Time Magazine profiled Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s
mother calling her “at least a dozen things . . . a teen mother who
later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who
was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with
her work; a romantic pragmatist, if such a thing is possible.” The
magazine -- which detailed her international, multicultural life --
quoted Senator Obama calling his mother someone who “wasn’t comfortable
seeing her life confined to a certain box.” (April 2008)