Populist Reform of the Democratic Party
In reply to the discussion: Thoughts: Why is Pres. Obama shoving the TPP down our throats? [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)I don't think Dunham ever married Obama. For one thing, Barack Obama, Sr. had a wife in Africa before he ever came to America and he did not divorce her, at least not before the President was born, if ever.
The alleged marriage and alleged divorce get bandied about a lot, but I don't know that either actually occurred. If there was a marriage, was it legal in the US, given he had a wife in Africa at the time?
Plus, when Palin's daughter became pregnant out of wedlock, Obama said families were off limits and referenced his mother, but without explaining why he referenced her in that connection. I thought it was because she, too, had been a teen who had become pregnant out of wedlock.
I don't think it's relevant to discussion of the TPP or even to discussion of what kind of outlook the President grew up with.
To me, this is exactly the kind of derailing a thread gets when people who are not "like minded" with members of this group, like Fred Sanders, barge into the group to defend Obama's reputation, whether it's relevant to the thread or not. Sigh.