Obama's Parents

Your parents are not your fault. But this is interesting.

I, for one, take the traditional view of why the good Senator would deliberately exclude of any dates, timeline, or other information about his parents' meeting, falling in love, and marriage from his autobiography — though he does, of course, include his date of birth. And he was right to do so, before he had reason to know that he would become a successful national figure whose life would be picked apart by the media for inconsistencies and fibs. The very quick divorce, hot on the heels of the already abandoned Ann Dunham finding out that she was in a polygamous marriage, suggests that she did a really admirable job of shielding her son from all sorts of harsh truths.