I am curious because today, he said “I am amused about this notion of elitist, given that when you’re raised by a single mom, when you were on food stamps for a while when you were growing up, you went to school on scholarship,” So it was his mother that raised him, not the old typical white lady personhe threw under the bus?
I did some digging and via CC, this link to a 2007 Time article, (which features a picture of Obama at his church,) by Joe Klein tells us much and you should read it all, but this is the key portion:
His parents met at the University of Hawaii and stayed together only briefly. His father left when Obama was 2 years old, and Barack was raised in Hawaii by his Kansas grandparents, except for a strange and adventurous four-year interlude when he lived in Indonesia with his mother and her second husband. As a teenager at Hawaii’s exclusive Punahou prep school and later as a college student, Obama road tested black rage, but it was never a very good fit. There was none of the crippling psychological legacy of slavery in his family’s past. He was African and American, as opposed to African American, although he certainly endured the casual cruelties of everyday life”in the new book, he speaks of white people mistaking him for a valet-parking attendant”that are visited upon nonwhites in America. “I had to reconcile a lot of different threads growing up”race, class,” he told me. “For example, I was going to a fancy prep school, and my mother was on food stamps while she was getting her Ph.D.” Obama believes his inability to fit neatly into any group or category explains his relentless efforts to understand and reconcile opposing views. But the tendency is so pronounced that it almost seems an obsessive-compulsive tic.
Who raised him and why was his mother collecting welare? If he was living at his Grandparents house, why would they be collecting welfare? I won’t get into the private school issue because many of them offer scholarships to students for a variety of reasons, low income being one of them. I would like to know how a person collected welfare benefits while getting a PhD and living with her parents..the parents that raised her kid..right?
I then referenced the June 16, 2007 article; Obama urges fathers to be responsible:
The Illinois senator, who as a child had little contact with his African father except occasional letters, drew on his own life story as he spoke, describing the difficulties of growing up without a father. He noted that, without support from his father, he and his mother at times turned to food stamps to make ends meet.
Did that ever come up in his books? It seems to me that Barack tells us that his Mother raised him when it suits his needs. Is he smoking that “Arugula” ?
It appears that he is in need of one of those shovels!
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When he made that comment I asked the same thing. Some of us actually have a longer momory than one news cycle. Maybe she was getting food stamps in Jakarta? When did the typical granny get promoted to VP of the bank? Maybe if mommy hadn’t spread her legs at 17 she woud have been able to support her offspring. I’m not going to go down the whole “burdened” route, or my “bitterness” will show.
Udder- Go ahead and show your bitterness!
I think the man started saying things and did not realize that everything he says can and will be checked out!
Perhaps Obama’s Mother as just another “typical white person”.
Perhaps Obama is another typical black person?
OMG!
That is RACIST!!! (except it’s okay if Obama says it).
this is pretty racist and uniformed about how the welfare system works…
Yes, Rebecca it certainly is and what’s more, ANYONE who doesn’t vote for Obama is a racist too!!!
“ANYONE who doesn’t vote for Obama is a racist too!!!”
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Not all of them; but sadly way too many voters repub and dem actually are racist deep down and won’t/can’t vote for Sen. Obama only because of the color of his skin.
My hope is that their negative vote will be countered by new voters really excited about the possiblity of a President Barack Obama…
We’ll see in Nov.
SFL while there are always racists around, including black ones, I doubt the percentage is high enough to affect a national election.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Well now you have it. “MAYBE . . . MAYBE NOT?” The piss ant Demoflat’s answer for everything they don’t know, and they don’t know anything about everything.