CeJ jannuzi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well Obama's up from the ashes story just never sat very well with me. ^^^ CB: When I read part of O's biography, I never got the impression he was telling an "up from ashes story". He was in a middle class white family. His mother was not a typical single mom. She remarried an Indonesian at some point. And Barack (Barry) lived with his grandparents for a significant time. His grandfather was a salesman( travelling ?) and his grandmother was an executive in a local bank. Obama sort of describes his life as middle class, and actually middle class white, not Black. His father is a high level government minister in Kenya, with whom he corresponds, though only meets briefly. His father chastises the white grandparents when O is allowed to watch television after doing homework during the brief visit. In other words, the father has a very strict standard. ^^^^ ^^^^^ Sure, it's a typical pattern of single moms of all races that they end up working for the Ford Foundation in the 1960s. Geraldine Ferraro got it so wrong. Obama is where he is because his mother was white and of fairly privileged background. His humble pie myth isn't even as convincing as Bill Clinton's. But I don't think all that background will keep him from being a categorically different president. So far though his relations with the Democratic Party elite are not indicating much good. If McCain could coax Colin Powell out of his shame-faced retirement from politics, the Dems are in big trouble. Would the Dems call him out for being guilty of what most of what they themselves are guilty of? That is, of going along with the 'WMD lies' and related intel apparatus misinformation in order to create future deniability. CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
