There's a new story on Barack Obama in the March 31 edition of Newsweek. It's a long one, seven pages long, and generally positive but in spite of what they say is two recent interviews with him, there's not too much new information on him and his life that most of his supporters who have delved into his history didn't already know.
They relate a couple of anecdotes from his life in Indonesia that flesh out his mother a little more and give us a better idea of how warm and generous she was.
He moved there with his idealistic mother—whom he has described as a "lonely witness for secular humanism"—when he was 6. The Asian archipelago was an eye-opener for a child who had been raised in the relative comforts of Hawaii. He didn't know what to make of the leper who came to his door, who had a hole where his nose was supposed to be and made a discomfiting "whistling sound" as he asked for food. He had to learn how to deal with street beggars of all types. Obama's bighearted mother gave easily.
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