Obama Media

A Fictionalized Hawaii?

Steve Sailer continues his deconstruction of Drams of My Father with a look at Obama’s recounting of his half-brother “Mark.”

Obama more or less admits that his book’s portrait of Hawaii is a fictionalized projection of his own self-pity and resentment.

The Obama Mama From Mercer Island

The Tribune has a lengthy portrait of Obama’s deceased mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. She was, says the piece, “a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960.”

“She was not a standard-issue girl of her times. … She wasn’t part of the matched-sweater-set crowd,” said Wall, a classmate and retired philosophy teacher who used to make after-school runs to Seattle with Dunham to sit and talk — for hours and hours — in coffee shops.

“She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she’d read about and could argue,” said Maxine Box, who was Dunham’s best friend in high school. “She was always challenging and arguing and comparing. She was already thinking about things that the rest of us hadn’t.”…a vivid portrait of Barack Obama’s mother as a self-assured, iconoclastic young teen seemingly hell-bent to resist Eisenhower-era conformity.

The article also suggests that Obama “in his best-selling book, “Dreams From My Father” and in campaign speeches…glosses over Stanley Ann Dunham’s formative years, spent not on the Great Plains but more than 1,800 miles away on a small island in the Pacific Northwest.” Apparently, he seems to think that the Plains paint a prettier political picture than does Mercer Island.