[BP2]

From Ann Dunham's perspective, I can imagine that she thought that sending young Barry back to live with her parents where he could attend American schools, while she stayed in Indonesia with her husband, job, and young daughter to be the best option all around.

Let me tell you about Stanley Ann, Bubby.

Obama’s mama was a self-centered & self-serving bitch — YES, that's the most delicate way to put it.

An Abortion would have caused her a lot less “hassle”, because it's quite obvious to anyone who's done the research on Ann and her relationship with Obama Jr that Ann had little if ANY Maternal Attachment to her first-born child. Here's the dedication from her dissertation:

Of course Obama Jr "seldom complained"; Ann was rarely around to hear any complaints back in Hawaii, as she was almost ALWAYS "in the field" in Indonesia & other countries to which she traveled.

Ann separated from Lolo in 1974.
And yet, BACK to Indonesia she went for nearly the rest of her pathetic life, until dying in 1995.

Nobody forced her.
She easily could have stayed in Hawaii, brought Maya to the Land of Opportunity, and gotten a job with her mother or at the University of Hawaii with her friend Alice — but Ann but CHOSE NOT to, as she felt neither the Motherly-drive nor Obligation to raise her First-Born Child herself.

WHO was it there at Obama's high school graduation, perhaps the most IMPORTANT event in Obama's life up to that point in 1979?

It was NOT his mama Ann. It was Obama's grandfather ... and grandmother.

WHO was it that visited him while he attended Columbia (New York) in the early 1980s?

Yep, the same people who were there at his high school graduation in Hawaii ...

[mojitojoe]

As usual, excellent post BP2, and you nailed it, once again. Well done.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

“Bubby” I like that :-)

Bottom line.

She did not send her son across town to live with a set of grandparents he had an emotional bond with. She sent him to another country when she had a new baby about 1 year old. Those grandparents were practically strangers.

She then appeared and disappeared throughout his life.

And yet, when she died she was wanting to adopt another child...

If she was anything other than self centered, Obama would have been at her bedside when she died. That speaks volumes. No matter what he says, he still harbors rage.

That was one screwed up family.

[Fred Nerks]

SOMETHING ABOUT ALICE

TEACHING AND EDITING S. DUNHAM.

Stanley Ann Dunham earned a BA in anthropology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and soon after moved with her husband, Lolo Soetoro, and her six-year old son, Barack Obama, from Honolulu to Soetoro’s home in Jakarta, Indonesia, where her daughter, Maya Soetoro, was born. From the 1970s through the 1980s, Ann Dunham conducted field research in the Yogyakarta area of Central Java, centering on a village known as Kajar. Her focus was on the nonagricultural enterprises of rural Indonesia, and particularly blacksmithing and other small metalworking industries. This research became the basis for her thousand-plus page PhD dissertation at the University of Hawai‘i, written under the supervision of anthropologist Alice Dewey.

ALICE AND STANLEY ANN TO GO KENYA

Dewey later traveled with Dunham to the same village in Kenya where Obama's father came from and — decades later — saw a video of Obama in the same village near a building that arranged micro loans.

FIVE YEARS IN PAKISTAN

Another US-based website www.freerepublic.com quoted Time Magazine on September 1, 2008, stating that Obama may have visited Pakistan again in the second half of 1980 and stayed there for a month with his mother who was an employee of the Ford Foundation and posted in Gujranwala as a microfinance consultant for an Asian Development Bank micro-credit finance project that ran from 1987 to 1992.

[butterdezillion]

How old was Madelyn when Obama was born?

[esquirette]

So how come he looks more like his grandfather than anyone else? Toot cannot be Mom. What am I missing here?

[Lady Jag]

Thanks for the pings!

This is getting curiouser and curiouser.

[GOPJ]

Thank God Obama had grandparents who loved him... sounds like a pretty lonely life in many ways.

[justiceseeker93]

It’s been suggested several times here on FR that your last photo, purportedly taken in NYC with O and his grandparents, is a fake.