It is not to his advantage considering the ethos of the democratic party to embrace anything white,conservative or christian. The worst combination would be all three in the eyes of the American liberal.
Yep. I hear he has apologized, in the new edition of his autobiography, for slighhting his mother in the original version. I guess now it's safe for him to mention the white woman and her parents who raised him, after his black father deserted him at the age of two.