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Old 03-31-2007, 11:17 PM
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Most likely the picture is politically motivated. It's plays to the black vote, and it gives him that underdog image so many people fall for.

At the same time, however, the notion that he is hiding away his white grandma is pretty far fetched. I mean, was anyone even asking to see her before this? And when has it ever been par for the course for presidential candidates to parade their grandparents in front of the cameras.
There never was a multiracial candidate before, and Obama has portrayed himself as black, unlike many americans like him who insist on (more accurately) describing themselves as multi-racial. Obama though, no fool, realizes the maximum campaign advantages to himself in identifying himself as black to blacks, and black to the white liberal establishment, ironically adopting the jim crow edict that "one drop" of black "blood" makes you black. In fact, he is half black and half white.
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