I. Obama’s Roots in Polygamy and the Ford Foundation 27Harvard, Stanley Ann disappeared from the University of Hawaii student gatherings, but she did not
accompany her husband to Harvard. Abercrombie said he rarely saw her after that. “I know he
loved Ann,” Abercrombie said, but “I think he didn’t want the impediment of being responsible for
a family. He expected great things of himself and he was going off to achieve them.”’ (Chicago
Tribune, March 27, 2007)
In 1963, Obama Senior abandoned his wife and infant son in order to enter a doctoral program in
economics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His decision can only be
characterized as cruelly egotistical and irresponsible. Obama Senior had received two fellowships.
One was to pursue a doctorate in economics at the New School for Social Research in New York
City. This fellowship was generous enough so as to permit both Ann and baby Barack to
accompany him to New York. The Harvard fellowship was smaller, reportedly not sufficient to
support Ann and her baby. Obama Senior callously argued that he had no choice but to accept the
Harvard fellowship. As Ann Dunham later told her son Barack: ‘“He received two scholarships, one
in New York, which paid enough to support all three of us. Harvard had just agreed to pay tuition.
‘How can I refuse the best education?’ he told me. That’s all he could think about, proving that he
was the best.”’ (Dreams 126)
Naturally, Obama Senior and/or Ann could have supplemented the fellowship with a part-time or
full-time job if the main goal had been to keep the family together. Once it was clear that Obama
Senior was determined to abandon his family, Ann could have sued him for divorce and child
support payments, since Obama Senior’s polygamous outlook had no standing under US law.
Instead of acting to assert the best interests of her infant child, Ann Dunham chose supinely to let
herself be abused and mistreated by Obama Senior, who thus emerges as a monster of egomania.
Ann was apparently so deluded by her relativistic and Rousseauvian ideological categories that she
was unable to fight for her son’s future.
Barack Obama glosses over Obama Senior’s abandonment of his mother in detached prose in the
passive voice: “A separation occurred, and he returned to Africa to fulfill his promise to the
continent.” (Dreams 10) Obsessed with his racialist ideology, Obama chooses not to recognize that
his mother was treated as a doormat, and was too weak to assert herself against the outrageous
actions of Obama Senior. Perhaps Obama’s contempt for women is rooted in his mother’s craven
willingness to capitulate to the selfishness of Obama Senior. For Ann Dunham, Rousseau was much
more powerful than feminism when it really mattered. When Obama was about to visit Senior in
Kenya for the first time, poor Ann Dunham told Obama: I hope you don’t feel resentful towards
him...It wasn’t your father’s fault that he left, you know. I divorced him.” (Dreams 125) This
account is at variance with the fact of abandonment, and shows that even after many years, Ann
refused to accept the reality of the outrageous treatment she had received, and of her own failure to
fight for her son.
It is worth noting in passing that Obama qualifies as a fatherless young boy who was also
abandoned by his mother before the age of 10. This pattern produces a psychological profile full of
debilitating psychological complexes, including the obsessive quest for an ersatz or substitute
father, and the need to be assured of one’s own personal worth by a series of sexual partners, be
they male or female. The last president to exhibit this pattern was William Jefferson Blythe III, the
posthumous son better known as Bill Clinton, whose father was killed in an automobile accident
before he was born. For some time after that, young Bill Clinton lived with his grandparents while
his mother allegedly worked as a nurse in another city. Bill Clinton’s case of this syndrome was
complicated by the fact that his stepfather, Roger Clinton, was an alcoholic who physically abused