That should have been obvious from the beginning:
Don't think so -- it's sprayed-on. He's a hothouse product of Punahou School and Occidental College, Columbia and Harvard Law. There isn't an ounce of tough in him. That's why military people don't like him -- they can smell the custard and the rot.
Someone said something about Hillary being such a bitch. Said she was suburban-Chicago tough, not downtown-Chicago tough like Obama's thugs, Axelgrease and Plouffe and Mayor Daley's boys.
Bobby Rush derided Obama back in the day and sent him packing -- he knew what Obama was, a "tan man" in a three-piece, a Harvard girlyman with an Oreo culture.
That was poetry ! !
Very insightful!
You seem to assume that an individual's personality can only be made up of actual experiences. But Obama's book Dreams from My Father is entirely about the attitudes and resentments he took on based on his father's experiences and those of Africans and blacks in general.
Obama is a mixed-up mess of envy and resentments he's taken on from various aspects of the black experience, and the Third World experience, few of which he actually expereienced in any real way while growing up, and certainly not while he was given affirmative action access to educational oportunities he had not earned based on merit.
But still, he's taken on those resentments and attitudes and the attitudes of the street thug is often a part of it.
That should have been obvious from the beginning: