Posted on 04/20/2011 1:00:02 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Stanley Ann Dunham, better known as President Barack Obama's mother, passed away in 1995 before seeing her son become the most powerful man in the world.
In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, Dunham gets a long profile adapted from Janny Scott's forthcoming book, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother.
The article paints a portrait of a complex woman who traveled to Indonesia with her second husband, battled the customs while raising her son and new daughter, and eventually returned to Hawaii. As Scott writes, "To describe Dunham as a white woman from Kansas turns out to be about as illuminating as describing her son as a politician who likes golf."
The President described his mother as "single constant in my life."
Click here to learn 8 more fascinating facts about the President's mother >>>
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Obama Sr was already married when he knocked up a minor named Dunham.
I believe there would be both Indonesians and Americans at the embassy in Indonesia.
battled the customs? I had heard that Sotero wanted to be westernized and Stanley wanted to be a muslim subjugated woman.
Funny that Obama’s never mentioned it. Now look up how you go about giving up your US citizenship. You go to the Embassy in the country you are in...which would be Indonesia.
And what kind of a jerk names his daughter ‘Stanley’?
These people are weird all over
expecially given that daddy was still married and the USA doesn't recognize bigamy.
Something just doesn't ring right.
His birth certificate must have his real mother’s name : Maria Skiana
Well, of course.
However, embassy employees who do not hold US citizenship do not have jobs that above lower level duties.
If a US citizen were to renounce their citizenship while working at an embassy, they would get run off very quickly.
And such an action would have no impact on their children.
"The label [of white mother from Kansas] obscures an extraordinary story -- of a girl with a boy’s name who grew up in the years before the women’s movement, the pill and the antiwar movement; who married an African at a time when nearly two dozen states still had laws against interracial marriage; who, at 24, moved to Jakarta with her son in the waning days of an anticommunist bloodbath in which hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were slaughtered; who lived more than half her adult life in a place barely known to most Americans, in the country with the largest Muslim population in the world; who spent years working in villages where a lone Western woman was a rarity; who immersed herself in the study of blacksmithing, a craft long practiced exclusively by men; who, as a working and mostly single mother, brought up two biracial children; 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."
She was a total badass Obama learned to deal with racism in Indonesia She had a large domestic staff in her house She hated working at the U.S. Embassy She probably gave birth to Obama's half-sister without stethoscope, gloves, or gown She refused to conform to Indonesian society She may have disciplined her son by spanking him Obama remembers her strength but also wonders where he would have been without his grandparents So did she give birth in Kenya? Trump thinks so
“According to them fact number 4 she hated working in the US Embassy in Indonesia...”
Maybe so but she probably loved the job when it gave her timely “access” certain records.
First day of class was 15 days after the birth.
Maybe today, but not in 1961.
Her parents were communist sympathizers and as well as close Dunham friend and Barry mentor Frank Marshall Davis.
While back saw a piece about and Lil Timmy (TurboTax) Geirther’s Dad and S.A. Durham working together at some CIA front in Indonesia.
“That is sad.. this woman abandoned her mixed race child and left him with grandparents to raise. “
and she beat him for not doing his homework sent from Hawaii.
Why was homework sent from Hawaii?
Snopes says the nude photos are false so they must be real.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/dunham.asp
I didn’t know 0bama had a sister. Where the heck is she? And why is she never mentioned?
Cindie
Nothing new. She worked for USAID out of the Embassy teaching English. Translation, she was a CIA asset helping the Suharto coup.
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