Makes you wonder if this person, Obama, has enough grasp on reality that he can not paint false hopes/dreams as reality. It seems to show a deep psychological need to have a father figure in his life that was positive.
Revealed: Obama's dad polygamist, alcoholic
Parent not hero portrayed in 'Dreams from My Father'
In his autobiographical book "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama paints a heroic picture of his father as having emerged from a poor Kenyan village, where he was nothing more than a simple goat herder, to become a Harvard-educated economist, destined to return to
Unfortunately, the reality is much bleaker than the tale Obama tells in his book.
In truth, Barack Obama senior, Obama's father, was a polygamist who had already abandoned one wife and child in Africa when he met Obama's mother in
After being educated at Harvard, Obama senior returned to Africa, abandoning Obama and his mother, to live the life of a chronic alcoholic who ultimately killed himself in his second drink-induced car accident, while driving drunk on the streets of
