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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (249902)5/14/2008 6:30:22 PM
From: MJ   of 793759
 
From the previous message--------

Meanwhile, Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post writes that "the sum total" of the Republican message this year is that McCain is more "American" than is Obama.

"That is why McCain's first post-primary ad proclaimed him 'the American president Americans have been waiting for.' Not the 'strong' or 'experienced' president, though those are contrasts he could seek to draw with Obama. The 'American' president — because that's the only contrast through which McCain has even a chance of prevailing."

But, Meyerson writes, Obama's life story "represents a triumph of specifically American identity over racial and religious identity. It was the lure of America, the shining city on a hill, that brought his black Kenyan father here, where he met Obama's white Kansan mother."

So what was the lure of America?

From my reading-----

Obama's father came to Hawaii because he was given a subsidy along with other Africans to go to school at the University of Hawaii------the lure was education paid for.

How long did he stay? That's not totally clear. It has been written that by the time young Obama was 2 he had left Obama and his mother in Hawaii for Harvard. From Harvard he went back to Kenya without Obama Jr. and without Obama Jr.'s mother.

To Obama's credit he survived a fatherless life and moved on despite this beginning.

This story is overly romanticized. It's time to get on with what Obama is advocating and will advocate if and when he is the Democrat nominee, what issues he supports and will vote for and against, what experience other than this overly romanticized life story he has had.

mj
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