Allow me to introduce Obama's parents

I've been told it's been kept a secret from DU and from America that Obama had one black parent and one white one.

You can thank me now for an awesome gesture of political transparency - :rofl:

know the ethnicity or heritage or looks of any other candidates parents.

And that includes every thread started by an Edwards supporter, or threads about Obama that that Edwards supporter participates in.

:rofl:

Here's a nice one of Barack and his grandparents (who raised him for a number of years) at his high school graduation.

Never saw that one before. Thanks.

What a little love can do, eh?

class at the Punahou school on Oahu..



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17003563/

Here he is at graduation from Punahou, then returning and speaking to our kids at the chapel. Man, I just really love this guy. We are so blessed to have such a clear mind and pure heart willing to pour so much into winning the chance to serve this country.

Thanks to you, I even knew about Obama's Punahou High School~

That's too cool how Obama has the Hawaii connection and is bringing all these people together. I'm starting to love him too and just want this primary to be over so the vilification will stop on DU and we can fight the repukes.

Mahalo for the stunning pics!

Work it Barack!

That's a terrific pic :D

but I'm a father and that is the cutest picture I have seen inawhile.

and he's pretty good looking too! :)

:toast:

I'll have to see if I can find one to scan in. That could seriously be me and my mom if you adjusted their complexions to that of dark-skinned Sicilians. Freaky.

(Too bad I didn't grow up to be quite as good-looking as Obama :( )

maybe it's because of the way it all turned out. So much love inside her; so much happiness in Barack. Sad, too, that she's not here to see all this. Grabs me every time.

:hug:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-070325obama-youth-story,1,4006113.story

Lots of great pics of the family.

And thank you, WesDem, for this lovely post!

Edited to add:

Here's a pic of Barack with his dad.

Nice photos!

I just want to pinch those cheeks.

I am not an expert but i did think that muslims look down on chemical addictions and that includes cigs.

or agnostic.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness.

This isn't to say that she provided me with no religious instruction. In her mind, a working knowledge of the world's great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. But I was made to understand that such religious samplings required no sustained commitment on my part. Religion was an expression of human culture, she would explain, not its wellspring, just one of the many ways — and not necessarily the best way — that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our lives.

In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.

I really need to read Obama's books soon.

even if it was about a nobody (which he was when he wrote it).

Cute photo.

:crazy:

Thanks for sharing WesDem. :)

I'll never understand what the big deal is.

Except the fashions have changed a bit!
Nice pics, thanks.

;)

You are very welcome :)

Somehow hoping to touch some racist nerve somewhere?

The majority of biracial couples I know are all serving honorably in the military, and some of them are gay.

A wonderful thread, full of beautiful photos, and a Hillary-hater has to bring in racism by accusing the Clintons of something they haven't done and never will.

He was sounding like Jesse Helms or Orval Faubus.

Ass.

Too bad they can't see what a wonderful son they raised.

What's the story of his parents?

When did they pass away?

accident when Barack was 21. I have no idea whether his stepdad is still around, but he has a half-sister, Maya, who is a high-school teacher in Honolulu. She's pretty, too.

God. Poor Barack. I can't imagine losing both parents. He's my age and thank god I still have my mom. My dad died in 2002.

because some might not know what Obama's parents look like.

for those who thought there was some political strategy in them not campaigning for him.

I had not seen most of the pix in this thread before, and they fill in a gap for me. Thanks to all of you.

Hawaii is such a culturally rich place to raise a kid in...

Hekate

The "secret" is out!!!:rofl:

Nice pics. I must say they are a good looking group of people.