Dennis Prager argues he never truly knew Barack Obama despite his presidency, attributing aspects of his politics to being abandoned by his father. Prager offers a critical, personal take on what shaped Obama's worldview.
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When Barack Obama left office after 8 years, I remember saying on this show, this is the only president of my lifetime, one-term or two-term president, that I felt I did not know any better after one term or two terms than I did when he was elected. And I'm, I'm not less perceptive than the average individual. Maybe I'm even more, I don't know, but I'm not less. So my suspicion is that if I don't know somebody after 8 years, even if it's just through public lens— look, you know what people say to me more than any other single thing strangers say to me? And there isn't a day that I'm outside of my house that I'm not stopped by strangers. Dennis, I feel like I know you. To which I always respond, you do. How many people say to Barack Obama, I feel like I know you? So my theory was there's nothing there, which I still believe. And by the way, it's not shocking because when you're abandoned by your father and you're a boy It's, it's different. Now, I'm talking about fathers who die, or fathers who divorce and stay in, in a child's life. I'm talking about fathers who abandon their sons like his father did. It often leaves an unformed boy, and he's filled it with left-wing Gobbledygook.