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The Best
Backgrounder |
Beginning with the publication of his
memoir, Dreams from My Father, in 1995, Barack Obama has promoted
a myth of his early life, one that is familiar to every American who
pays attention to the political process. |
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Senior In Hawaii |
The first African student at the University of Hawai'i, Barack Hussein
Obama, reached Honolulu 11 months before Stanley Ann Dunham and her
parents got there from Seattle. He was on the first airlift of Kenyan
students brought to study at U.S. universities as part of a program
organized by Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya and funded primarily by
hundreds of American supporters.
Evidence has since surfaced that Senior arrived in Hawaii before the
airlift began. However, there is a lot of good stuff in this
report. |
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Obama in Hawaii: Learning the Reality of Power |
Obama's formative years in Indonesia taught him the ways of the world. |
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Obama's mother known here as "uncommon" |
For four years on Mercer Island, Stanley Ann Dunham impressed her
high-school classmates with a wickedly sharp wit. She was an
"intellectual rebel" with a fledgling beatnik sensibility that would
eventually take her around the globe. |
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Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro |
The mother of Senator Barack Obama Stanley Ann Dunham, also known as Ann
Dunham, was an American anthropologist and left-wing social activist.
She was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Stanley and Madelyn Dunham.
Her father was a furniture salesman in downtown Seattle, Washington, and
her mother worked for a bank. After a year living in Seattle, her family
moved to Mercer Island, Washington, in 1956 so 13-year old Ann could
attend the Mercer Island High School that had just opened. At the school
she was on the debate team and graduated in 1960. |
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How to Buy a Mansion You Can’t Afford |
There were lots of people involved in the purchase of the Obamas’ house,
and they would all be owed some kind of consideration for their help and
support. Obama’s favors from Rezko amount to $925,000, plus an
additional $14,000 for a fence, bringing the total cash value to just
one person to $939,000. |
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Soetoro Divorce Records |
Copies of Soetoro divorce paper documents. |
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The Making of a Presidential Candidate |
An Obama-friendly collection of articles about the Obamamessiah from the
Honolulu Advertiser. |
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| "Toot" |
The "typical white person" cited in Obama’s speech on race. The woman
who, though she loved him "as much as she loves anything in this world,"
once confessed "her fear of black men who passed by her on the street"
and who was capable of uttering "racial or ethnic stereotypes that made
me cringe." |
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