We seem to have a flurry of articles out these days which psychoanalyze or otherwise seek to "explain" President Barack Obama by discussing his father…and there's no doubt that Barack Hussein Obama, Sr was a pretty messed-up guy who had a lot of problems. I can't say for sure that the life of the father didn't in some way impact the son…but I think it's deeply (and probably deliberately) misleading to write about this topic and to not make clear that Senior didn't raise Junior. The future Chief Exec only met his father once…when the kid was ten. You'd never know that from some of the armchair analysts.
In his writings and speeches, Obama Jr has said that his old man didn't make much of an impression on him. I cannot imagine how anyone who wasn't close to either Obama could possibly be in a position to know otherwise…but I suppose if you want to slime our president, you could make up any sort of scenario about them and get someone to believe it.