Obama was born to a self-proclaimed radical and atheist mother and a Muslim father who abandoned him. His life went downhill from there. Not materially, but culturally and ethically. By the time he was 10 and dumped on his grandparents, his inner personality was formed. Yet his autobiography shows that he still desperately was searching for meaning and a way to define his identity. He is nominally a “Christian” convert, but to a politicized religion that has nothing to do with a personal relationship to God.
Obama is really not “American” in his ideals, background, cultural identity, or thinking and that’s why we keep seeing these discordant glimpses. HE is the one who is bitter. If he weren’t such a pompous ass, you could almost feel sorry for him. He’s a lost soul.
If he hadn’t come from a moneyed background, he’d probably be just another street criminal.
Great summary. What is scary, is that is really obvious to anyone who has taken a close look at this guy’s history and statements, and yet so few seem to realize it.
Hearing his explanation (read from his books) about his entry into the church it is obvious he had no come-to-Jesus moment and experienced no moment of being saved.He doesn’t even know how to talk about it to seem that he had.He never even studied how and why people become Christians. He picked a church because it was politically necessary and he chose the one with the right social programs. That’s what he said. In truth, that’s all part of it but the heart of the matter is “street cred” and political visibility. It was and is entirely calculation from ideology and ignorance.