[Constitutions Grandchild]

Something tells me (from the painful experience of bringing my son and his father - my ex - through a reconcilliation) that Senator Obama has less than blissful memories of his father. He may relate to his paternal Grandmother, but I'm thinking his half-brother — not so much. Perhaps, he mulls over in his quiet moments that if his mother had not made the decision to get him back to her middle-class folks and show him how to get through the academic process and into good schools, he realizes that he'd be living in a shack with a tin roof for all his father cared.

That's a pretty tough heartache to have to carry. Daddy was a rolling stone and that's about all you can say about him. It's not a justification for some of his positions, but I look at him and think, “Honey, as looney left as your mother was, you've turned into one heck of a guy.” I don't want to bury the guy. I want him to take his time and do it right. If he has the brains I think he does, he'll move to the center in time. Of course he was friends with folks like Wright and Ayers. Those are the types his mother brought him up around.

[MNJohnnie]

Funny how in all the media airburshing about Oessiah’s childhood the fact that his grandmother is very well off and a fat cat in Hawaiian bank circles gets glossed over. Oessiah’s upbringing was about as far from poverty as it is possible to be. He was a silver spoon baby.