Posted on 09/29/2011 6:54:41 AM PDT by blueyon
AND - a while back one of the senior Daley’s come to DC from Chicagoland. Maybe he’s prying Jarrett out of her position and hoping to salvage the Donkeys, behind the curtains of course.
Obama’s Chicago connection is DEEP. Throughout his book, ‘Dreams From My Father’, there are snippets of information. Typically, however, nothing is in chronological order - ‘clues’ are scattered throughout. The following are what I’ve found in there that show just how deep - and important - that Chicago connection is:
*[page 123] - Barry is quoting his mother: “I was only sixteen then”...”I’d just been accepted to the University of Chicago—Gramps hadn’t told me yet that he wouldn’t let me go—and I was there (Chicago) for the summer, working as an au pair.”
OBSERVATIONS: Stanley Ann was 16, so this was the summer of 1959. She and her parents lived in Seattle (Mercer Island, WA). She would not graduate from high school for another year - yet she had already been accepted at Univ. of Chicago? Why would her parents have let her apply if they considered her too young to attend? For whom was she working as an au pair? How did those people know of her - a Seattle resident - in the first place? If her father considered her too young to attend college, why then would he permit her to live/work in Chicago that summer? Seems logical that she was working for friends of her parents’. Considering the distance of Chicago from Seattle, they would have been close enough friends to be trusted with their 16-year-old daughter’s welfare. And they would have been people of ‘ample’ income. Barry doesn’t identify the people, or anything about them. In his summation of the various places his grandparents/mother lived over the years, Chicago isn’t mentioned? But one can’t help but wonder if they did at some point...
* [page 144] (caps mine, for emphasis) On his 1986 arrival in Chicago to be an organizer, Barry recalls:
“I HAD BEEN TO CHICAGO ONCE BEFORE. It was during the summer after my father’s visit to Hawaii (so, it was 1972), before my eleventh birthday, when Toot (grandmother) had decided it was time I saw the mainland of the United States. Perhaps the two things were connected, her decision and my father’s visit - his presence once again disturbing the world she and Gramps had made for themselves, TRIGGERING IN HER A DESIRE TO RECLAIM ANTECEDENTS, HER OWN MEMORIES, AND PASS THEM ON TO HER GRANDCHILDREN.”
[this trip was grandmother, mother, Barry, & sister Maya; Gramps stayed in Hawaii]
“We traveled for over a month...” “We flew to Seattle, then went down the coast to California and Disneyland, east to the Grand Canyon, accross the Great Plains to Kansas city, then up to the Great Lakes before heading back west through Yellowstone Park. We took Greyhound buses...”
“WE WERE IN CHICAGO FOR THREE DAYS, in a motel in the South Loop.”
OBSERVATIONS:
Barry makes no mention of WHO they would have visited in Chicago. He had suggested his grandmother’s purpose in going to Chicago was to ...reclaim antecedents and memories to pass on to her grandchildren...BUT the who, what, and why he doesn’t disclose to the reader. Instead, he rambles on for half a page about two shrunken heads [”...little european faces...”] at the Field Museum.
In this 1986 recollection Barry writes of, he then goes on to how he [in 1986] remembered the visit and what he had seen and heard of the city of Chicago:
“I imagined Frank [Marshall Davis - Hawaii, from Chicago] in a baggy suit and wide lapels standing in front of the old Regal Theatre...” “The mailman I saw was Richard Wright, delivering mail before his first book sold...” Then Barry says [p.146]: “I MADE A CHAIN BETWEEN MY LIFE AND THE FACES I SAW, BORROWING OTHER PEOPLE’S MEMORIES. IN THIS WAS I TRIED TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE CITY, MAKE IT MY OWN.”
OBSERVATION: He as much as tells us he’s a serial liar with an invented life.
* [page 76] “GRAMPS HAD A NUMBER OF BLACK MALE FRIENDS, MOSTLY POKER AND BRIDGE PARTNERS, and before I got old enough not to care about hurting his feelings, I would let him drag me along to some of their games. THEY WERE OLD, NEATLY DRESSED MEN...” “...THE KIND OF MEN FOR WHOM EVERYTHING HAS ITS PLACE AND WHO FIGURE THEY’VE SEEN ENOUGH NOT TO HAVE TO WASTE A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT IT.” “Whenever they saw me they would give me a jovial slap on the back and ask how my mother was doing.” “...ONE...”WAS A POET NAMED FRANK.” “He had enjoyed some modest notoriety once, WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF RICHARD WRIGHT AND LANGSTON HUGHES DURING HIS YEARS IN CHICAGO...”
OBSERVATION: The available information about Stanley Armour Dunham is that he was an obnoxious, in-your-face, crude, loud, and offensive white man. It seems incongruous that a group of “old” black men would be acquainted with such a person - a generation-younger white man, his white daughter, and her white/black son. What would they have in common - other than Frank Marshall Davis, with whom Gramps spent much time drinking and composing dirty limericks as part of the training-up of the young child Barry? [p.77]
* [page 275] Barry has been in Chicago “organizing”, and has applied to various law schools. He sees “...a group of older men who had set out their lawn chairs on the sidewalk for a game of bid whist.” He watched them play. “They didn’t talk much, these men. They reminded me of the men Gramps used to play bridge with -”.
“I tried to remember the names of those men back in Hawaii, what they had done for a living, WONDERING WHAT RESIDUE OF THEMSELVES THEY’D LEFT IN ME. THEY HAD BEEN MYSTERIES TO ME THEN, THOSE OLD BLACK MEN; THAT MYSTERY WAS PART OF WHAT HAD BROUGHT ME TO CHICAGO. AND NOW THAT I WAS LEAVING CHICAGO, I WONDERED IF I UNDERSTOOD THEM ANY BETTER THAN BEFORE.”
OBSERVATION: WHOEVER those old black men in Hawaii were, they - along with Frank Marshall Davis - seem to be the reason, the keystone, to Barry locating himself to Chicago after graduating from Columbia. Their importance to him is quite implicit here. And nowhere in anything I’ve read and researched has anything Barry’s said indicated he had any “soul-guidance” about Chicago from his grandparents, or his mother. The above quote has such an aura of Barry considering his move to Chicago as “moving back home”. Those old men, along WITH Davis, must have had a vastly important influence on him.
* [page 277] Barry’s been pondering slavery, the “shackles of your [black] skin”, and “...white men...landed on Africa’s shores, bringing with them their guns and blind hunger, to drag away the conquered in chains. That first encounter had drawn the map of black life, recentered its universe, created the very idea of escape - AN IDEA THAT LIVED ON IN FRANK AND THOSE OTHER OLD BLACK MEN WHO HAD FOUND REFUGE IN HAWAII.”
OBSERVATION: In Chicago Frank Marshall Davis had been a friend of Paul Robeson - famous singer, and infamous Communist Party member, as well as friend/associate of Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law Vernon Jarrett. Others in the communist-sympathizing circle in Chicago included David Axelrod’s parents. Yes, THAT David Axelrod - Barry’s David Axelrod. Davis was married to a black woman [name completely unknown...nada, zip]; divorced, then married a white socialite. This was appx. late 1940’s, early 1950’s. Not only unheard of, but illegal in 20+ states. At the same time, the Federal heat was coming down on the communist nest in Chicago. Davis’ friends and associates suggested he join other US communists in finding refuge in Hawaii, which he did. Hawaii was not yet a state, so they might have considered themselves “expatriots” of a sort. One might safely suppose that Barrys’ card-playing old black men were among those who had fled to Hawaii.
All things considered, a lot points to it being more than a possibility that Barry’s grandparents lived in Chicago with their daughter for some period of time before landing in Seattle/Mercer Island; that their connections during that time included Davis, David Axelrod’s parents, Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law Vernon Jarrett, and those old card-playing black men - all of whom contributed to making Barry the dedicated communist he is today, and who are still guiding his every move toward his goal of destroying our country.
[Wow...sorry this is so long!]
Wow is right. ETL would like this.
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