Obama had a diverse background. He was born in Hawaii, to
parents from Kansas. They separated when he was two years old,
and divorced in 1964. Instead of the common stable family and
charmed life that all previous Presidents have had, Obama was
forced to create an image of his absent father that according to
what was told him by his mother and parents, whom he was raised
with. (Newsweek) The image was partially accurate, and part of
the image that a young boy needed to construct for himself to
feel he was a stable and functional human being. In this way,
Obama also represented a large increased segment of America, the
increasing amount of people who identify with the have-nots of
society, because he was not in a happy nuclear family where
everything was peachy keen like in the ’50’s. Obama was under
the fundamental psychological hardships of his father being
absent, providing an affinity with so many more Americans, who
found themselves in the middle of single parent or broken homes
in this country across the