Obama

[Devil's Advocate]

So here's a theory:

1) Obama never got over his father leaving him.

2) Nearly all of Obama's actions and policies can be understood through this lens of abandonment.

3) Since Obama's father represents his black half, Obama has always been ill at ease about not being black enough or close enough to the black community.

I find this better describes Obama's actions and motivations then any political theory I can think of.

[Pseudolus]

:duh:

Dude wrote a whole book about it. Not exactly super sleuth work here.

[Browncoat]

Well, someone wrote it. He may have helped.

[Baron Von Raschke]

What it doesn't explain is all the leaders (and people in general) with very worldqviews who haven't been who aren't mixed raced and haven't been abandoned by their fathers.

[Pseudolus]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-obama-became-black/2012/06/14/gJQA8CnKdV_story.html

^^ excerpt of the new Obama bio by Maraniss. Haven't read it yet, but seems likely relevant to this thread's interests.

[Jack]

I find all this pop-psycology nonsense to be, well, nonsense.