Ann
This article is a must read regarding Obama's early life. It is overly romanticized as were his books. No doubt Malkin is familiar with this article.
nytimes.com.
I suggest printing the article annotating the names to understand who is whom.
One thing, I sense from the time sequence is that Ann Dunham made a mistake as a teanager in her decision to marry Barrack Obama, Senior of Kenya. (To her credit she did not abort Barrack Obama, the current candidate.)
Also notice, that all throughout the article--------Ann Dunham Obama is referred to as "Ms. Soetoro". Her second marriage to Soetoro lasted just 3 years----however she kept the Soetoro name throughout the rest of her life.
That's why I say print it and annotate------reading it is very confusing.
mj
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FIRST TWO PARAGRAPHS OF Janny Scott's article-------click link for full article.
A Free-Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama’s Path
March 14, 2008
By JANNY SCOTT
In the capsule version of the Barack Obama story, his mother is simply the white woman from Kansas. The phrase comes coupled alliteratively to its counterpart, the black father from Kenya. On the campaign trail, he has called her his “single mom.” But neither description begins to capture the unconventional life of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, the parent who most shaped Mr. Obama.
Kansas was merely a way station in her childhood, wheeling westward in the slipstream of her furniture-salesman father. In Hawaii, she married an African student at age 18. Then she married an Indonesian, moved to Jakarta, became an anthropologist, wrote an 800-page dissertation on peasant blacksmithing in Java, worked for the Ford Foundation, championed women’s work and helped bring microcredit to the world’s poor------------------see more. |
