Single Mother Sob Story

August 26, 2008 by TXPoet  
Filed under News and Opinion

 

THE TIMELINE:

 

  • Stanley Ann Dunham married Barack Hussein Obama Sr. on February 2, 1961 in Maui, Hawaii.
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  • Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961.
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  • Barack Hussein Obama Sr. departs for Harvard in 1963.
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  • Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann divorced in Honolulu, HI Jan 1964.

     

    Barack was 2 years and 5 months old.
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  • Dunham married, Lolo Soetoro (ca. 1936-1987) in 1966

     

    Barack was about 5.
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  • They moved to Jakarta, Indonesia in 1967.

     

    Barack was about 6.
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  • Soetoro and Dunham had a daughter, Maya Kassandra Soetoro, on August 15, 1970
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  • In 1971, at the age of 10, Barack was sent back to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents.
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  • Ann Dunham left Soetoro in 1972. She returned to Hawaii.

     

    Barack was about 11.
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  • Barack attended the elite Punahou Academy. Tuition for the 2007-2008 school year for Grades K-12 is $15,725. Dunham returned to Indonesia for field work in 1977 with Maya, Barack was left again with his grandparents. Barack’s mother and Soetoro saw each other when she returned to Indonesia. What if any monetary support Dunham received for child care is unknown. They divorced in 1980.

     

    Barack was about 19.

 

By some simple math Obama was raised by a single mother (and supported by her parents) for a period of between 24 to 35 months. She also went to graduate school. Technically, for the period from 1972 to the final divorce in 1980 she was married and did not qualify as a single mother.

Much of Obama’s biography information is sketchy and the truth seems to be elusive, but I guess any sob story to ensnare the weak-minded will work if it gets him elected.

 

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13 Responses to “Single Mother Sob Story”
  1. Jenn Sierra Jenn Sierra says:

    I think Barack and Michelle spent entirely too much time mesmerized by the Olympic coverage while they were on their Hawaian vacation. Devil’s Advocate noted yesterday that Obama had come to the conclusion that the Chinese infrastructure was, in his opinion, better than the United States’, even though they have not yet managed to figure out how to feed their population (never mind the fact that in China, one of the Obamas’ daughters would be illegal).

    Now, it seems Barack has become enamored with all of the glowing coverage of Michael Phelps and his mother, who really was a single parent.

  2. Dale says:

    It’s not like anybody’s making a big deal out of that, anybody besides you, that is. But I guess you so-called conservatives have to scrape the barrel these days to try to find anything worse than your own leadership.

    As for Jean Sierra’s remarks, China has no problem feeding its people http://time.blogs.com/global_health/2006/08/no_longer_starv.html. China’s one child policy is irrelevant to the issue at hand, but suffice to say that it isn’t illegal to have more than one child, it’s just costly sometimes because of fines, but it isn’t uniformly enforced throughout China.

  3. cv says:

    The fact that the Obama’s stretch the truth a bit is not news.

  4. rachel says:

    Isn’t there some discrepancy over his place of birth? Or at least his real citizenship, if he was adopted in Indonesia.

  5. Indythinker says:

    A few corrections. His name was Barack Hussein Obama until Barack Hussein Obama II was born. Only then did he become Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.

    Barack Hussein Obama was validly married to another woman when he and Stanley Ann Dunham were married. The other woman, Kezia Obama, was then living in Kenya. The Obamas were never divorced. Kezia Obama currently lives in Bracknell, UK.

    Under American law, a bigamous marriage is void. Thus, the marriage of Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Dunham was automatically void. They were never married. Thus, for the short time that Barack Hussein Obama II lived with his biological father, it is correct that he was raised by a single mother. It would also be technically correct to say he was being raised by his single mother and his married father.

    The divorce of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham was invalid, since their marriage was void.

  6. forthardknox Jenn Sierra says:

    Nice try, Indy, but arguing semantics really isn’t going to change the truth in this situation.

  7. TXPoet TXPoet says:

    Obama’s biography is on purpose vague and distorted. He and David Axelrod have polished it to appeal to middle America. Obama is out of touch with Americans because he thinks he “suffered”. He grew up about as deprived as Ted Kennedy. He and his wife have struggled about as much as Nancy Pelosi. When Michelle compares her “suffering” to that of a service wife with a deployed husband that is disingenuous. When she says Barack understands a normal American’s dreams she is lying or deluded by the “One”. When she intimates that the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Rights Movements were a result of the Democratic Party, she is lying outright and trying once again to rewrite history. If you choose to believe her lies then may God have mercy on you because the Marxist Rulers who would be in charge if Obama gets his dream, will not!

  8. Katie says:

    I heard that they eloped to Kenya.

    Technically she was a single mother, but not on welfare, not living in the projects. BHO had a privileged upbringing for a black kid.

  9. Gribbit says:

    Married Feb 2, 1961, Barack born August 4, 1961… sounds like a shotgun wedding to me.

  10. feline49 says:

    bless your heart!

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