A Picture Book of the First Black President: Barack Obama
Who is this man Barack and where did he come from? A picture is worth a thousand words!
WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
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MOTHER and SON
FATHER and SON
Barack Obama Sr., a native of Kenya , met his future wife while they were students at the University of Hawaii . In 1963, he essentially abandoned his family to continue his studies at Harvard.
Grandparents and Mom THE DUNHAMS: precocious, self-assured At their home in Jakarta , Ann Dunham poses in this undated photo with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, their daughter, Maya, and Barack Obama. Mom, Sister and Barack
WHAT ARE GRANDPARENTS?
Barack Obama with his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham during a 1982 visit to New York , where Obama was attending Columbia . (Courtesy of The Obama Family)
Barack Obama walks with his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama at his father’s house in NyongomaKogelo village, western Kenya , in Aug. 2006. (AP file)
In this Obama Family photo ares: (bottom row, from left) half-sister Auma, her mother Kezia Obama, Obama’s step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama and unknown; (top row, from left) unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Abongo (Roy) Obama, and three unknowns. (Courtesy of the Obama Family) FATHER Barack Obama as a toddler.
Barack walks along Waikiki Beach shortly before he and his mother moved from Hawaii to Indonesia to live with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in 1967. Barack poses with his mother, Ann, half
Barack Obama hugs his younger half sister Maya at his high school graduation Barack Obama shakes hands during his graduation ceremony from Punahou School in 1979. While in his early teens, Obama chose to stay at the school and live with his grandparents after his mother decided to move back to Jakarta , Indonesia. . At his high school graduation, Barack Obama gets a hug from his grandmother Madelyn as his grandfather Stanley beams. His maternal grandparents raised Obama in Hawaii while his mother was living in Indonesia
The wedding day of Barack Obama Jr. and Michelle LaVaughn Robinson…… (Courtesy of the Obama Family)
Barack and first born
THE FAMILY
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Leland Milton Goldblatt
Obama, he speaks like Hitler
I have this recurring nightmare of Farrakhan or Wright spending the night at the White House in the Lincoln bedroom. Or Barack Hussein Obama having a luncheon on the lawns with Hamas representatives, Ayers, Meeks and company. Lord help us. This life-long will also be pulling the lever for John McCain, a man who is actually proud of his country.
We are judged by the company we keep.
I have a very good picture of Barack Hussein Obama’s kind of change he wants to make. I can’t beleive that the Democrat party could want this Obama instead of Hillary. I would never vote for Obama not because he’s black but because of all the anti-American friends he has.
Once again the DNC has come up with an inadequate candidate, Barack Hussein Obama is a empty suit and I don’t believe a word he says.
I am definately voting for John McCain. I like him alot so it is an easy move. He loves this country and went through hell during the POW days.
I am one of them Sc.D. a son of holocaust survivor who witnessed results of 1930’s appeasement, I saw what my mother had to live through when she was in the concentration camps. She saw what is like when you cannot defend yourself from the Nazi tyranny, she saw her family burn in the ovens of Auschwitz and Birkenau, she witnessed the les affaires of the comatose Europeans Jewry while their fellow Jews were being shipped to their death camps, and the silence of the conciliators, she bore the numbers of her arms so we will never relent in our pursuit of freedom. Today I see in Barack Obama, he speaks like Hitler and hardly set down and argue like a human being, he bring an old memories that invokes the fears of Hitler days, he promised everything under the sun and that worries me the most. Hitler promised the German people everything and only destruction came about.
Shalom,
— Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. ®
Distinguished Professor
http://drgoldblatt.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/miltongoldblatt
nativenotes
Well Professor that was a mouthful. I am confused by your reasoning. I see you stress Barack’s middle name in fact I think it is you who likes to hang on to fear mongering. You use his middle name to invoke fear and a misunderstanding about who he is, because you know Americans will cling to the name Hussein and think of Saddam. It is no different than those who call him Osama, typical of the fear mongering that media pundits utilize.
If you like Clinton and think that she was the more competent than how could you switch to McCain. Even Clinton said that the differences between she and Barack are small in comparison to John McCain.
You mention john McCain’s service, and no one is denying that McCain is a patriotic gentleman, that he fought hard for this country but does that mean that he will be a good fit for President. McCain wants to give you 4 more years of George Bush and his policies. McCain has no idea how to help our economy, all he wants to do is stay in Iraq for 100 more years. If that is the type of America that you want then cast your vote my friend.
Even your comparison to Hitler, I am just shocked as a descendant of people who have been oppressed that you spew such venom at Barack Obama. You mention him being black, for what, I did not know that you were white. You felt the need to qualify because possibly that does play a part in your decision. I am saddened by this.
You speak of the company you keep, once again did John McCain not associate with spiritual advisors who call the catholic church “the great whore”. Hmm, do you remember how people would not associate with or do business with people because they had Jewish friends, because they were part Jewish. How soon we forget, I am baffled by your comments. But once again this is what the internet is for, we have an open exchange of ideas.
I appreciate your story about your mother but I do not see the correlation between Hitler and Obama. In fact Barack does not promise Americans the world, he actually talks about people like you and me becoming involved in the system so that we can help create the change that we would like to see.
V. Godfrey
Beautifully said, Nativenotes. Thank you for your thoughtful response to a very close-minded gentleman. Well done, my friend. Obama is not perfect, nor am I, but he gives me reason to hope. I will gladly vote for him.
Shocked as Hell
Picture book of the first black president? Isn’t this just a bit much. First the presidential seal that wasn’t a presidential seal and now we have the first black president when the people of this great land have not even spoken. Maybe you should wait on calling him the first black president until the people have spoken. I can’t believe the arrogance of the the leftist socialists.
Vish Abey
Don’t be Shocked as Hell. The first black president will be a reality in 12 days. The intelligent people of the United States will vote Barack Hussein Obama the 44th President, by a landslide. Amen!!!!!!!!!!
Dorothy Loades
I would be very interested to know where Dr. Goldblatt teaches and more importantly, from which university he obtained his PhD. Based on his incoherent ramblings, I can’t imagine either institution offers a rigorous academic curriculum.
changew.o.prejudice
i am of mixed nationalities. cherokee, black, and italian…. i am the YOUTH. i am a mother, a daughter, a friend, a sister, a women. to the individuals who said america wasnt ready for a change and to wait for the votes…the dye is cast. Maybe it is YOU who isnt ready for an african american to be president. BARACK OBAMA. 44TH PRESIDENT
SLEEP TIGHT MY FRIEND.
whatever
FORGET WHAT U HEAR!!OBAMA IS THE NEXT PRESIDENT. SO PROFESSOR TAKE THAT IN A PIPE AND SMOKE IT!!
Shannon652000
Well here we are people…Evolved at last. I am a white female and I’m 43 , raised in the south and i cannot tell you how thrilled I am to call Barack my president.
I do not usually speak out in any way to draw attention to myself, as all southern women are raised in this way… but while looking for pictures of our new president’s family I stumbled across this page and could not stop myself from commenting on the subject.
As a child I was taught not to engage with people of color because they are not like us.I love my parents and obeyed . As a teen I began to see this was wrong and all people are just people. As a young adult I dated a black man who was a wonderful,beautiful,intelligent gentleman and I was (blackballed) In my community as were my parents.
Now as a mother I teach my son to listen with your heart and your head to people because your eyes can deceive you. Never to judge someone by color or religion or gender . My hope is that more people of my generation have taught there children this as well and then maybe we can finally be truly and forever ONE NATION, CREATED EQUAL, under whatever GOD you choose to worship.
Pierre Rousseau
I have a different view of the world which questions the way civilized minds make meaning for 1) its blind alignment to biosphere destroying technological progress and 2) its even more blind acceptance of the rise of artificial intelligence. While I cried with joy along with many about the historic moment of Barack Obama’s election as President, for its human value, I do not agree with his precipitous approach to increasing American prosperity. I do give him the benefit of the doubt that the concept, “prosperity” is not necessarily material, or technological.
I hope Americans and the rest of the world, particularly China and India, can come to the same conclusion I have come; that we should seek our future in the scaling down of wealth. To counter technological singularity, I am working to develop an alternative approach to meaning-making, which I call, “human singularity.”
I am at the moment writing a critical commentary on President-elect Obama’s 4-Nov-08 Grant Park acceptance speech here:
http://www.humansingularity.net/politics/obamapresidency/obamaspeeches/commentary/20081104obamaspeechgrantparkcommentary.html
Conservative Sam
WOW! I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to see how a 1/3 of euro-Americans to evolve and set aside their racist inter-soul to elect a man of color. P.S. It did help to have a black man who was an “A” student running against two white “D” students.
b
well well well, i hear poeple talkin but not really sayin anything. all the talk about barack being black and the company he keeps or the poeple he know. please, if you go back into history there are a lot of people that were and still are freinds with the kkk and all the other stupid low lifes that do not like someone beacause of the color of their skin. now i know you know people who do not like a race for one thing or another also you know a few low lifes maybe someone in your family like that crackhead or slut or whatever that if you was running for president you would not want no one to know that you know that person. another thing. im trying to figure out how poeple can call mcain a hero and he was a p.o.w.? last time i check yuo have to do something special to be called a hero, all he did was fly a plane that crashed and got caught and gave up info about america. i dont want a president that can not protect me and or himself. by the way, for the record, 97% of all human life is mixed with somthing, we are not pure one way or the other, so understand one thing if you dont like someone because of their race take a close look in the mirror and you just might find yourself, somewhere else. Peace……