http://www.salon.com/2012/06/26/a_dream_debunked/
Republicans have tried but mostly failed to use David Maraniss’“Barack Obama: The Story” to prove the president told big lies in his memoir “Dreams From My Father” and in other accounts of his past. The official Republican National Committee site has compiled every possible discrepancy the book supposedly reveals, even charging (which Maraniss does not) that he stole his mother’s line that “baking cookies wasn’t exactly at the top of her priority list” from Hillary Clinton. If only Mark Penn had known that in 2008!In fact, what’s most noteworthy aren’t the discrepancies Maraniss found in Obama’s official story, but how many right-wing lies he debunked. The president was born in Hawaii. He is not a secret Muslim; in fact, his Kenyan father owed his education and his American sojourn to evangelical Christians. Those mysterious New York years? Not mysterious, just kind of dull. Which unsavory sponsor paid for his Ivy League education? Mostly his grandmother, along with some student loans.The most significant of Obama’s elisions and omissions – or “compressions” and “composites,” as he describes his departure from strict fact in his own memoir – have to do with race, and particularly his relationship with whiteness: his own, and that of his family and friends.
there is no truth the right won't try and corrupt. remember if their game was so tight why are they putting all kinds of road signs to sell "we the people" on our Pres.'s "tained past", only taint is on their aspirations to taint. the dream that was debunked was the right wing one to color him not American when in fact it's their actions and rhetoric that are not American.
