Clearly the Right Choice

Sage advice that I received early on was to look carefully at the mother of anyone I intended to spend the rest of my life with. While Jean James was not especially impressed with the skinny wannabe hippie that eventually married her daughter, I saw in her a woman of integrity and compassion that I could not help but respect as the mother who raised and nurtured the love of my life. I’ve already expressed the great love I have for my own mother. And so it is that I present The Story of Barack Obama’s Mother as reported by Amanda Ripley in this week’s TIME as further reason to elect this man our next president.