Someone really should take the keyboard away:
We all know the emotional stress that settles on a child when one father abandons the child. What happens when TWO fathers abandon the same child, as happened with Obama? I mean Obama’s mother who took husband number two, Lolo Soetoro when Obama was six. He was an Indonesian student with whom she moved to Jakarta. Obama relates in his autobiography that she was shocked to discover Soetoro was a male chauvinist. So she divorced him and sent 10-year-old Barack, Jr. to live with her parents in Honolulu while she and his half sister stayed in Indonesia. All the while Obama’s polygamous natural father takes up again with his first wife, then marries another white American woman and adds a mistress, eventually fathering eight kids by four women.
Spider-web complications for genealogists and psychologists to work on for the prospective 44th president. Not exactly like George Washington marrying the widow Martha Custis, is it?
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Odds are even my bringing up this chaotic background will be assailed as “unfair” even “racist.” That’s standard operating procedure for Obama’s aficionados. You can’t criticize anything about him…his wife, his religion, the size of his ears, his announcing that he has traveled to all 57 states in the Union, his statement that Israel is Israel’s best friend (which had McCain said this would be written widely as an example of a senior moment). Now they will howl it’s unfair to report his murky, very murky, familial past.
But the question remains: How much emotional stability can accrue when you come from a mad house non-family background like his? When two fathers have abandoned you? This hasn’t been reported very much.
Well I just did.
I believe the end needs some heavy dark classical music playing to signal how ominous it is to have a family situation that isn’t simply a nuclear family.
It doesn’t make Roeser a racist, it makes him a twit. By his standards my Republican sister who attends Willowbrook is dangerously unstable because my mother had three husbands at different times while she was growing up. He would be the first and only person to make such a suggestion about her. The American family seldom was the nuclear family that conservatives pretend existed other than in a short period of time after World War II. Families always were messy and while divorce wasn’t as common, simply taking off occurred frequently. Two of my grand parents had nuclear families, two did not. I would argue that the two who did not were the strongest and most committed to their families. Both of my parents were raised in nuclear families and yet, not so good at the nuclear family. My sister and I were brought up in non-nuclear families and amongst our cousins on my Mom’s side, we are the only ones married with children. Funny thing about psychoanalysis–it often tells more about the person trying it instead of who is being analyzed.