Posted on 04/20/2011 8:30:51 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
The photograph showed the son, but my eye gravitated toward the mother. That first glimpse was surprising — the stout, pale-skinned woman in sturdy sandals, standing squarely a half-step ahead of the lithe, darker-skinned figure to her left. His elastic-band body bespoke discipline, even asceticism. Her form was well padded, territory ceded long ago to the pleasures of appetite and the forces of anatomical destiny. He had the studied casualness of a catalog model, in khakis, at home in the viewfinder. She met the camera head-on, dressed in hand-loomed textile dyed indigo, a silver earring half-hidden in the cascading curtain of her dark hair. She carried her chin a few degrees higher than most. His right hand rested on her shoulder, lightly. The photograph, taken on a Manhattan rooftop in August 1987 and e-mailed to me 20 years later, was a revelation and a puzzle. The man was Barack Obama at 26, the community organizer from Chicago on a visit to New York. The woman was Stanley Ann Dunham, his mother. It was impossible not to be struck by the similarities, and the dissimilarities, between them. It was impossible not to question the stereotype to which she had been expediently reduced: the white woman from Kansas.
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Good point.
Just "Kinda?" ;-)
Those acid trips and three-ways with Frank Marshall Davis influenced her, too.
Janny Scott .. you hardly “covered every square inch of Stanley Ann Dunham’s life” .. merely that which you were allowed to know.
You are exactly right. this has been discussed before when someone posted the story about the guy in Hawaii with a picture of himself and Obama when they were eight and the Honolulu Star published it and the story. The kid was not Obama, I swear.
The kid in the middle photograph on his grandad’s back in the surf is NOT Obama. He’s the same kid as in the Honolulu Star photo but it is not Obama. Different face (chunkier), different teeth, different and darker color. This is so wierd.
Well, that decides it.
Forget Palin, Trump, Bachmann, and all the rest.
I’M VOTING FOR OBAMA AS MANY TIMES AS I CAN!!!!
(yes, sarcasm)
She’s John Kerry in drag. Look at that chin.
Obama sees things in terms of a Third World socialist. His father was an African Marxist and his mother a leftist skank. Nothing in his background or experience - far left community organizer, 20 years with the hate-monger Pastor Wright, close friendship with terrorist Bill Ayers, shady real estate deal with Syrian (now jailed) swindler Tony Rezko, associations with Louis Farrakhan and black militants - makes him a real American in terms of values or world view. Obama spent 150 days in the U.S. Senate, about 120 of them campaigning. He spent a few years in the Illinois state legislature voting “present.” Never has America been so poorly led. It’s like the nation committed “suicide by stupidity”.
In skimming this horribly written article, I quickly saw that Stanley was nothing more than an ex-pat memsahib - complaining about nasty foreign servants. Stanley sounds a lot like the future Michelle.
ROTFL. And Dolby Surround Sound.
I was being “nice”.
Early in the last presidential campaign, in August, 2008, Bill Clinton was asked if he thought Obama was qualified to be president.
Clinton's rather odd, cryptic reply:
"The constitution sets qualification for the president. And then the people decide who they think would be the better president."
Bill Clinton made this reference to the Constitution shortly after America's latest fad, the "community organizer" from Chicago, popped up out of nowhere and stole his wife's destiny by winning, in rather sleazy fashion, the Democrat nomination for President.
It has been my opinion since that time that the Clintons know something, and that it was they who quite deliberately fanned the flames of controversy over Obama's birth. Remember, it was a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter, Philadelphia lawyer Philip Berg, who launched *the first* Obama eligibility lawsuit. That lawsuit was filed in August of 2008, shortly after Bill Clinton made the curious reference to the Constitution when asked if he thought Obama was qualified to be President. Coincidental timing? Sure it was.
The first few lines induced projectile vomiting.
This is written drivel.
Stanley and Stanley Ann needed some chin work.
LH--this post is one of the most succinct and powerful posts ever on Free Republic.
I am not kidding.
You put in a few sentences the entire case for why Obama should never have become President.
Well done.
” . . the white women from Kansas” This gives us a new view and understanding on the word “slut!”
I hadn’t!
I did notice, however, that the *Christian* played GOLF on Palm Sunday, instead of attending church!!
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