9/4/2008: Michelle Obama Speaks of Barack; Fiction vs Fact:

Michelle Obama: “His family was so much like mine.”
Fact: Barack Obama’s father, a Harvard trained economist, fathered
eight children by four different women. Married one....the others????

Michelle Obama: “He was raised by grandparents who were working-class
folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to
pay the bills just like we did.”
Fact: One of the first two female vice presidents at Bank of Hawaii,
Madelyn Dunham, his grandmother, raised Barry Obama. She paid the
tuition to the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii. Barack Obama’s
mother, Ann Dunham Obama Sutoro, described as a fellow traveler, spent
Barack’s formative years studying anthropology in Indonesia and
helping thousands of poor women. She is credited with creating a
microfinance program there.

Michelle Obama: “And like my family, they scrimped and saved so that
he could have opportunities that they never had for themselves.”
Fact: Michelle’s family was middle class and Obama’s father advocated
an “active” program to achieve a classless society by removing the
economic disparities between black Africans and Asian and Europeans.