President’s Mother to Become Published Author

Just Wonderful.

No doubt a quick best-seller…

old mo,
I think I read something that she’s making an Islamic pilgrimage soon. Sara Obama.
Meanwhile, the lawsuit filed yesterday in Pennsylvania (Liberi et al. v. Taitz et al.) ought to afford an excellent opportunity to get into court and find out who Obama really is.

ANYONE REMEMBER the loony left’s complaints about President Bush’s “Cowboy Swagger”? Have you noticed the O’Babble “jiggy walk” ? It’s kind of like one leg is 4 inches shorter than the other. Where are the jokes ?

The mainstream media’s sycophancy on behalf of Obama knows no bounds.
Happy Cinco de Cuatro, everyone!

Speaking of publishing, the NY Post says the Scare Force one photos will not be released.
$329,000 for a photo op that is producing no photos.
What is wrong with this picture?

“Happy Cinco de Cuatro, everyone!”
5th of 4th? What does that even mean?
She was an attractive woman.

Sounds like a Genesis tune.

silky…”She was an attractive woman.” Never ceases to amaze me how liberals attach an individual’s “coolness factor” or “attractiveness” as a measure of that individual’s intelligence or ability to lead……….AMAZING!!!

Can they also please publish her passport so we can verify she was in Hawaii on August 4, 1961?
Obama’s own grandmother swears in an affidavit she was present in Mombassa, Kenya at his birth.
Why, Mr. President, is her passport a ‘state secret’?

“silky…”She was an attractive woman.” Never ceases to amaze me how liberals attach an individual’s “coolness factor” or “attractiveness” as a measure of that individual’s intelligence or ability to lead……….AMAZING!!!”
All I said was that she was attractive. Settle down, gomer.

“People who DON’T WANT this to happen again and will use those photos as a reminder to those too thick too realize just how thoughtless this was”
I am embarrassed for you. It’s time to let this one go. There was no way to forsee people freaking out like that. Not to mention, the President didn’t even know about it. Seriously…there are more important things to concern yourself with than this already-gone story. As much as you’d love for it to be the case, ERs were not filled up with PTSD flare-ups that day.

Talk about cashing in…

Can’t wait to see Obama’s Russian/US nuclear arms thesis if it still exists…might be a little more important than his mother’s writings.

R.I.P.

Silky, let’s forget the cost. The question still remains. Why do a photo op then refuse to release the pictures?

It wasn’t good enough 14 some years ago. Obama is the most self-serving president we have ever had.

“It wasn’t good enough 14 some years ago. Obama is the most self-serving president we have ever had.”
Why is that?

mad | May 5, 2009 11:19:38 AM wrote “Whi [sic] will profit from the book sales?” obviously anthropologists, students, economists, people interested in Indonesia. i know you were being cynical, but often people who read profit the most when a book is published.

Paul Wall, it’s not cynical to ask who will profit from the sale of a book when the author is dead. There are several possibilities that quickly come to mind.
1. The president and his sister
2. Mrs. Dunham’s grandchildren
3. The Ford Foundation
4. Some other foundation as designated by Mrs. Dunham before her death or by her family more recently

“Why is that? Because it all about him!”
Ah. Well-articulated.

“It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham,”
Yeah, it’s so remarkable that no one could be bothered with it all these years. What an amazing coincidence that they realized how important her work was at just the same time that one of her kids became president.
So much for integrity.

Poppie, there are no “Hidden dissertations” from President Obama. He does not hold a PhD.
And this basically amounts to a vanity press-sort of publication of his mother’s dissertation, since she herself never revised it for publication. Some of us hold PhDs and have written dissertations, so we know how academic writing and publishing works. Dissertations in their raw state are rarely publishable– even marvelous examples undergo major revisions to make them appropriate for publication by an academic press. A dissertation includes, for example, an extensive literature survey to demonstrate the writer’s knowledge of the field and to situate the research in question into the field. Much of this historiographic material is of interest to no one outside the dissertation committee members.
Clearly, the two anthropologists editing the book will do some extensive revisions to make it work. Then again, I don’t think that they will market this as a scholarly monograph so much as a general interest publication that will sell on its curiosity factor.

silky…gomer??? LOL…AW I see your liberal side showing through…LOL

Paul Wall (you’re not a dentist in Georgia, by any chance, are you?), I would point out that while Duke University Press is an academic publisher, it is one of the largest such publishers and also publishes trade publications marketed for a more general educated audience, similar to UChicago and Harvard U presses. It is a top-25 academic press and publishes hundreds of titles per year. It likes to think of itself as groovy and cutting-edge– lots of GLBT and post-colonial titles, facebook and twitter accounts, the whole nine yards.
According to folks who know this particular press better than I, Duke University Press is not aiming this publication at the academic anthropology market. It is indeed a book they want to make money with, and one that would not have been published if the author, now deceased, did not have such a famous son. They also are interested in the publicity that will be generated.