Is Barack Obama an American? [View all]
Look at this steaming pile of rancid horseshit:
This is not another tiresome treatise on Barack Obama's birth certificate. He was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen.
Byron York writes in the Washington Examiner about a new biography of the president soon to be published by David Mariness, a Washington Post reporter. York describes a brief time in the early 1980s when the future president lived in New York after graduating from Columbia University. Obama at the time was questioning whether he was an American in the way he viewed the world and followed politics.
The sense of Obama's rootlessness with his own country is perhaps understandable, given his biography. He was born of a Kenyan father and an American mother and had spent part of his childhood in Indonesia where he had become absorbed in the local culture.
But the ambivalence Obama felt and might still well feel toward his American identify also seems to have informed his politics. In a now infamous speech in Strasbourg, France, Obama seemed to lecture his own country by accusing it of having "shown arrogance" toward the views of other countries, particularly in Europe, according to the U.K. Telegraph. As Austin Bay adds, Obama also was dismissive of American exceptionalism, stating, rather sarcastically, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
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http://news.yahoo.com/barack-obama-american-184000861.htmlThat imagined "ambivalence" that somehow makes him an alien in the eyes of RW morons is merely the acknowledgment of the fact that the real world exists outside of our borders & that we have to deal with it on it's own terms. Such a view makes him
A BETTER President because - given his background - he can really understand what the great majority of Americans (the 99%) actually goes through in their daily lives.
Better than that clueless aristocratic twit the GOP is putting up against him.
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