The Dysfunctional Obama
By Larry Johnson on August 11, 2008 at 10:53 AM in Barack Obama
What’s the deal with Barack Obama slipping to see his grandmother without his wife and children? The woman who really raised him gets to see him for an hour. She doesn’t see his children, her great-grandchildren, possibly the last time she might be able to see them. And the wife, Michelle, is AWOL.
What is going on here? If this were any other candidate serious questions would be asked about how he treats his family, especially for a candidate whose campaign is based on the storyline of his extraordinary personal history.
Is it Obama himself who doesn’t want his wife and children to see his grandmother, whom he dismissively called a “typical white person”? Or is it Michelle? Does she want nothing to do with the woman who raised her husband? Why does she keep her children away from their great-grandmother? Or does she cooperate with her husband in keeping them away?
One thing we know is that it is highly unlikely that it is the grandmother who doesn’t want to see her great-grandchildren.
We can only conclude that Obama’s official narrative has a lot of missing chapters in it. And the press corps isn’t asking the questions he would naturally ask of any other presidential candidate under these sort of circumstances.
What kind of moral values lead Obama to treat his grandmother so shabbily? And what’s the real story behind the brief one hour visit without the wife and children? Why so short and why so lonely?






















