Why might Barack Obama, when he was a mature 27 year old, Ivy League college graduate, who had majored in Political Science ...
- who was born in America and had an American, Christian mother and a Kenyan, Muslim father
- who had an Indonesian, Muslim stepfather after his mother divorced his father and remarried
- who had moved to Indonesia, a highly predominately Muslim country, with his mother and stepfather at the impressionable young age of approximately 6 years old
- who had written about his interest in becoming President of the United States as far back as elementary school in Indonesia, in a private school
- who was educated in that Muslim country, during a significant part of his formative years, ages 9 and 10, in an Indonesian, state-run elementary school
- .....in which the student body was predominately Muslim
- .....in which the teachers were predominantly Muslim
- .....in which the religion of Islam was part of the curriculum, including Koranic studies
- .....in which homework assignments most likely included studies relating to Islam, and
- .....in which homework assignments most likely included studying the Koran
- who returned to America at the age of approximately
10 to spend the rest of his childhood, formal education, and
reaching maturity, in America, up to 27 years of age
- who traveled to Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country, when in college
- who was a graduate of Columbia University with a
major in Political Science
- who began to work as a summer associate at a
Chicago law firm with Michelle Robinson, a Christian woman, as his mentor, who later became his wife and the mother of his children, and
- who was a first year law student at Harvard Law School
