Obama's expatriate years
Surprisingly little attention has paid to the crucial years Barack Obama spent growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 1967 to 1971, ages 6 to 10 in his life. These formative years, when a child first spends significant time in the wider world beyond his family environment, must have taught him many lessons about America, some of them very unpleasant, given the particular situation of his family. It would have been brutally difficult for any child, including young Barry Soetoro as he was then known, to have been uprooted from Honolulu, where his mother raised him as a single mom (aided...
Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
Tags: Barack Obama, Expatriate, Family Environment, Formative Years, Honolulu, Jakarta Indonesia, Significant Time, Single Mom, X27