Bradley HankinsStanley Ann Dunham Obana Soetoro (November 29, 1942 - November 7, 1995), known as Ann Dunham and Stanley Ann Dunham, was an American anthropologist, left-wing social activist, and the mother of Senator Barack Obama. She was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. Her father (who gave his only child his name) 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 that 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.
Her family moved to Hawaii and Ann attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she studied anthropology. When Ann Dunham arrived in Hawaii, she was a full fledged radical leftist and practitioner of critical theory. She also began to engage in miscegenation (inter-racial relatio nships) as part of her attack on society. Susan Blake, one of her friends has stated she never dated “the crew-cut white boys,” She had a world view, even as a young girl. It was embracing the different, rather than that ethnocentric thing of shunning the different. That was where her mind took her. In Hawaii she met Barack Obama, Sr. from Kenya in her Russian language class. Barack Obama, Jr. was born August 4, 1961.
Barack Obama, Sr. left Ann and their son in 1963 to attend Harvard in Boston. Press reports claim Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. were divorced around this time; however, no evidence has yet been presented to show they were ever married. The senior Obama obtained a masters degree in economics at Harvard and returned to Kenya in 1965 where he obtained a position in the Kenyan government. He was killed in an automobile accident in 1982.
Two years later, when her son was five, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian oil manager and practicing Muslim whom she meet at the university. In 1967 they moved to Jakarta, Indonesia. While in Indonesia Ann got a job at the Am erican embassy teaching English.
Barack’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro was born in Indonesia. Ann, Obama and his sister Maya moved back to Hawaii. Ann Dunham soon returned toIndonesia with Maya but divorced Soetoro in the late 1970s.
Dunham traveled around the world, pursuing a career in rural development that took her to Ghana, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal andBangladesh. In 1986 Ann Dunham worked on a developmental project in Pakistan. Later that year Ann and her daughter traveled the Silk Road inChina. In 1992 she earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. Her dissertation, “Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds,” was 1067 pages long. Sh e worked for the Ford Foundation and promoted Microlending.
During Obama’s campaign for the 2008 presidential election he portrayed his mother as a conservative girl from Kansas; however in reality she was a radical leftist and cultural Marxist. She lived in the Seattle area; spending her teenage years in Seattle’s coffee shops with other young radical leftist. Obama claims his mother’s family were conservative Methodists or Baptists from Kansas. However his mother’s parents were members of a left-wing Unitarian church near Seattle. The church located in Bellevue, Washington was nicknamed “the little red church,” because of it’s communist leanings.
The school Ann attended, Mercer Island High School, was a hotbed of pro-Marxist radical teachers. John Stenhouse, board member, told the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party USA and this school has a number of Marxists on it’s staff. Two teachers at this school, Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman, both Frankfurt School style Marxists, taught a critical theory curriculum to students which include d; rejection of societal norms, attacks on Christianity, the traditional family, and assigned readings by Karl Ma rx. The hallway between Foube rt’s and Wichterman classrooms was sometimes called “anarchy ally.”
Dunham has been described by her friends as “fellow traveler” meaning a communist sympathizer.
In an interview, Barack Obama referred to his mother as “the dominant figure in my formative years… The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics.”
Before she died Ann Dunham wanted to adopt a mixed-race Korean baby father by a Black American stationed in South Korea. Ann Dunham died in Hawaii in 1995 of ovarian cancer and uterine cancer.
I recieved this in an e-mail. Recent discussions made we want to post this. As it was an e-mail, I’m not positive on the whole truth about this, but will research this and see what all is true and such, as many rumors about candidates are spread through e-mail.
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on Jul 14th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Very interesting read, but we should not hold Barack Obama accountable for his mother’s beliefs or actions. I hope that you already know from Bobo’s Files that I’m not an Obama supporter. But this doesn’t mean that I’m out for any bashing, either. We conservatives are better than the other parties, I hope.
on Jul 14th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
And I don’t, I just seen some people (like those on Bobo’s and others) who really didn’t know that much about his mother, and it does seem like they just are trying to hide her. But I agree, you shouldn’t be judged on what your parents are and what they did or do - but in some respects the apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree.
on Jul 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Taking the war to Pakistan is perhaps the most foolish thing America can do. Obama is not the first to suggest it, and we already have sufficient evidence of the potentially negative repercussions of such an action.
For example: On January 13, 2006, the United States launched a missile strike on the village of Damadola, Pakistan. Rather than kill the targeted Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s deputy leader, the strike instead slaughtered 17 locals. This only served to further weaken the Musharraf government and further destabilize the entire area. In a nuclear state like Pakistan, this was not only unfortunate, it was outright stupid. Pakistan has 160 million Arabs (better than half of the population of the entire Arab world). Pakistan also has the support of China and a nuclear arsenal.
I predict that America’s military action in the Middle East will enter the canons of history alongside Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Holocaust, in kind if not in degree. The Bush administration’s war on terror marks the age in which America has again crossed a line that many argue should never be crossed. Call it preemption, preventive war, the war on terror, or whatever you like; there is a sense that we have again unleashed a force that, like a boom-a-rang, at some point has to come back to us. The Bush administration argues that American military intervention in the Middle East is purely in self-defense. Others argue that it is pure aggression. The consensus is equally as torn over its impact on international terrorism. Is America truly deterring future terrorists with its actions? Or is it, in fact, aiding the recruitment of more terrorists?
The last thing the United States should do at this point and time is to violate yet another state’s sovereignty. Beyond being wrong, it just isn’t very smart. We all agree that slavery in this country was wrong; as was the decimation of the Native American populations. We all agree that the Holocaust and several other acts of genocide in the twentieth century were wrong. So when will we finally admit that American military intervention in the Middle East is wrong as well?
on Jul 19th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I agree that we should not take the war to Pakistan. Pakistan is one of our allies, but I will say this: If they begin to harbor terrorist and not take action against them to remove them from their country, and those particular terrorist attack the United States, I will support the United States to take action against the group, and that just might be going after them in another country.
About the war, I say this. We went to war because of the attacks on September 11, 2001. Osama Bin Laden claimed that he did it, and because of that, and I’m sure of other reasons too, we went to war with him and his terrorist organization - Al Qeada. This group was located in Afghanistan, we never went to war with Afghanistan, we went to war against terrorism, a.k.a Al Qeada. As the fight went on, other groups decided to go after the United States too.
Iraq, I believe was a military strategy. If we could go in and start a Democracy, and spread freedoms like we have here in the United States, it would spread. Iraq is in the middle of the Middle East - the main area were the terrorist are, and were the terrorist rule. If we showed the people a better place, and a better way to live, then people would wish to live the same way, and over time the Middle East would fix itself; but yes it would take a while. Iraq might of been unnecessary, but it was the strategy we took. There could of been better strategies, but this is the one we are dealing with now.
But I agree, going into Pakistan would be the wrong move. It is about time, in my opinion, to start ending this war. We have the power to do so, we have the technology, and we have the brains. The strategy is laid out, we just have to many people who don’t really understand the situation we are in if we just pull out now. We need to make sure we finish what we started, make sure the people we have affected are having better lives, and have better opportunities, we need to make sure any damage done is rebuilt, and that the governments that have replace those toppled down can stay on their own, and protect themselves.
on Aug 9th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Interesting…I’ve long wondering and even asked the questions over on the BobO about his mother.
It’s not part of my being against him, as much as I had flags start popping up when the press seemed to utterly suppress any mention of her.
on Aug 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Like I said, I got this in an e-mail, and the research that I did do seems to make this seem at least some what truth worthy.