As interesting as that all is, how is it his fault, or his problem, and how is it relevant?
She was an anti-American hippie who wanted dark-skinned men (but didn’t stay married to them) and left her parents to raise her son.
Again, how is that relevant, since I presume he had no choice in the matter. Specifically, what difference does the color of the men she liked have on anything. Seriously. What difference at all?
No use attacking Obama for that - not in this PC age - but it certainly had an impact on him.
So it is legitimate (but not PC) to attack a man based on the color of the men his mother liked and on who raised him as a child? Interesting.
And just how often has he thanked his white grandparents for raising him as a teen?
I don't know, but since you seem to know that he did not, what are your sources?
If you really think that these are the issues that will put a conservative in the White House come the next election, I think you have another think coming.
I responded to a post about how a picture revealed Obama’s mother as a devoted Mom. She was not. Devoted Moms do not give up their kids for 8 years. I’m currently watching our granddaughter - for a year, so her Mom can attend nursing school full time. If my daughter gave up HER daughter for 8 years, I would not call her a devoted Mom either!
I did not blame Obama for the problem, but he had a weird Mom. He even admitted so in his autobiography, mentioning that it felt strange to realize she had a thing for dark-skinned men. That is a paraphrase - I don’t have the exact quote on hand...but they are in essence HIS words, not mine.
Her behavior is consistent with someone who was ashamed of America and compensated for it by leaving the country. And I assure you, if McCain’s parents had done anything similar, we would hear of it non-stop.
And since I didn’t even know his grandmother was still alive until yesterday, I’d say he doesn’t mention her much. If he feels any gratitude, he conceals it well. Indeed, I’d bet the large majority of people don’t know he was raised by a white couple and attended good schools. It doesn’t fit well in the ‘I’m the first serious black candidate for the Presidency’ story.
Given how Obama seems to default to blame America first, I think his upbringing is pertinent. But then, I just bought two biographies of Nixon, so perhaps I’m just fascinated by what makes people do the things they do.
When you look at his background, a few things come to mind. This was the early 60’s when racially mixed marriages were taboo. It is not at all that way today but it was then. It amazes me that people don’t take the era of things into account.