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No one is attacking his parents. Heck even if he was an illegitimate child, he would join the ranks of millions. As for your perceived racism, that is your problem.
You see a great man. I see a guy who did drugs, was sent to the best schools in Hawaii, hated the white man, got a free ride to Harvard on Affirmative Action, condemned the grandparents who raised him, belittled his mother and adored a father who left him, has no experience running a company or a state, and now since he was the 'in fad', he got to be president.
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As to his actions as a youngster, our last two presidents, and probably most of our future presidents did drugs when they were younger. So did I and most people I know. I'm glad to see you acknowledge he did go to school in Hawaii and not as some of the nutcase right wing bunch that accuse him of going to some medrassia (I don't know how to spell that word), but in a lot of the other respects you mentioned , I don't see that as totally different from most in the past who became president, or most any other higher position as far as that is concerned- good schools, gotten into by whatever means avaliable whether it was AA or Daddy Warbucks.
I really don't know where you get the grandparent/mother hating part, but I haven't read his book, so maybe you got it there. That is not the picture I have got from listening to him, in fact the opposite, but again , I haven't read his book.
I don't know that I see him as a great man, but I do admire him, or anyone else that started from common, humble beginnings, and achieved a good statue in life. One thing I admired about Clinton.
Well, I don't know what experience running a company could possibly be beneficial to running a country, I guess running a state would be beneficial, but the last x gov we had sure did a horrible job.
I think so far he has done a good, not great, job. There are some things I disagree with him on, but such is life.