WHAT A HEEL!: Obama’s Family Values
Many pundits have commented on how presidential aspirant Barack Obama (D-IL) treated his grandmother - the white one who raised him after his black father abandoned her daughter and their young son, who was repaid by getting called out as a racist before a national TV audience and again in a radio interview with Angelo Cataldi on Philly station 610 WIP (“[s]he is a typical white person … there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way). But as shabbily as Obama treated his 85-year old maternal grandmother – ailing and alone in
Before Obama lectures the rest of us on our Christian obligations to the poor, he ought to remember that charity begins at home. Or is that something his spiritual advisor Rev. Jeremiah Wright forgot to teach him?
Editorial Note: Writing in Slate, the inimitable Christopher Hitchens observes: “You often hear it said, of some political or other opportunist, that he would sell his own grandmother if it would suit his interests. But you seldom, if ever, see this notorious transaction actually being performed, which is why I am slightly surprised that Obama got away with it so easily. (Yet why do I say I am surprised? He still gets away with absolutely everything.)”
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