Ann Dunham (Obama) Sutoro and her Muslim son, Barack.

The background of Obama's mother

Barack Obama referred to his mother as "the dominant figure in my formative years."

Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack's Mother

Stanley Ann Dunham, Mercer Island High School
Interesting information.....

Stanley Ann Dunham Obam a Soetoro (November 29, 1942 - November 7, 1995), known as Ann Dunham and Stanley Ann Dunham, was an American anthropologist, left-wing social activist, and the mother of Senator Barack Obama. She was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. Her father was a furniture salesman in downtown Seattle, Washington, and her mother worked for a bank. After a year living in Seattle, her family moved to Mercer Island, Washington, in 1956, so that 13-year-old Ann could attend the Mercer Island High School that had just opened. At the school she was on the debate team and graduated in 1960.

Her family moved to Hawaii and Ann attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she studied anthropology.
When Ann Dunham arrived in Hawaii, she was a full-fledged radical leftist and practitioner of critical theory. She also began to engage in miscegenation (inter-racial relationships) as part of her attack on society.
Susan Blake, one of her friends, has stated she never dated "the crew-cut white boys," She had a world view, even as a young girl. It was embracing the different, rather than that ethnocentric thing of shunning the different. That was where her mind took her.
In Hawaii she met Barack Obama, Sr. from Kenya in her Russian language class.
Barack Obama, Jr. was born August 4, 1961.

Barack Obama, Sr. left Ann and their son in 1963 to attend Harvard in Boston Press reports claim Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. were divorced around this time; however, no evidence has yet been presented to show they were ever married. The senior Obama obtained a masters degree in economics at Harvard and returned to Kenya in 1965 where he obtained a position in the Kenyan government. He was killed in an automobile accident in 1982.

Two years later, when her son was five, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian oil manager and practicing Muslim whom she meet at the university. In 1967 they moved to Jakarta , Indonesia . While in Indonesia Ann got a job at the American embassy teaching English.

Barack's half-sister, Maya Soetoro was born in Indonesia . Ann, Obama and his sister, Maya, moved back to Hawaii. Ann Dunham soon returned to Indonesia with Maya but divorced Soetoro in the late 1970s.

Dunham traveled around the world, pursuing a career in rural development that took her to Ghana, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal and Bangladesh. In 1986, Ann Dunham worked on a developmental project in Pakistan . Later that year, Ann and her daughter traveled the Silk Road in China.
In 1992 she earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii Her dissertation, "Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia : Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds," was 1067 pages long. She worked for the Ford Foundation and promoted Microlending.

During Obama's campaign for the 2008 presidential election he portrayed his mother as a conservative girl from Kansas; however in reality she was a radical leftist and cultural Marxist. She lived in the Seattle area; spending her teenage years in Seattle coffee shops with other young radical leftist.

Obama claims his mother's family were conservative Methodists or Baptists from Kansas. However, his mother's parents were members of a left-wing Unitarian church near Seattle. The church located in Bellevue, Washington was nicknamed "the little red church," because of its communist leanings.

The school Ann attended, Mercer Island High School, was a hotbed of pro-Marxist radical teachers. John Stenhouse, board member, told the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party USA and this school has a number of Marxists on its staff. Two teachers at this school, Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman, both Frankfurt School style Marxists, taught a critical theory curriculum to students which included; rejection of societal norms, attacks on Christianity, the traditional family, and assigned readings by Karl Marx. The hallway between Foubert's and Wichterman classrooms was some times called "anarchy ally."

Dunham has been described by her friends as "a fellow traveler..." meaning a communist sympathizer.

In an interview, Barack Obama referred to his mother as "the dominant figure in my formative years... The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."

Before she died Ann Dunham wanted to adopt a mixed-race Korean baby fathered by a Black American stationed in South Korea. Ann Dunham died in Hawaii in 1995 of ovarian cancer and uterine cancer.

Comment:
She appears to have been well educated and traveled. However, her upbringing and pre-collegiate education during her formative years, known Marxist politics and activities, make it really difficult to identify her as a conservative; and if she really was "the dominant figure in my formative years... The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics," then we are in a world of hurt if this individual is elected to the highest office in the land.

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Documentation here:
Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas By Tim Jones | Tribune national correspondent, for Chicago Tribune dot com Web Edition.
The Story of Barack Obama's Mother By AMANDA RIPLEY/HONOLULU for Time Magazine.
A Free-Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama's Path By JANNY SCOTT for the New York Times.
Holding down the Obama family fort 'Grandma' makes the race possible By Scott Helman Globe Staff in the Boston Globe dot com.
Obama's mother - an unconventional life; Anthropologist disliked ethnic barriers, sought to aid world's poor by Janny Scott, New York Times, reported in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Obama's mother known here as "uncommon" by Jonathan Martin Seattle Times staff reporter
The Story of Barack Obama's Mother by AMANDA RIPLEY/HONOLULU in My Political Blog.
Was Barack Obama a Muslim? by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com in his blog DanielPipesdotorg.
Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com in his blog DanielPipesdotorg. He states: Obama's having been born and raised a Muslim and having left the faith to become a Christian make him neither more nor less qualified to become president of the United States. But if he was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president.
Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com in his blog DanielPipesdotorg. He states: All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what Islamic law calls a murtadd (apostate), an ex-Muslim converted to another religion who must be executed. Were he elected president of the United States, this status, clearly, would have large potential implications for his relationship with the Muslim world.

In sum: Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim who rarely or occasionally prayed with his step-father in a mosque. This precisely substantiates my statement that he "for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father."