Posted on 12/13/2009 10:16:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
One of the most significant Christmas presents President Obama ever received was a basketball from the father who was largely absent from his life, the president told Oprah Winfrey.
This and other Xmas revelations are part of "Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special," set to air Sunday night on ABC at 10 p.m. ET.
Asked his favorite Christmas gift as a child, the president recalled a 10 speed bike and then said, "I do remember the one time I met my father he was visiting during Christmas and he gave me a basketball and - the degree to which I came to love basketball - it wasn't until much later in life that I realized, ‘Actually, he gave me that basketball.' I think there was some cause and effect there in terms of the degree to which I just ended up taking up the sport as a kid who didn't know his dad."
The First Lady's favorite childhood gift was "a metal doll house with plastic furniture ... I remember I really didn't know how to set up a house so I had all the furniture lined up along the walls as opposed to nestled around the fireplace, but I loved that little doll house."
Pressed by Winfrey, the First Lady said she had an Easy Bake Oven "but you know once you run out of the mix it's like you're done with it."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Dear Bgill: people who don’t know Greek, and who don’t appreciate the connection of the letter ‘X’ to the name of ‘Christ’, are not trying to ‘start something’. They’re just people who love Jesus, and who haven’t taken Greek classes, or been introduced to Greek spelling, etc. I was once one of them. I thought the reference to ‘Xmas’ was an attempt to ‘X’ Jesus out of Christmas. Then I took, and aced, Koine Greek. Now I know better. That doesn’t make me better than you or anyone else. Every person I meet online knows things I don’t know, and vice versa. The point being, if you are a Christian, then why not treat fellow believers with decency and respect? We have enough non-Christians belittling us. Why join the crowd?
I smell a new holiday-themed book, “The Kawanzaa Basketball”. Just crib from “The Christmas Sweater”, replacing ‘mother’ with ‘father’, and ‘sweater’ with ‘basketball’. Look for it at your local Borders.
0bama never had a reliable father figure in his life. That’s why he is SO effete.
You know they say that Bill Clinton was our first black president. Well maybe 0bama is our first eunuch president.
Yes. He is the effete, neutered eunuch president.
He’s so jealous of the “tea baggers” because he never has had them.
It’s not XMAS IT’S Christmas!!!
WTF?
Do the people of her planet live in the forest or something?
How can you not know how a house, like the one you're living in, is set up?
Weird. Weird quote. Weird person. If she is a person, that is.
Goonie goo goo, Michelle.
Yeah, it is genuinely touching to see Mama Cass, Garret Morris, and Gary Coleman Photoshopped into a typical white person's holiday background...
From the looks of the furniture, it almost looks like another one of those airport pictures :-)
Daphne Barak—I have not heard that name before.
Vattel in Bk 1 Sec 212, states the following.
§ 212. Citizens and natives.
The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.
The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it.
The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born.
I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
Going back to this picture. Does that kid even look like bama?
Fat cheeks, buck teeth.......
I have serious doubts about this picture.
Have you looked at these?
Scroll towards the end.
http://cambodiana.org/MainreasonsofmysupportofObama.aspx
Looking at them now. Thanks for the link, GF!
I think it’s akin to deer zing and ped zing.
That’s been posted a few times on the eligibility threads. I believe Fred Nerks first posted it. Can’t say for sure.
>> Remind me, will you? What the hell is Xmas?
Who the hell knows. Go ask X Tapper.
And the name on the photo, Daphne Barak (quite a coincidence ..;), has traveled far and wide, with her glamourous look, to
interview heads of state and celebrities, including such criminals as Raila Odinga, Qaddafi and Clinton, among others.
http://daphnebarak.homestead.com/Heads-of-State.html
Yes, I did post that image several times a long time ago...cannot recall the source, but this website includes a story about the 1971 visit:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html
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