Obama’s Young Mother Abroad

New York Times ^ | April 20, 2011 | JANNY SCOTT

[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.

[skeeter]

Barf.

[Darksheare]

Double barf, with chunks and stereo sound.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Oh, the humanity... !

[isthisnickcool]

I could not read the whole thing but I’m sure somewhere in the article it talked about the three wise men and how they brought Obama gold etc.....

[Second Amendment First]

LOL! Here you go: ...who believed her son in particular had the potential to be great; who raised him to be, as he has put it jokingly, a combination of Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Harry Belafonte; and then died at 52, never knowing who or what he would become.

[SF_Redux]

if I hadn’t seen the nude photo’s of her I would doubt she was ‘ a broad ‘

[imfrmdixie]

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

This was all coordinated, folks. Corsi’s book........now these stories?

[onyx]

Damage Control.........LOL.

VIEW STANLEY'S ANN'S *Milestones*

Stanley Ann Dunham at Borobudur in Indonesia, in the early 1970s.

"Says" In Hawaii with Stanley Ann
From the Obama Campaign

Obama campaign

"SAYS" = HAWAII TIME Barack Obama with his father at the Honolulu airport at Christmas in 1971

[DCBryan1]

Here...let me sum it up for you: She was a communist whore. There.

[dforest]

That title. Too funny.

[throwback]

Strange article to be printing now. The article seems to be a foundational, background piece for somebody who's been on the world's center stage going on 3 years now.

“If you want to grow into a human being,” Obama remembers her saying, “you’re going to need some values.”

Really? His mother said that? It sounds like a lab tech talking to a specimen. When did the term "values" come into vogue?

[miss marmelstein]

Holy cow! Are the adjectives flyin’ in this turgid piece or what? The writing style of The Times declines year after year.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

She looks a lot like Miss Gulch. With apologies to Miss Gulch, who did not personally whelp a menace to the community.

[Second Amendment First]

I believe those pictures were taken by Frank Marshall Davis, her commie lover. Don’t see his name in the article.

[Second Amendment First]

Whatever it takes. It’s about time the MSM started looking into who this guy is.

[SvenMagnussen]

Never forget ... Obama’s passport records had to be “cauterized” in the 2008 primaries by former CIA and Obama’s Intel Adviser John O’Brennan.

[miss marmelstein]

OK, I’m late to all the stories about Obama’s paternity. Can you please tell me who is the dead-ringer gentleman on the beach with Obama sitting on his back?

[Second Amendment First]

Succinctly stated.

[skeeter]

Definitely a nominee for 2011’s Bulwer-Lytton prize.

[onyx]

His grandfather! Stanley Ann’s *father*!

[RobinOfKingston]

Obama’s Young Mother Abroad

Actually, referring to her that way kinda gives broads a bad name.

[massgopguy]

No kidding. That’s the Dad.

[ilovesarah2012]

Who’s the white dude?

[TigerClaws]

Obama’s book tells a story of the step father going to visit with some Americans. Obama’s mother said, “Those are NOT my people!”

The book also has Obama admitting he attended a Muslim school, something later “debunked” by Obama defenders.

[married21]

I’m guessing Grandpa Dunham.

[digger48]

Boy! She was one butt-ugly little commie!

[miss marmelstein]

Yes!

[US_MilitaryRules]

The whores father.

[prof.h.mandingo]

Agreed. But I managed to read most of the article. It was useful in further strengthening the idea of how much of Bambi was formed in Indonesia. The cold attitude etc. The article was good in that respect. It just helps prove he really is not American in his inner soul. There is much our enemy can supply us if we know how to use the info.

[aruanan]

Getting her son ready for the job he would do on the U.S. economy.

[US_MilitaryRules]

You wanna see butt ugly, look at her nudes.

[onyx]

His grandfather! Stanley Ann’s *father*!

[Buckeye McFrog]

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

[aruanan]

I notice their timeline has her marrying Obama before Barry’s conception.

[mojitojoe]

She looks like the mean witch in the Wizard of Oz.

[mojito]

0’s mother may have been a teen-aged commie whore.

But she has nothing on the NYT when it comes to being a whore for the 0 WH.

[lwd]

Last photo caption "SAYS" = HAWAII TIME Barack Obama with his father at the Honolulu airport at Christmas in 1971

Is that 0bama Sr. or Soetoro?

[Prov3456]

re: last photo

A) The date must be wrong because Barack Obama wasn't born in 1971. No matter WHERE he was born, it wasn't in 1971. And

B) This photo cannot have been taken of him with his father in Hawaii because, if I remember correctly, he was about 2 years old when his father died. The boy is this photo is obviously much older than 2. If the man is his father and if the airport is Hawaii, then the photo has been photo-shopped and fabricated.

Just saying....

[aruanan]

Last photo caption "SAYS" = HAWAII TIME Barack Obama with his father at the Honolulu airport at Christmas in 1971

Is that 0bama Sr. or Soetoro?

Obama, Sr. That was the only time Barry would have been able to remember meeting him.

[digger48]

maybe I'm late to the game, but that baby she's holding sure looks like the one the Obamaphiles claim to be Baby Barry.

[maggief]

HURL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IdOKUk7o9I

Janny Scott discussing her book, A SINGULAR WOMAN: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/01/us/the-president-under-fire-the-media-a-media-race-enters-waters-still-uncharted.html

THE PRESIDENT UNDER FIRE: THE MEDIA; A Media Race Enters Waters Still Uncharted
By JANNY SCOTT
Published: February 01, 1998

[onyx]

Right, Obama Senior.

[Lancey Howard]

You remember incorrectly.
Obama Sr. died in 1982.

[onyx]

He was born [somewhere] in 1961.

[TheOldLady]

From sea to shining sea
FReepers love Free Republic

Give what you can afford

Or sign up to donate monthly
and a sponsoring FReeper will donate $10

Urgent: Save Lazamataz! Donate today

[stayathomemom]

The pirate costume is apropos.

[onyx]

Thanks, maggie!

We need LucyT and STARWISE, the experts, here to answer questions!