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To: LindyBill who wrote (240099)	2/27/2008 2:18:33 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

I don't see yuppies like Barack and Michelle really being socialists, let alone radical socialists. I see them playing at socialism, the safe distant kind that assuages their guilt for their million dollar homes but doesn't interfere with their incomes. Like Marie Antoinette playing at being a shepherdess.

To: LindyBill who wrote (240099)	2/27/2008 3:03:30 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793964

Brief biography Barack Obama.Jr's Mother hubpages.com hubpages.com Continuing my research tonight I discovered an article about Stanley Anne Durham by Kim Chipman of bloomberg.com Who is she?: late mother of Barack Hussein Obama. This was the first solid biographical information I discovered. Now, according to Ms. Chipman, Ms Durham was a bright young lady born in Wichita, but grew up in Mercer Island, Washington. From what she explained, at that time, they had one of the best public educational systems in the country. Ms. Durham was a "heady" type and decided that she was an atheist. She went off to the University of Hawaii for college and it is there that she met and married Obama Sr. At that time inter-racial marriages were very uncommon. In fact, in some states, they were illegal. Apparently, the Durhams reluctantly accepted him, but his family refused to accept her! So, I have to admit that I began to really like her, because I'm a little bit of an eccentric myself. Unfortunately, Obama Sr. abandoned her and went to Harvard. However, she kept on. I'm not exactly sure, but apparently her parents were also in Hawaii to help. Nevertheless, she met another foreign student from Indonesia and married him. When his student visa was revoked, she returned to Jakarta with him and became involved in economic solutions to assist small entrepreneurs there at the Ford Foundation. So, she really was a lot more than is depicted on the news. She was a very intelligent woman and later returned to the University of Hawaii to do graduate work, something concerning "micro-banking." Later, "Dunham's work for the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan was followed by stints at People's Bank of Indonesia and Women's World Banking in New York. She also did consulting work for the World Bank and USAID." Apparently she was a very warm woman, who even considered adopting a refugee at the age of 40. Tragically, she was struck down at an early age by cancer. So, I must admit that she is definitely a woman that earns my respect. On the other hand, it has been my experience that eccentric women like me, for example, are not always popular here in the States. As one political commentator observed, Obama is far to the left of the Clintons, way left... Barack Obama's Multi-racial Family youtube.com