My husband never felt particularly disturbed that he and his father were different in that area, so again, we were on our own.

CNN: Circumcising our son -- How do we decide?

He's -- he and his father have worked hard, they've built three or four different small businesses, and he fears that there's no one in your administration that understands what it means to go to work on Monday and have to make a payroll on Friday.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions from Senate Democrats

Sort of a Roots-like effort to find out more about his family and his father, who was dead by then, and his coming to terms with a lot of things that were different about him and about Kenya, and some things that he learned about his father that were also disturbing.

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