Keep digging the grave...you know, this is the issue with either a very liberal female or minority in office...this attitude. It's a problem on either extreme...very deeply held stereotypes. Perhaps instead of labeling his mother as a 'typical white person' he should have made a more proper note that his grandmother was a product of the times in which she was raised and lived. It tells me he's either not good at thinking on his feet or very introspective.
He never should have tossed Granny under the bus in "The Speech," like you said - he keeps digging himself a hole.
It says a lot about who he is that he relates more to the more radical black constituency then to the grandmother that spent time in her life when she should have been done raising children, raising him. Not unusual from mixed heritage individuals. It is as if they are forever trying to identify, usually with, the half of them that left their lives. Maybe that's analyzing him too much, but his issues are not a thing to build a policy on for running the country.
My best friend from grade school has bi-racial children. She herself is bi-racial (half white and half hispanic). The first two are with a dead beat man who SHE had to pay to get to come to his own daughters wedding last year (he didn't even give her a gift). Her son up and decided he wanted to live with his dad, who consequently NEVER paid a dime of child support and basically was non existent in his life, when he turned 17. His father lives in Houston and she still lives in Omaha (where I'm originally from). She let him go because she thought he needed to get to know his father. His Dad doesn't even let him live with him, he is apparently living with a cousin and has in essence turned into his loser father.
Her new husband (who also happens to be black) has a son who is 16. This new husband was in the Marines and is a great guy. His son is a good kid and does well in school, her new husband has had custody of his son since his divorce from his mother many years ago. My friend said that her oldest daughter (she has another daughter from a short marriage that was between loser sperm doner and her current husband) said to her once that she considers herself white. She asked her why and she said because she didn't like her Dad (and in general his whole family). She told her that her Dad being black has nothing to do with him being a bad father and that there were bad fathers that were white or any race for that matter. She still identifies as white (she looks kind of like Mariah Carry), married a white man and only has a few black friends even though her mother was always positive about her black history.
My friend is the best person and mother and she raised her children the same which makes me think that for a boy growing up without a father must make him look to a male authority figure (as Obama does his pastor) more as a father figure. That is the only reason I can think of why Obama can't distance himself from his pastor. I think it may be both a race and father figure type issue rather than just a race issue alone with Obama.
