Oh, but she did lie. Neither she nor Barack were poor. He attended a very tony Hawaiian private school, she went to private school as well. She tried to make his grandmother out to be just an ordinary teller or something, overlooked because men were promoted over her, yeah, down for the struggle.
I think she should have stressed her husband’s true background, he sounds a lot worse that way. Born to a young girl, deserted by his bio-dad, mom divorced and remarried, moved to Indonesia, adopted, became a Muslim, Mom left step-dad and send Barry back to Hawaii to his grandparents, never sees his mother again, sees his father just once in his whole life, has an identity crisis when half-sister tells him his father is a violent drunkard, goes to Kenya to find the dreams of his father and succeeds, comes back to America and aligns himself with terrorists, communists, and America-haters.
Makes a better story than Barry driving a rusted-out beater, wearing shoes too small (maybe they also had cardboard to cover the holes?), and picking furniture out of dumpsters. Did Barry take Michelle to the auto-mat for a 5 c piece of pie for their first date? LOL