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Barbara Maddox

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What Will It Take to Bring Obama Home? – The Visual Obama and the Actual Obama Disconnect – Moving Left – Part 17

By Barbara Maddox Guest Commentator

“Bring Obama ‘Home’ ”? Last I heard, President Obama and his family were quite comfortably ensconced in public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “Bring Obama ‘Home’” certainly cannot refer to some experience that it is imagined President Obama shares with the majority of black Americans. Few black Americans grow up in Indonesia; fewer still have…

“Bring Obama ‘Home’ ”? Last I heard, President Obama and his family were quite comfortably ensconced in public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “Bring Obama ‘Home’”…

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