Posted on 03/08/2022 4:09:30 AM PST by MtnClimber
Sometimes I feel sorry for Barack Obama. Though we grew up in the same era—indeed, were born less than two months apart—he had a very different upbringing. The title of his first autobiography says it all: Dreams from My Father.
Unlike young Barack, I was blessed with a present father who took an active hand in raising me—a hand that, on rare occasions, wielded an old wooden paddle. I got a lot more than just dreams from my father. I received love, affection, counsel, discipline, and direction. Whatever wisdom I possess, whatever wisdom I have managed to pass on to my own children, came mostly from him (and probably from his dad before him).
That Obama overcame his father’s rejection is to some extent a credit to him. Unfortunately, it seems to have shaped his warped worldview, especially his apparent belief that the state should act as a substitute parent. Yes, he went on to become President of the United States, leader of the free world, which sadly grew progressively less free under his watch; whereas I, in the eyes of the world, am a nobody.
Yet I would not trade growing up under the watchful eye of a loving, engaged father for anything—not eight years in the White House, not a muti-million-dollar publishing deal, not a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. Between me and Barack, I’m pretty sure I got the better deal.
I realize this might be starting to sound like a eulogy. Thankfully, it is not. My dad, the noted writer and photographer David B. Jenkins, is alive and well. As I write, he and my mom are traveling across the country in an RV, fulfilling a lifelong dream. But it is probably what I would write, hopefully in the far distant future.
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0bama’s father was a communist who wanted a communist world with no USA. 0bama has been trying to give him his dream.
That pretty much works no matter who 0bama’s father really is.
Obama couldn’t have picked his father out of a police lineup. I’m not even sure he knows who the guy was.
One emotion I never feel for that pathetic sack of s@@@, is “sorry”.
Wahhh! The communist baby-killing, anti-American, communist thug had a rough childhood. Give me a break.
Why doesn’t Obama ever mention his mother? Did she beat him with a coat hanger?
Hey! You only referred to 0 as a “communist” twice? What gives?
And I love the comments (up till now)!
Regards,
>> By teaching our children never to fight, we’re teaching them there’s nothing worth fighting for.
Very true.
We are also teaching them to succumb to bullies by doing this.
His claimed father also gave him Kenyan nationality and British subject status, he is not a natural born citizen and was never eligible to be President under our Constitution.
NOT ONE of our elected or appointed would stand for the Constitution.
Everyone should be able to see that the founders were correct to exclude the children of foreigners, as they themselves are born foreigners, even if we give them citizenship, too.
Maybe I work for the department of redundancy department.
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