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Obama’s Young Mother Abroad
New York Times ^ | April 20, 2011 | JANNY SCOTT

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anndunham; annsoetoro; barrysoetoro; birthcertificate; certifigate; communism; eligibility; fellowtravelers; grifters; indonesia; islam; lolosoetoro; marxism; obama; pakistan; progressives; socialism; soetoro; stanleyann; stanleyanndunham
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To: STARWISE; maggief

Exactly!


81 posted on 04/20/2011 10:09:44 AM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx

That kid in the beach photo looks like he’s about to take Bambi out. Lol.


82 posted on 04/20/2011 10:14:11 AM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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To: miss marmelstein

More here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2707800/posts


83 posted on 04/20/2011 10:14:13 AM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Second Amendment First

AW GEEZ! Here we go with another Left-Wing coordinated diversionery campaign of “in your face” gooey, gushing, adulation of their false Messiah in effort to bludgeon a perceived right-wing villainous assault on his integrity.

Watch the sleight of hand scene going on behind the focus in the forefront if it’s not too blurred.


84 posted on 04/20/2011 10:16:44 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: exit82

Thanks, but the original crafter of a very similar post was freeper T.L.Sink.
I usually give that freeper credit in my tagline for the above summation but forgot this time.


85 posted on 04/20/2011 10:17:47 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Second Amendment First
Indonesian schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s were inadequate; there were not enough of them, the government controlled the curriculum, teach­ers were poorly trained.

Sounds like schools in America today.

86 posted on 04/20/2011 10:21:30 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My dream thread: Mormon cop shoots Catholic Freeper's Pit Bull and takes his Macbook Pro.)
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To: onyx; STARWISE

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Reporting about Lewinsky scandal still grist for debate
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Saturday, December 26, 1998
Author: Janny Scott , New York Times

In the first frenzied weeks after the name Monica Lewinsky lurched into the news in January, it was clear that the news media had entered uncharted waters - a rip current where competition between old and new media was rewriting the rules of gathering and reporting news.

There were Matt Drudge, who first posted the story, pilfered from Newsweek, on his Internet tip sheet; the talk shows that gave it legs; the 24-hour cable TV news networks that rode it up the ratings; and the handful of respected newspapers that publicly stumbled in the scramble to keep up.

Looking back on the past 11 months, many people inside and outside journalism described the episode as a laboratory experiment for the postmodern media age - the moment when the diverse forces of the instant communication era converged for the first time on a major political scandal.

How members of the news media have performed - and how the public fared - is a subject of stark disagreement. After months of criticism, many working journalists now express a sense of near-vindication. Most of what was reported, they said in recent interviews, has turned out to be true.

Others, however, described the past 11 months as “a very dark chapter in the history of the American press,” as Geneva Overholser, a former ombudsman for The Washington Post, put it. After such shameful excesses, some said, it is an inadequate defense to point out that the stories were not wrong after all.

“There is this other task,” said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University. “The news media have to help us have the best conversation we can about what became a constitutional crisis. Looked at that way, the performance of our journalists can be seen as a kind of national tragedy.

“It was a tragedy because the media cooperated in the expansion of this story to a sort of partisan, divisive and directionless game,” Rosen said. “It also produced a level of public exhaustion that is now a serious defect. We don’t need the American public to be exhausted by impeachment at this hour.”

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The story may mark the moment at which the notion of a serious so-called disconnect between the public and the press became conventional wisdom. The press presumed to understand what was important, and what was not, in a way that many Americans came to resent.


87 posted on 04/20/2011 10:24:35 AM PDT by maggief
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To: library user

Dolby 7.1 digital surround sound, FEEL the thunder!


88 posted on 04/20/2011 10:28:07 AM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: digger48

If you look at the alleged Barry baby photo...he is a spittin’ image of Frank Davis. No DNA test required. Maybe a kind FRiend can post those two pictures together.


89 posted on 04/20/2011 10:31:35 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: DCBryan1

She was ugly too.


90 posted on 04/20/2011 10:33:48 AM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: miss marmelstein
That "dead ringer"

...plus a (conveniently deceased) black ho...

equals

Øbozo's (aka"Steve Dunham's") most likely hope of being a genuine NBC.

91 posted on 04/20/2011 10:35:58 AM PDT by TXnMA (America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
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To: miss marmelstein
That "dead ringer"

...plus a (conveniently deceased) black ho...

equals

Øbozo's (aka"Steve Dunham's") most likely hope of being a genuine NBC.

92 posted on 04/20/2011 10:36:13 AM PDT by TXnMA (America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
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To: Second Amendment First

Obama’s mommy speaking about Americans:

“They are not my people.”

Not her son’s either, it seems...


93 posted on 04/20/2011 10:48:10 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“the NY Times taking several hundred words to say that his mom was a fat slob...”

Look at the early pix. She was NOT a ‘fat slob’! She has a jaw line like Jay Leno.


94 posted on 04/20/2011 10:54:47 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (I have a liberal arts degree, do you want fries with that?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“the NY Times taking several hundred words to say that his mom was a fat slob...”

Look at the early pix. She was NOT a ‘fat slob’! She has a jaw line like Jay Leno.


95 posted on 04/20/2011 10:54:55 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (I have a liberal arts degree, do you want fries with that?)
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To: chooseascreennamepat

“Look at the early pix.”

LOL, like early pics are representative of teh entire person throughout their life.
Kirstie Ally was hot... in the early pics.


96 posted on 04/20/2011 11:04:25 AM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: DCBryan1
She was a communist whore.

So true.

97 posted on 04/20/2011 4:04:47 PM PDT by austingirl
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To: Raebie

That’s what I was going to say! What if that kid had actually thrown that razor-edged boomerang....


98 posted on 04/20/2011 5:24:03 PM PDT by Tenlein
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To: kiltie65

Notice that there are never babypictures of little Barack with his dad when the family was supposed to be together before Barack Sr. left for Harvard. This is really odd.


99 posted on 04/20/2011 6:34:14 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Lancey Howard

No problem, LH, at least you’re honest.


100 posted on 04/20/2011 6:37:46 PM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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