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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: DCBryan1

Succinctly stated.


21 posted on 04/20/2011 8:57:05 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: miss marmelstein

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


22 posted on 04/20/2011 8:57:44 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: miss marmelstein

His grandfather! Stanley Ann’s *father*!


23 posted on 04/20/2011 8:58:34 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: Second Amendment First
Obama’s Young Mother Abroad

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

24 posted on 04/20/2011 8:58:35 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (An election is not a (national) suicide pact.)
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To: miss marmelstein

No kidding. That’s the Dad.


25 posted on 04/20/2011 8:59:14 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: onyx

Who’s the white dude?


26 posted on 04/20/2011 9:00:40 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: throwback

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.


27 posted on 04/20/2011 9:00:42 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: miss marmelstein

I’m guessing Grandpa Dunham.


28 posted on 04/20/2011 9:02:03 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: onyx

Boy! She was one butt-ugly little commie!


29 posted on 04/20/2011 9:02:03 AM PDT by digger48
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To: skeeter

Yes!


30 posted on 04/20/2011 9:02:20 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

The whores father.


31 posted on 04/20/2011 9:02:45 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Where is our military?)
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To: skeeter

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.


32 posted on 04/20/2011 9:03:07 AM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: Second Amendment First
Getting her son ready for the job he would do on the U.S. economy.


33 posted on 04/20/2011 9:04:05 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: digger48

You wanna see butt ugly, look at her nudes.


34 posted on 04/20/2011 9:04:29 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Where is our military?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

His grandfather! Stanley Ann’s *father*!


35 posted on 04/20/2011 9:05:24 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: Second Amendment First

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


36 posted on 04/20/2011 9:06:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Second Amendment First

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


37 posted on 04/20/2011 9:08:49 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: US_MilitaryRules

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


38 posted on 04/20/2011 9:08:57 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( 1400 years of existence & Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curry)
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To: Second Amendment First
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.

39 posted on 04/20/2011 9:08:57 AM PDT by mojito
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To: onyx
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?

40 posted on 04/20/2011 9:09:59 AM PDT by lwd
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