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Given that The 2001 Honolulu Advertiser article pins down Fuddy as a member of a Subud group whose parent organization was/is headquartered in Chicago, I got curious about whether there may be a thread or two that runs from Honolulu Subud through to Chicago and ultimately has some connection with Obama.

I have not found anything shocking, but this page identifies a U.S.A Subud Chicago organization that receives its mail at what might be the loft apartment address of Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Margolin is the c/o name for the non-profit Subud organization that doesn't seem to claim any significant assets or received donations (at least not above $25k annually). Despite the org's lack of funds, there's nothing slummy about its (and/or Margolin's) address. I saw one article that listed an apartment in the building which is home to the Margolin/Subud NPO (1307 S. Wabash) at about $300,000.

Of course you will doubtless recognize U.I.C., where Margolin is a Prof., as that same institution which payrolls unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers who "just happened" to be a neighbor to the Obamas in Chicago.

While I don't have reason to assume Prof. Margolin has ever met Obama, he can be easily spotted around the web in various interviews, articles, and blog posts defending and extolling the virtues of all things socialist and all things Obama.

This is just another side note that will likely not prove to have any relevance to the Subud connections of Dunham-Soetoro or Fuddy or any potential ties that BHO himself may have to Subud. Nevertheless, I thought I should mention this much in case it rings a bell correlated to other research you folks may have done. You know, it's a small world, after all. :)

See also brown deer’s post #90.

Background info from another Subud member.

http://www.subud-sica.org/index.php?hkat=7&ukat=24

In May 1961, a year after receiving my B.A. in English, I was opened in Subud. That took place in Chicago. At the time I was also attending the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Hindu Fellowship near where I lived. Back at Yale Graduate School that fall and an isolated member, I began studying Indonesian and hanging around with “people who looked like Bapak.” It wasn’t until the fall of 1969 in Honolulu, with Mas Prio Hartono a recent houseguest, that I first tried the Muslim Ramadan Fast. It was challenging, to say the least, with world-class headaches appearing every day by three. But with Muslim students and professors at the East-West Center, where I was working, for companions, it was a dramatic experiment for me—one that I have since repeated 36 times.

My road to active interest in interreligious matters was less direct. As an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa and, for a year, as intercultural activities officer at the adjoining East-West Center, I was tapped by the Lutheran campus pastor to serve on the University’s interfaith council as a faculty member representing “Team Lutheran.” Then, as assistant director of the University’s experimental School of the Humanities, “New College,” I co-taught an interfaith freshman seminar called “Gods and Men.” By this time I had already been reading widely in the world’s great religions and could spout technical terminology and explain some of the main concepts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism as well as Judaism and Christianity. I also liked listening to Hindu and Christian classical music.