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American resident (and future American president) Barack Obama, age 6, with his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in Hawaii — where Barack was born; she is the subject of a New York Times Magazine profile: To describe Dunham as a white woman from Kansas turns out to be about as illuminating as describing her son as a politician who likes golf. Intentionally or not, the label obscures an extraordinary story — of a girl with a boy’s name who grew up in the years before the women’s movement, the pill and the antiwar movement; who married an African at a time when nearly two dozen states still had laws against interracial marriage; who, at 24, moved to Jakarta with her son in the waning days of an anticommunist bloodbath in which hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were slaughtered; who lived more than half her adult life in a place barely known to most Americans, in the country with the largest Muslim population in the world; who spent years working in villages where a lone Western woman was a rarity; who immersed herself in the study of blacksmithing, a craft long practiced exclusively by men; who, as a working and mostly single mother, brought up two biracial children; who believed her son in particular had the potential to be great; who raised him to be, as he has put it jokingly, a combination of Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Harry Belafonte; and then died at 52, never knowing who or what he would become. (Photo via friends and family of Stanley Ann Dunham / The New York Times)
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American resident (and future American president) Barack Obama, age 6, with his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in Hawaii — where Barack was born; she is the subject of a New York Times Magazine profile:

To describe Dunham as a white woman from Kansas turns out to be about as illuminating as describing her son as a politician who likes golf. Intentionally or not, the label obscures an extraordinary story — of a girl with a boy’s name who grew up in the years before the women’s movement, the pill and the antiwar movement; who married an African at a time when nearly two dozen states still had laws against interracial marriage; who, at 24, moved to Jakarta with her son in the waning days of an anticommunist bloodbath in which hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were slaughtered; who lived more than half her adult life in a place barely known to most Americans, in the country with the largest Muslim population in the world; who spent years working in villages where a lone Western woman was a rarity; who immersed herself in the study of blacksmithing, a craft long practiced exclusively by men; who, as a working and mostly single mother, brought up two biracial children; who believed her son in particular had the potential to be great; who raised him to be, as he has put it jokingly, a combination of Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Harry Belafonte; and then died at 52, never knowing who or what he would become.

(Photo via friends and family of Stanley Ann Dunham / The New York Times)

HANDEGG, ANYONE?   President Barack Obama practices passing a football with Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia in the Oval Office, March 7, 2011. Under Australian Football League rules, a player must hold the ball in front of them and punch it with a clenched fist in order to conduct a legal pass to another player.  “Well that just seems silly,” said President Obama.  “Tell me about it,” replied P.M. Gillard.  (Photo: Pete Souza / The White House)
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HANDEGG, ANYONE?   President Barack Obama practices passing a football with Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia in the Oval Office, March 7, 2011. Under Australian Football League rules, a player must hold the ball in front of them and punch it with a clenched fist in order to conduct a legal pass to another player.  “Well that just seems silly,” said President Obama.  “Tell me about it,” replied P.M. Gillard.  (Photo: Pete Souza / The White House)

Bringing about change, in terms of how the legislative process operates, in terms of the power that lobbyists have, the power that special interests have—that is a work in progress. It’s just not going to happen overnight. But I don’t regret, during the campaign, having said that we can change that process. We can make it more transparent… we can reduce the power of special interests… We can make sure that, as a White House, we are more open than previous White Houses…. I guess, on all these issues, my attitude is, if we’re making progress, step by step, inch by inch, day by day, that we are being true to the spirit of that campaign.
President BARACK OBAMA, on The Daily Show.
There’s a whole biiiiiig article in today’s New York Times about how, after a sometimes bitter battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now get along. Yeah, it’s called letting bygones be bygones; adults acting like grownups; etc.  I mean, what did the Times expect to find?  That Obama asked Clinton to lead the State Department because he secretly hated her guts, and vice-versa? What an annoying, piece of shit article to write.  And I wonder if they’ll do Biden next. (Photo: Feng Li / Getty Images via the New York Times)
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There’s a whole biiiiiig article in today’s New York Times about how, after a sometimes bitter battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now get along.

Yeah, it’s called letting bygones be bygones; adults acting like grownups; etc.  I mean, what did the Times expect to find?  That Obama asked Clinton to lead the State Department because he secretly hated her guts, and vice-versa?

What an annoying, piece of shit article to write.  And I wonder if they’ll do Biden next.

(Photo: Feng Li / Getty Images via the New York Times)

I thought that was really inappropriate. She’s gettin’ an award - why are you buttin’ in? …The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person, she’s gettin’ her award, what’s he doin’ up there? He’s a jackass.

BARACK OBAMA, tellin’ like it is about Kanye’s now infamous blitz on Taylor Swift’s MTV award acceptance speech, in pre-interview remarks that were allegedly off-the-record.

Heh.

(via TMZ.com via The Daily What)

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