In my mind you clearly didn’t connect to the book but to say that Obama doesn’t recognize his mother’s sacrifices and accomplishments, to insinuate he doesn’t feel connected to the work he was doing in Chicago.
Frankly, I question how well you read the book. I question how you can question this man’s devotion to his family or his mother who he has always thanked and upheld as a tower of strength. And I disagree with your rather inflamatory comment that his heart’s home is in Kenya; his heart may have longed for his father but he’s always struck me in speech, thought, and action as a man who loves his country.
I don’t know what you were attempting to convey with your review of his memoir and how you were attempting to connect that to the lack of support you have for him; despite disingenously claiming to want to want to support him.
I just know that I found this trite, fairly offensive (or I should say rather gratingly offensive), and wondering at what in the world you were trying to obliquely say.
That the man is too self-centered to be President of the United States? That his work as a community organizer wasn’t about helping but about himself alone and not the good he was doing? That he wants to run for some sinsiter unknowable reason that has to do w/his father’s abandonment? What exactly is your point?
That he is blind to his father issues: what about Sen. Clinton apparently blind to her father’s coldness or her mother staying with him and marrying a similar man? What about President Clinton’s family issues? President Bush’s constant struggle and one-upmanship with his father, President Bush?
Do daddy issues disqualify you from becoming president? Because history’s rife with them sir, and a lot of people go on having a blind spot for the people who gave them life.
When you decide to base a post and your discussion on the man’s personal biography and take shots on his life story you should be clearer. All I’m left with here is a faint hearted (and I mean by that cowardly) attempt at slimming a popular man and a book a lot of bi-racial people do “get.”
Sometimes, it’s better to say nothing at all. Because all you do say is that you resent the man for still loving a shitty father.
A lot of us do.
