Posted on 11/22/2010 12:00:30 AM PST by RobinMasters
Contributing to the impression of shifting sands in his official biography, two newspaper articles from 1990 – apparently based on interviews with Barack Obama – reported that the future president left Hawaii for Indonesia when he was 2 years old, not 6 years old, as he relates in his autobiography.
On May 3, 1990, the Associated Press widely published a feature story on Obama highlighting him as the first African-American named as president of the Harvard Law review.
"Obama moved to Southeast Asia at age 2 when his parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian," the Associated Press reported. "Until the fifth grade, Obama attended Indonesian schools, where most of his friends were the sons of servants, street peddlers and farmers."
The Associated Press article was widely published throughout the United States in newspapers that typically picked up and reprinted AP stories.
Here is the screen capture of the AP report as published by the Chicago Daily Herald on May 3, 1990:
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Mark
Indonesia does NOT recognize dual citizenship.
Another theory has it that Stanley Ann, who hated religion, sent him back to her fellow traveler atheist parents and Frank Davis because young Barry was getting too caught up in learning the Koran and Islamic religion. He was indeed, as young boys tend to do at that age.
Eventually the idea will spread. I think it rings true.
I love a good question!
The exchange student Soetoro at El Camino High School -undated.
JACQUELINE CORSIN - CLASS OF 1963 -
The 'exchange student' appears to be the SAME SOETORO, El Camino High School, circa 1963?
Now, judging by the image above, presented as Lolo, Stanley Ann, Maya and zero...don't the adults appear to have AGED CONSIDERABLY? (Of course they do...Maya was born 1970-71 depending on which source you believe...)
Raises the question, just WHEN did Stanley Ann Dunham first arrive in Indonesia? And IF Soetoro was a Class of 1963 exchange student at El Camino, HOW did he end up in Hawaii...IF HE DID!
If the AP story is accurate, this report may be the first hairline fissure in the earthen water-retention embankment...
"I will never forget the first day he entered class and the teacher introduced him in front of the class," Onny Padma told AFP.
"I thought he was from Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province. He had curly hair, dark skin and was a fat boy. But the way he dressed was really American style," said Padma, who is now deputy secretary general of the Indonesian Motorcycle Association.
NOTHING ADDS UP! That 'family' image supposedly taken in Indonesia when Maya was a baby...she was born in 1970 or 1971...shows a slim, normal weight zero...he must have lost a lot of weight...
And what is he doing in Indonesia with his sister who was born in 1970-71, supposedly when he was in Hawaii in 1969 shown here with SCOTT INOUE?
Sure makes one wonder...he may have had a weight problem, but it's not evident until some years later:
Now, I have doubts if we are looking at the same person!
By today's US standard, sure.
In Indonesia 40 years ago that would have been one fat kid.
Not morbidly obese, but contrast his face with those of the other boys in the picture and you can see why classmates would have thought him fat.
Here we go - puzzle time. Did little Scott Inuoe go to kindergarten with zero in Hawaii? Did zero and Scott go to the same Menteng school in Indonesia? Is the adult Scott Inoue holding the photograph dated 1969 (signed by zero in the top right hand side)the same as the adult circled in the Indonesian image composite? And why would someone have added a 'fringe' to little Scott's hair in the image supposedly from Hawaii in 1969?
R U serious? You can find different jpgs of the photo on google. As you pass your mouse over the pictures they get larger. The more magnified the picture is and the better the resolution the more fringe you see. It's not a conspiracy.
I don't know what to make of your photos. My original and only comment is that what looks like a child of more or less normal weight to us today would have looked fat to Indonesians four decades ago. Whatever other shenanigans you see in the pictures, that kid in the family portrait wouldn't have appeared to be of normal weight to third world classmates. Even today, I'd probably conclude that the boy in that family portrait didn't get enough exercise.
LOL! Riddles went right over the top of your head, I see.
Thanks for the link. As someone once said- Curiouser and curiouser.
LOL! Quelle horreur, he was in the cafeteria. Quite obviously a man of the people.
I know you are only interested in whether he was FAT or not, but here’s one RIDDLE CLUE:
“...But the official Obama school timeline remains that he left Hawaii at age 6, in 1967, and did not return to Hawaii until in 1971, at 10 years old.
Even Inoue remains confused.
In concluding the interview, he asked, “If you ever figure it out, would you please let me know?”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=188801
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