According to Obama's book, the man who scared his grandma was a dangerous panhandler.

Hm. The more you read, the more you learn...

So, in summary, let's look at how Obama smeared his own elderly but very much alive grandmother, calling her:

"a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."

Well, no, according to Obama's 1995 book, it is not at all true that she "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street." Instead, she once confessed her fear of one aggressive black beggar who didn't pass by her but instead confronted her, demanded money, and then gave her -- an intelligent, level-headed woman who had worked her way up to a mid-level corporate management position -- good reason to believe he would have violently mugged her if her bus hadn't pulled up.

If this was some doofus politician like Bush or Biden who retold the story in a misleading fashion, you might view it as just their usual struggle with using the English language to get across what they really kind of, sort of mean. But Obama is so superb with words that it's perfectly reasonable to hold him accountable for choosing to slander his own living grandmother for his political advantage.

You know that I can't be the only person researching this.

Truly heavy sigh.

Edited to add: See:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=334x8953

:hi:

they 'know everything' because 'obama said so.'

sometimes i think they deserve to have him be a one-term screw-up president who betrays all they think he is.