By John Ballard
Last night's White House Correspondents Dinner was a wonderful romp that left no one in politics untouched. Here is a link to the C-SPAN video for those who missed it. I expect when it goes into the video archive short clips will be embeddable, but until then this is available.
It opens with the president himself driving the last nails into the birther coffin.
Seth Meyers has the last half, starting at about 20 minutes. If he missed any targets I don't know what or who they were.
23:13 For those of you who don't know, the White House Correspondence' Association is an organization of journalists who cover both the White House and the President, though earlier Senator John Kyl told me that ninety percent of what they do is abortions.
It's fair to say that the 2012 campaign is now underway and this event, together with last week's publication of Janny Scott's A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama�s Mother is as well-orchestrated an opening as his first presidential campaign. Last week's NY Times review, replete with photos, is a taste. Look closely and find photos which credit "The Obama Presidential Campaign/AP."
The caption reads "PACIFIC RIM Barack Obama and his grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham in Hawaii."
And yes, there is a little icon of a magnifying glass if you want to make the photo bigger.
Ann Dunham, who jettisoned the name Stanley upon emerging from childhood, was just 17 years old in the fall of 1960 when she became pregnant with the child of a charismatic Kenyan named Barack Hussein Obama, a fellow student at the University of Hawaii who was more than six years her senior. She dropped out of school, married him and gave birth shortly before their union ended. In the aftermath, she met Lolo Soetoro, an amiable, easygoing, tennis-playing graduate student from the Indonesian island of Java. They married in 1964, after Ann�s divorce came through, but their early life together was upended by forces beyond their control. On Sept. 30, 1965, six Indonesian army generals and one lieutenant were kidnapped and killed in Jakarta, in what the army characterized as an attempted coup planned by the Communist Party. Students studying abroad, including Lolo, whose studies were sponsored by the government, were soon summoned home. A year later, in 1967, Ann graduated with a degree in anthropology, gathered up her 6-year-old child and moved to Indonesia to join her husband.
I note as you enter your seemingly endless election season that this time around the world and particularly you will have the pleasure of knowing more of BOs personal life & especially his mom's part in it. We all got dad's part last time around, eh. Note any brand BS? Of course not, moms are always righteous and best dead particularly if they were a bit over weight. Schmucks are schmucks ever if their moms worked hard and had good intention for the little shits, now schmucks, they bore. I often wonder now which way Ann maybe spinning in her grave given the son she bore and his dismal impact on the world & you as the first black POTUS.
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