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Title: Obama says he grew up less privileged than rivals
Source: http://www.reuters.com/
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0143937020080501
Published: May 1, 2008
Author: Andy Sullivan
Post Date: 2008-05-01 11:27:17 by robin
Keywords: None
Views: 1116
Comments: 71

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday said he had grown up in less privileged circumstances than his rivals as he fought a perception among some voters that he is "elitist."

In an interview on NBC's "Today Show," Obama sought to explain a series of missteps that have dogged his candidacy over the past month and led some voters to conclude that he is out of touch.

"The irony is, I think it is fair to say that both Michelle and I grew up in much less privileged circumstances than either of my two potential opponents," Obama said in an interview with his wife, Michelle, at his side.

Obama's Kenyan father was largely absent from his life as a child, and his mother raised him with the help of his grandparents.

His rival for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, grew up in an affluent suburb of Chicago as the daughter of a small-business owner. The Republican candidate for the November presidential election, John McCain, is the son and grandson of Navy admirals.

Obama's front-runner status for the Democratic nomination has eroded in recent weeks amid a firestorm over racially charged remarks by his former pastor and his own comments at a San Francisco fund-raiser that small-town voters are "bitter" and "cling" to guns and religion.

"The comments I made in San Francisco at the end of a very long day were very poorly phrased," Obama said. "I should have said 'angry and frustrated' instead of 'bitter.' I should have said, people 'rely on' their religious faith during these times of trouble, instead of 'cling to.'"

Obama said he did not immediately denounce his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, when his incendiary comments were first made public because of his personal ties to the man who presided over his marriage and the baptism of his two children.

"I thought it was important to give him the benefit of the doubt because if I had wanted to be politically expedient I would have distanced myself and denounced him right away," Obama said.

Obama said the criticism is inevitable, given his international background and status as the first black who has a good chance of winning the White House.

"Let's be honest, here I am an African American named Barack Obama who's running for president. I mean, that's a leap for folks," he said.

(Editing by Jackie Frank)

(To read more about the U.S. political campaign, visit Reuters "Tales from the Trail: 2008" online at blogs.reuters.com/trail08/) Subscribe to *Obama 2008*

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#42. To: robin (#0)

Barack Obama on Thursday said he had grown up in less privileged circumstances than his rivals...

... and this means... absolutely nothing. He was never in want, and his confusion about who he 'was' led him to the commie left. Eff this fraud, and be done with him.

Old Fud  posted on  2008-05-01   21:51:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: Old Fud (#42)

... and this means... absolutely nothing. He was never in want, and his confusion about who he 'was' led him to the commie left. Eff this fraud, and be done with him.

Oh no! Old Fud, don't you know you are not supposed to point out the obvious? All of Obama's true believers will now denounce you as a racist. Oh the humanity!

James Deffenbach  posted on  2008-05-02   9:40:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: James Deffenbach, Old Fud, *Obama Reality Check* (#59)

... and this means... absolutely nothing. He was never in want, and his confusion about who he 'was' led him to the commie left. Eff this fraud, and be done with him.

Oh no! Old Fud, don't you know you are not supposed to point out the obvious? All of Obama's true believers will now denounce you as a racist. Oh the humanity!


A poster at Politico, took the time to pull some excerpts from Obama's books and posted in the comments section of this piece: www.politico.com/new s/stories/0508/10031.html

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students, the foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) .

“I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE.” Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added, caps. in original) .

"The emotion between the races could never be pure..... the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart." Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) .

“That hate hadn’t gone away,” [Obama wrote, blaming] “white people— some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.” Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) .

“I had grown accustomed, everywhere, to suspicions between the races.” Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) . “[The globe is a place] where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere.... That's the world! On which hope sits.” Barack Hussein Obama (quoting Wright), “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) .

“[Obama vowed that he would] never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm [Malcolm X], DuBois and Mandela.” Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) .

“In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school…. I studied the Koran….” Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) .

“We are no longer just a Christian nation,” “We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.” Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) .

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Barack Hussein Obama, “The Audacity of Hope” (emp. added) .

“Lolo [Obama's step father] followed a brand of Islam.... I looked to Lolo for guidance.” Barack Hussein Obama, “The Audacity of Hope” (emp. added) .

“The person who made me proudest of all, though, was [half brother] Roy .. He converted to Islam.” Barack Hussein Obama, “Dreams From My Father” (emp. added) .

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#61. To: Peppa (#60)

Oh no! Obama a racist? And in his own words too!?!?! Oh the humanity, I don't know if I can go on with this latest blow. I am shocked, shocked let me tell you!

James Deffenbach  posted on  2008-05-02 10:40:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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