I posted yesterday about how the right is attacking Barack Obama’s past — dude allegedly was educated in a madrassa for a few years as a child in Indonesia — and how it actually makes me like him more. I called Obama’s campaign to see if I could get some information on the situation beyond what’s in Obama’s books:
Dreams of My Father:
In Indonesia, I’d spent 2 years at a Muslim school, 2 years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I’d pretend to close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended.
The Audacity of Hope:
Without the money to go to the international school that most expatriate children attended, I went to local Indonesian schools and ran the streets with the children of farmers, servants, tailors, and clerks.
But I couldn’t get a call back. As it turns out, Media Matters has a very thorough run-down of the whole situation, including a description of the ways Fox News has inflamed the story. Take a gander.
