Interestingly, Obama did not dedicate Dreams From My Father to his mother, or to his father, Barack Senior, or to his Indonesian stepfather. Missing from the dedication are the grandparents who raised him in Hawaii, especially during the years his mother abandoned him to return to Indonesia to be with Lolo.
Revealingly, the autobiography opens with an epigraph from the Bible, 1 Chronicles 29:15. The words seem to capsulize Obama's experience of life as expressed in the book. "For we are strangers before them, and sojourners, as were all our fathers." Strangers in strange lands, if we adapt the title from Robert Heinlein's novel, is a phrase that somehow seems to sum up what Obama Junior is telling us about his life experience through his thirty-fourth year, when the autobiography first was published.
-p. 50, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D
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