Obama: A New Yorker?

Obama: A New Yorker?
Barack Obama with his grandparents in New York City, when Obama was a student at Columbia University. (AP/Obama for America)
Obama: A New Yorker?
Barack Obama with his grandparents in New York City, when Obama was a student at Columbia University. (AP/Obama for America)

Obama: A New Yorker?

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A New York Times editorial once boasted of their native son that FDR’s time in the White House would inspire men one hundred years after his death to thank God for that presidency. And now they’re trying to take our guy?

New York Magazine
recently tried to claim Obama as belonging to the Big Apple. Eight Forty-Eight’s Alison Cuddy wanted to find out why Jennifer Senior – a contributing editor at New York Magazine – would try such a thing. In typical New York fashion, Senior says, “Relax.”