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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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....
HURL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IdOKUk7o9I
Janny Scott discussing her book, A SINGULAR WOMAN: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother
THE PRESIDENT UNDER FIRE: THE MEDIA; A Media Race Enters Waters Still Uncharted
By JANNY SCOTT
Published: February 01, 1998
Right, Obama Senior.
You remember incorrectly.
Obama Sr. died in 1982.
He was born [somewhere] in 1961.
The pirate costume is apropos.
Thanks, maggie!
We need LucyT and STARWISE, the experts, here to answer questions!
But why does his maternal grandfather look black? Or at least mixed blood? Or am I imagining things?
All the childhood photos (with the exception of a couple photoshopped with other children in Indonesia) show the same kid growing up in my opinion. Starting with the high school pictures, it looks like a different person to me.
LOL. Indeed!
This article must be in prep for the new book.
It will be interesting to read..I was wandering around SE Asia in the early 70’s also. Indonesia was a pretty back woods place then and there weren’t all that many expats there.
Trickling out tidbits of bad news before Corsi’s book?
This is the kind of stuff (positive/touchy-feely puff for the communists, negative/scandalous smears for the Republicans) the New York Times usually holds back until close to election day. They must have even better stuff in the pipeline.
LOL. You’re right!
Right! Damage control, by the lapdog press. FAIL.
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