To: Chief Engineer
thanks, it must have taken hours to find again, good to have the link to the article as well.
SOURCE LINK
86 posted on
06/02/2009 7:40:21 PM PDT by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: Chief Engineer; Fred Nerks; Polarik; LucyT; STARWISE
Here's another shot of the same photo that ran with a story during the campaign:
Does this cross-country bus trip in the Summer (most likely when BHO would have been on Summer vacation) of either 1972 or 1973 jive with your timelines? This is from the Obama Timeline on Colony 14: Dunham leaves Lolo Soetoro in 1972 (possibly due to heavy drinking and womanizing) and returns briefly to Hawaii.
I was unaware of such a trip ... and wonder if there were any other sightings.
Obamas Arizona Ties
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Sahuarita resident Jon Payne, left, plays a friendly game of darts with his niece Ann Dunham and her son Barack Obama. The photo was taken in Overland Park, KS, in the early 1970s when Obama was 11 or 12 years old, Payne said. |
By Jaime Richardson | Green Valley News
Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:42 PM MDT
Barack Obamas great-uncle, Sahuarita resident Jon Payne, says the past few months have been a surreal experience for him and his family.
Sometimes its hard to believe this is all really happening, and I just have to snap myself back to reality.
Payne, 70, a retired urban planner originally from Wichita, Kan., has lived in Rancho Sahuarita with his wife, Sue, since 2004. His 86-year-old sister, Madeline Payne Dunham, is Obamas maternal grandmother, who helped raise him as a child.
Payne is just four years older than Obamas mother, Ann, and says the two were very close growing up.
She was a wonderful lady, and she would have been very proud of her son, he said.
Obama was 11 or 12 years old when he, his mother and half-sister took a bus trip across the country with their grandmother and stopped in Kansas to visit the family. This was the first time they met, says Payne, who described the young Obama as a bright young man who was very personable and outgoing.
Photos from this time show Jon, Ann and Barack smiling and laughing as they play a game of darts, the 2008 presidential candidates bright smile instantly recognizable in the snapshot taken more than 35 years ago.
Payne isnt too close with Obama, who grew up mainly in Hawaii and Indonesia. But his sister and her late husband took him in at the age of 10, raising him in their Honolulu home until his graduation from high school. Obama affectionately calls her toot, short for tutu, the Hawaiian word for grandparent.
Payne says Madeline now suffers from osteoporosis and other serious health problems. She underwent surgery for corneal implants a year ago, which is a big undertaking for someone whos 86, he said.
We think its because she wanted to be able to see the T.V. so she could see Barack.
Payne has spoken to the Democratic Club of the Santa Rita Area several times and has participated in rallies held in Tucson and Green Valley in support of his great-nephew, but insists hes no politician.
The family here in America has tried to keep a low profile and not say anything that would have a negative effect on Barack or his campaign. We all fully support him and wish him well.
But he says that their pride in Obamas accomplishments is combined with as serious concern for his safety.
Barack and his family are living a very high profile lifestyle, and were worried about all the crazies out there, he said, citing Tuesdays arrest of four men at the Democratic National Convention connected to an assassination plot.
In spite of the challenges that may lay ahead for the candidate, Payne hopes that Obama will win the election.
We just cant go on the way we have been, he said. I think hes the best option weve got for some real change in this country.
jrichardson@gvnews.com | 547-9726
87 posted on
06/05/2009 7:07:23 AM PDT by
BP2
(I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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