Long-range love of Obama’s absent mother

The Times ^ | 11/23/2008 | Christine Finn in Honolulu and Sarah Baxter

[wideminded]

Sales will be Bris

. Ouch. I hope not.

[bruinbirdman]

So how long was she married to the Soetero dude?

Guess white chick perpetual grad students make good bucks in Asia.

yitbos

[BIGLOOK]

You got it right!

[wideminded]

His grandparents were probably communists or sympathetic at the very least.

Why else would grandpa take O to Frank Marshall Davis' home?

Because the grandparents and FMD were both caring for a half-black child.

[Mila]

Perhaps it’s a British term.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/jolie%20fell%20pregnant%20during%20changeling%20filming_1086489

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/10/21/25215_news.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-514170/Married-prison-psychologist-fell-pregnant-affair-mentally-ill-inmate.html

[Mila]

"Obama’s mama was a ho."

On what do you base that comment?

[Mila]

"And where is his white sister?"

I don't think that his sister, who is half Indonesian, qualifies as white.

[Lovebloggers]

Her son’s job, according to Dunham, was to write reports for a consultancy on social, economic and political conditions in the Third World. In those days Obama was a young radical. “HE CALLS IT ‘WORKING FOR THE ENEMY’ BECAUSE SOME OF THE REPORTS ARE WRITE FOR COMMERCIAL FIRMS THAT WANT TO INVEST IN THOSE COUNTRIES,” Dunham wrote. “He seems to be learning a lot about the realities of international finance and politics . . . that information will stand him in good stead for the future.”

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I really don’t think anything else needs to be said to that.

[Girlene]

Obama returned at the age of 10 to live in Hawaii with his grandparents but continued to spend Christmas and the summer holidays in Indonesia. He spent more time with his mother than it appeared, according to Dewey. “It was similar to being sent away to school,” she said.

At 14, he went to Punahou,a prestigious private school in Hawaii. His teenage growth spurt amazed his mother. “She was stunned. She went to pick him up at the airport and looked in the crowd for a child, and suddenly this figure loomed over her. I don’t think she ever got over it,” Dewey said.

Interesting. First time I'd read this.

[bvw]

The one-armed man clapped.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Fell pregnant" is a typical British expression: it's what everyone normally says, not particularly liberal. It does have the jarring sound of "fell ill" --- as if pregnancy were a disease --- but that's not necessarily the attitude of British folk who use this common phrase.

And no, that doesn't make Stanley Ann a "ho." She was in exactly the same position as Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol: fell in love, slept with her boyfriend, got pregnant, got married. It's not the right order in which to sschedule these events, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that evey single one of us has ancestors who did it exactly that way -- or did it ourselves.

A little irresponsible? Sure. Shocking? Hardly.

[Chief Engineer]

Aloha BIGLOOK, do you suppose we will have to learn Javanese in order to read it? LOL

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Thanks for explaining that. We have British friends who would always call their babies, toddlers, children all “stupid.” “How *stupid*!” We helped them to understand that while they were in the U.S., our backwards government might likely send CPS to take their children due to emotional abuse. Stupid to them I guess means something akin to silly or goofball.

Re: the topic of the mother....does anyone know if the photos taken of the lady (in her birthday suit at Christmastime), purported to be her, are actually her?

[Chief Engineer]

Ann and Lolo never lived together again after she returned to Hawaii in 1972. She filed for divorce in 1980 but a Freeper found the divorce records in the Hawaii court system. The divorce was never finalized until 1988, however Lolo died of a liver ailment in 1987. As far as we can figure out they married in 1966 before Lolo returned to Indonesia, recalled by the Indonesian government.

[PghBaldy]

That is ture. However, Stanley Ann was not ill or drugged up. A sad thing for a child nonetheless, but the photos of he and his grandparents say they loved him dearly.

[El Gato]

But a trove of private letters obtained by The Sunday Times highlights her devotion to her son and her struggle to make ends meet as an anthropologist in Indonesia.

Cue the violins, and pass me the thunder bucket.

A mother who was devoted to her son, would find a way to "make ends meet" in Hawaii, or have her son with her in Indonesia. Her mother and father, managed to put out the effort, and certainly would have helped her as necessary.

[El Gato]

grandparents every bit as much communists as his mother

A communist bank officer? Hmm, that's different.