"His father, who was black, abandoned him and his mother when he was about two years old. He lived with his white mother and white grandparents."
Yet when he went to Africa, he made all kinds of noise about "going home to my people."
Self-hating white liberals and OF COURSE blacks are much more likely to favor him if he plays up the black brother thing, and ignores that unhip white blood.
Ol' George Jefferson would characterize Osama-Obama as nothing other than a ZEBRA!
Black? Yeah, right.
Of course that is what he will do. I'll bet we will never ever hear him talk about his mother or grandparents that raised him. I'll bet he will mysteriously find the father that abandoned him as well.
Notice the wording here:
Obama's father left the family to attend Harvard and eventually returned to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist.
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/obama_b.htm
Free Resources : Black History : Biographies : Barack Obama
Black History
Barack Obama
Source: Biography Resource Center, Gale Group. 2004.
Aug. 4, 1961 -
Hawaii, United States
Nationality: American
Occupation: politician
Occupation: Lawyer
Awards: "40 under 40" award,Crains Chicago Business, 1993.
Barack Obama was a state senator from Illinois when he won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in March of 2004. During the Nov. 2, 2004, elections, Obama became only the third African American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican Alan Keyes in Illinois. His selection as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention that July confirmed his status as a rising star.
Had International Upbringing
Obama was born in Hawaii. His father was a black man from Kenya, his mother a white woman from Kansas who had moved to Honolulu with her parents. Obama's father left the family to attend Harvard and eventually returned to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. His mother?s second husband was an Indonesian oil manager, and Obama lived in that country from the ages of six to ten years old. Afterward, he went back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.
Although Obama?s father only visited him once after he left, the son grew up with stories of his father?s brilliant mind. Obama honed his own mind at Hawaii?s top prep academy, Punahou School. From there, Obama went to Columbia University, where he became interested in community activism. After graduating in 1983, he moved to Chicago to spend three years as a community organizer on the city?s poverty-stricken South Side.
Obama?s intellect, drive, and social conscience led to his decision to become a lawyer. He went to Harvard Law School, where he became the first African-American president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. Upon his graduation (magna cum laude) in 1991, Obama shunned offers of prominent law firms and impressive clerkships in order to practice civil rights law in Chicago. He also took a position teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. Soon the idealistic young attorney became involved in politics.
Encouraged the Politics of Unity
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, representing the 13th District as a Democrat. His work there included writing landmark legislation to stop racial profiling and sponsoring a bill to expand medical coverage for uninsured children. He also developed a reputation for an inclusive style that eschewed mud-slinging and gained the admiration of his opponents. Republican state Senator Kirk Dillard told William Finnegan of the New Yorker, "Obama is an extraordinary man. His intellect, his charisma. He?s to the left of me on gun control, abortion. But he can really work with Republicans."
In March of 2004, Obama took his efforts to connect with all kinds of people to the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. His message apparently resounded with voters, as he won a surprising 53 percent of the vote—including support from white blue-collar workers. Obama explained his appeal across demographic lines to Bob Herbert of the New York Times. While admitting there are differences among people, Obama said there is also "a set of core values that bind us together as Americans." If his message continued to resonate with voters, Obama would become only the third African-American U.S. Senator since Reconstruction.
The Democratic Party also noted Obama?s ideas and success, and invited him to be the keynote speaker at its national convention in July 2004. Despite his intelligence, ambition, and broad appeal, simple civility distinguished Obama from many of his political peers. He told Herbert of New York Times, "There?s a certain tone in politics that I aspire to that allows me to disagree with people without being disagreeable."
"The Candidate," New Yorker, May 31, 2004,