The man of curious father figures and mother figures

Barack Obama’s father was a Kenyan Muslim who separated from Obama’s mother when Obama was two and went back to Africa where he married other wives. He only saw Obama once again, when Obama was ten. Obama’s next father was his mother’s second husband, an Indonesian Muslim with whom Obama lived in Indonesia between the ages of six and ten, during which time he attended an Islamic school. When Obama was in high school in Hawaii his mentor was Frank Marshal Davis, a Communist who told Obama “not to forget his ‘people’ and not to ‘start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that s**t.” And on the first day of Obama’s political career in 1995, when he was introduced by retiring Illinois state senator Alice Palmer to influential Chicago liberals as her chosen successor and gave his first political speech, the meeting took place at the Hyde Park home of the former (and to this day unrepentant) Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 24, 2008 11:12 PM | Send