a traditional mother, carried her baby to full term and dropped out of college to take care of him. Her marriage to Barack Sr. was brief, ending in divorce in early 1964.

For the first six years of his life, Barack and his mother lived with her parents in Hawaii. During those tender years, when his basic personality was being formed, he had the thought-provoking influence of his very intelligent mother as well as the love and care of her extraordinary parents.

Obama Sr. completed his degree and graduated in June 1962 and entered Harvard University. When Stanley Ann filed for divorce in January 1964, Obama Sr. did not contest it and the divorce was granted. He earned a doctor’s degree from Harvard and returned to Kenya, where he was highly regarded as a government economist.

Barack’s mother later married an Indonesian oil manager named Lolo Soetoro and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. Obama remembers that country as being very lush but very poor. In her second marriage Ann had a daughter, Maya Kassandra, who grew up to become a noted educator in Indonesia.

When a reporter asked Maya if her mother was an atheist she answered, “I wouldn’t have called her an atheist. She was an agnostic. She basically gave us all the good books — the Bible, the Hindu Upanishads and the Buddhist scripture, the Tao Te Ching — and wanted us to recognize that everyone has something beautiful to contribute.. Mom didn’t really emphasize the Koran, but we read little parts of it. We did listen to morning prayers in Indonesia.”

After her second marriage also ended in divorce, Ann moved Back to Hawaii and lived with her parents while attending graduate school. There she remained until 1977, when she returned to Indonesia to do fieldwork. Young Barack decided not to go with his mother but remained with his grandparents in Hawaii where the family lived in a small apartment. His grandfather was a furniture salesman and his grandmother worked in a bank. Nevertheless Barack enrolled in the prestigious Punahou School, Hawaii’s top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, although he traveled around the world on official business for Kenya, he managed to visit his son only once, back when Barack was ten years of age.

Dr. Stanley Ann did outstanding research and consulting work as an anthropologist in several locations around the world. Eager to help rural people in cottage industries make ends meet, she developed micro-finance projects in Indonesia. In 1994, when Ann was diagnosed with ovarian and uterine cancer, she moved back to Hawaii to live near her widowed mother. After she died there at the age of 52, Barack and his sister, Maya, spread their mother’s ashes in the Pacific Ocean.

According to the word of President Obama, his mother remains the greatest influence in his life; “The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: barackobama; barf; barrysoetoro; bho2009; bho44; dunham; indonesia; kenya; obama; obamafamily; socialism; triplebarf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Narcissus?

Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.

Dr. Vaknin States “I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama’s speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi “religious” impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects.”

Barack Obama is a narcissist.

Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes “Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.” Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama’s language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People’s Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don’t know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.

“Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations,” says Vaknin. “Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995”.

One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.

If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The “present” vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him. Obama’s election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.

The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.

Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama’s lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.

A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power.

A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self serving and selfish.

Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.

Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple. The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.

The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites.

The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960’s.

Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.

It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.

Hal Kushner, MD FACS

Daytona Beach, FL 32118


21 posted on 02/28/2009 9:01:02 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well this proves he was born in Hawaii!

or not

22 posted on 02/28/2009 9:06:06 PM PST by SERE_DOC (Today's politicians, living proof why we have and need a second amendment to the constitution.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If she was the dominant person in his life, why didn’t he title the book “Dreams of my Mother?”


23 posted on 02/28/2009 9:14:28 PM PST by joelt
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To: SERE_DOC
"pathological narcissism"

Very dangerous.

Very, very dangerous.

24 posted on 02/28/2009 9:15:07 PM PST by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Most dysfunctional President ever. You would think the public would have learned from the experience with Clinton,but noooooo. Narcissistic Personality Disorder on steroids.
25 posted on 02/28/2009 9:20:13 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: BunnySlippers

The world has gone mad.


26 posted on 02/28/2009 9:27:09 PM PST by Mengerian
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To: stubernx98

Absolutely fantastic and helpful comments! Also, although neither my father nor husband were narciscists, nor abusers, they were both abandonded by their fathers, and were very messed up. BHO was abandoned by both father and mother. Be afraid....be very afraid.


27 posted on 02/28/2009 9:30:37 PM PST by linton59 (. bitter,typical,gun-toting,Bible thumping, indigenous, disinfranchised................)
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To: stubernx98

Interesting you posted that. I concluded way back upon first seeing Obama that he likely has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Not merely that he is “narcissistic,” which a normal person may be at times under certain circumstances, but that he truly meets the Criteria for a Psychiatric Disorder, and therefore is incapable of perceiving reality beyond his own ego-needs.

NPD’s are extremely personable and charming, they must cultivate the ability to manipulate others very early in life, to cover their narcissism, otherwise no one would put up with them. They appear to care about you, but they always have a secret agenda, they are extremely clever, because they are internally driven, compelled without rational choice, to do anything to gratify their own grandiose ideas of self.


28 posted on 02/28/2009 9:32:43 PM PST by baa39
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems to me this does not correlate with some others bios I’ve seen.
For example, didn’t mother & son spend time in WA state at some point in a small apartment?
Will have to check out some things.


29 posted on 02/28/2009 9:33:13 PM PST by Bhoy
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To: mojitojoe

There is nothing new...which isn’t surprising. But they will keep repeating most of it as much as possible. At some point...one of the dots will suddenly not connect to the natural next part of the story...because we are going to find out bits that aren’t part of the “legend”. The birth certificate would readily identify his birthdate....which a number of people are now believing that its in the April/May timeframe....not August...which would mean that Stanley Ann was preg before they came to Hawaii.

The curious thing is that there are vast numbers of writers going out to write or rewrite the Obama life story. You’d think...like Kennedy or FDR or Jimmy Carter...that they’d go and find all the pieces and build around them....but you don’t see this.


30 posted on 02/28/2009 9:34:00 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now that I’ve wiped the puke off my keyboard;

I’d like to state that Stanley Ann Dunham should have been much more careful to not spread her legs so wide!

??Now, was it Barack Sr., or Franklin Douglas, that indulged in her loins??


31 posted on 02/28/2009 9:37:04 PM PST by aShepard (Maybe 12/6 is the time to launch a constitutional amendment that lays out POTUS requirements!)
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To: aShepard

Sorry, Franklin Davis!


32 posted on 02/28/2009 9:37:42 PM PST by aShepard (Maybe 12/6 is the time to launch a constitutional amendment that lays out POTUS requirements!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Touching. And nowhere in the article will you find a mention of either Stanleys’ or Obama Sr’s love affair with Communism. Didn’t widdle Stanley Ann meet Obama Sr at Russian language classes in ugly capitalist Hawaiian paradise? How romantic. There were still gulags in Siberia then, and kulak enemies dying there.


33 posted on 02/28/2009 9:47:01 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

so this is how we ended up with a raciallly resentful narcissist abandoned by both parents who wishes to fix the world to compensate for the world he was born into already broken given his wacked out parents

oh great


34 posted on 02/28/2009 9:51:23 PM PST by wardaddy (I feel like a Boer but this time white northern liberals are playing the English)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

See Colony14 Timeline:
http://www.colony14.net/id41.html

Looks a little different.


35 posted on 02/28/2009 10:10:09 PM PST by Bhoy
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To: pepsionice

One part of the article continues the myth as part of the actual story. Ruth Armour Dunham did NOT commit suicide, she died in 1926 of ptomaine poisoning during the night. Ralph and Stanley were raised by their maternal grandparents until their father Ralph remarried in 1930. Two girls were born from his second marriage. Stanley Armour Dunham did NOT get kicked out of school for punching the principal’s nose, he didn’t have the required credits to graduate and had to return to school the following year.
Also the “official story” says Ann met Obama Sr in a beginning Russian language class, but to this time not a single fellow classmate from that class has stepped forward, nor has the tacher been identified. One student who took the class a few years after 1960 was interviewed and said the teacher would have been either Ella Lury Embree Wiswell(died in 2005) or Isabella Tripianky. Isabella is a virtual ghost only mentioned in a blog and in an excerpt of a book which Michael Patrick Leahy is writing about Jr.
Ann and Jr lived in WA state from August 1961 until sometime in either late 1962 or early 1963, and this is rarely mentioned. When she enrolled at UW in August 1961, she gave the address of the apartment she lived at on Capitol Hill and she is listed in the 1961 Polk’s Seattle City Directory as: Obama Mrs Anna student


36 posted on 02/28/2009 10:10:10 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: exist

He was too attached to the pedophile, pornographer communist Frank Marshall Davis.


37 posted on 02/28/2009 10:49:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: classified

Now let me get this straight! His mother is the dominant person in Obama’s life, even though it was his grandmother who actually raised him and his father managed to visit Obama once during his lifetime which promted Obama to write a book about his father’s influence, but he says it is his mother who is the dominant one in his life. Well I can see that. Yes that would make sense, right?
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I’m with you. WTF and why was this old BS article posted here? It’s old news, it makes no sense and is sooooooooooo last year.


38 posted on 02/28/2009 10:55:45 PM PST by mojitojoe (None are more hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: armymarinemom

Exactly. Am I wrong or has this latest rendition of Obama’s life been somewhat softened?


39 posted on 02/28/2009 10:59:26 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: F15Eagle
The Obamabots are trying to justify in their own minds how correct they were to vote for the undocumented Kenyan.

By Jupiter, I think you're right. These have a lot of emotional baggage invested in this guy. They can't bring themselves to admit -- or even entertain the thought -- that maybe they had been played for a fool.

40 posted on 02/28/2009 11:06:30 PM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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