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Obama's Missing Mother

By The Daily Dish
Jan 7 2008, 7:04 AM ET

A reader writes:

You know what makes me sad? The fact that Obama's mother is not here to see this. Imagine the racial difficulties she faced, in terms of a white woman having a "black" child in the Sixties. It was nothing like today. Nothing. Imagine her pride today. Her vindication even.



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