We have often heard him refer to himself as "the son of a teen aged mother". Since she met his father in college, she had to have been at least 18 years old, hardly the typical "teen aged mother". He was raised not by father or mother, actually, but by his mother's parents. For all the ridicule Hillary has taken for her book "It Takes A Village", it is a good thin, indeed, Barack had a village to raise him, even if it was only a white one that he felt he had to deny. This is one big Public Relations campaign by the DNC and the media.
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KNOW WHAT YOU ARE UP AGAINST. Let's face it, becoming the first African-American president is a tough gig. It's made tougher in your case by the fact that you are from a big city, you have a liberal voting record and even (paradoxically) because you come from the Ivy League and the professoriat. Frankly, it would be better if you were from a small town in the South, had served a hitch in the gulf war and had gone to, say, Ole Miss. It's no accident that the last three Democratic presidents—Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton—were small-town Southerners. You are what you are, and we can all be thankful for the guts and ambition you have shown, but realize what you are up against.
LEARN AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. If you play this right, the campaign can and will continue to be an education in the country. You didn't get much, frankly, merely representing the South Side in Springfield, or in a Senate race in Illinois against a farce of a Republican candidate in 2004. As you have said, you have now been to 47 states. Now you have to dig deeper, starting in, say, southern Indiana.
© 2008
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