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COMMENTS: He Misses His Mother
On the human interest side, Lee Cowan filed an affecting profile of Barack Obama's parents for NBC's Family Ties series. His father, the elder Barack, who abandoned his wife and two-year-old son, remains in the candidate's thoughts as an example "of how not to live," as Cowan put it. Obama explained: "I watch myself for some of the things that I know ended up hurting him--too much pride, an inability to listen to other people." His mother Stanley Ann died in 1995. Cowan reminded us of Obama's reaction the first time his face appeared on the cover of Newsweek: "It makes me think of my mom and the fact that, you know, she is not around."
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