Barack’s Mother
What an impressive woman Barack Obama’s mother — Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro — was, much more than just “the white woman from Kansas.” From today’s New York Times:
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.
She died at 53 from ovarian cancer, but what a difference she made in her short but intense life, a difference that may carry on in the values she instilled in her two children, one who just might become President.
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Obama uses white mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, to make himself more palatable to white Pennsylvania voters
I find the above comment offensive, including the blog that it links back to. I don’t see a single argument or reasonable point being made, just innuendo. But instead of hitting the delete key I’ll leave it here as a testament of how low people can go and the kind of politics we really need to get past.
In researching Ann Dunham I can see where Barack gets his vision and open mindedness. More Mothers like her would lead to more leaders like Obama. America, and the world, need this now. His special knowing obviously has roots in his diverse and unique upbringing. Congratulations Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro! May your sprit live on in your son and flourish.
Yes…what a remarkable woman, leaving her son to her parents to raise as she follows her own dreams of finishing her phd in 24 years…
what a fine example of motherhood.
Carolynne might benefit from getting the facts right. Barack chose to stay in Hawaii to finish high school there rather than go back to Indonesia again. They were apart from each other a relatively short amount of time.
The facts speak for themselves…there are few 10 year olds who choose to leave their mother and step father without due cause…. Interestingly Ann Dunham kept her daughter with her after her second relationship failed*. This daughter was with her when she died: something her son failed to do.
*Since Barach Obama sr had a wife and two children in Africa when there is doubt cast by the democratic presumptive nominee that his parents were ever married….
How about an analysis of the ideas of the candidate or candidates rather than a discussion wherein you resort to villification of a dead mother.