How can he NOT claim to be a Bastard child. Easy I can answer that one in one word.
EGO.
There is NO WAY Obama the Arrogant is going to change his narrative now. He will try to say people are discriminating against him because he was raised by a single mom, but that dog don’t hunt.
There is far too much invested by Obama and team Obama into his narrative. Black African Dad! Kenyan Son! He went to some length to establish himself as the son of Barack Obama Sr. and you really think he is going to burn that whole thing successfully??
NO WAY. There is no way to do that and reconcile it with everything he has said for years!
I am betting against it.
The publication of “The Other Barack” has not only given him cover to change the narrative, but actually requires that he change the narrative, IMO.
It will be interesting to see if the Obama 2012 campaign was actually behind the rather slick claim to have been born to a single mom.
Remember that in the Ayers penned “Dreams” the marriage was uncertain and relatives in Kenya said his Dad was not how his mother said he was...and Mooshelle said his mom was very single when he was born...so the “improbable love” was bordering on being out-of-wedlock from the very beginning.
Remember that the Obama voter doesn't give a crap about marriage or having married parents!!!
In 2008 Obama was reaching out to white middleclass voters who valued marriage (at least more than others). Now in 2012 his campaign has already signaled they are giving up on whites altogether and going for the blacks and progressives who could care less about marriage before childbirth.