When Obama writes a tribute book to his mother and maternal grandmother I might then consider him Mr. Inclusive. Why he chose to dis them by not to date writing a book about each of them is a mystery to me. Instead he chose to write about the man who basically was a sperm donor and then split as soon as possible, and, only saw the boy once before he died in his early 40's in a car accident. Fast forward to today. I had to scrounge around the internet to find info about his mom. There's not much there. I certainly haven't heard anything about her from his mouth during his interviews or debates. He's very lofty and praiseworthy about everything except the two most prominent people in his upbringing, mom and grandma. His sister says that it's okay for him to pick his race. I say that he needs to say it out loud: "I'm black and I'm white, and I'm proud." Let's truly turn our thinking around about race. If a person has one drop of white blood, then that person is white. Then that person can say "I'm white." on one day and I'm black." on another day. That's the way we all should think about multiracial bloodlines. Mr. High and Mighty Uniter Peacemaker needs to start including mom and grandma in his rhetorical presentations before I'll be impressed with him.

You bring up some very important points I never thought of. How did Obama get on with the women in his life? I haven't read his books so maybe I better go and at least skim them.

You haven't read Obama's book. It is not about his father. It is a memoir about his own racial and culture identity.

Strange! I didnt have to "scrounge" around the internet to find info about Obama's mother....nor him talking about her. Here is a sample on my first google...

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Seems like the right wingers are already gearing up the smear/impugn campaigns?