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Originally Posted by spence
Well, that and the foresight to know in nearly 50 years he'd be running for POTUS.
-spence
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or Prime Minister
President Obama Wanted to Be Prime Minister of Indonesia
4/20/11
Photo: Courtesy of Barack Obama
New York Times scribe Janny Scott went away in 2008 to research and write a book on the life of a woman who would have never expected to ever become a topic of such intense curiosity: Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who died in 1995. This week, the Times Magazine is running an excerpt of the book, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother, which not only illuminates the life of Stanley Ann during her time in Indonesia, but provides new insights into the childhood of the man who would eventually become president.
Then there's this anecdote:
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” [Obama's stepfather] Lolo asked Barry one evening, according to Saman.
“Oh, prime minister,” Barry answered.