Barack Obama raised by a single mother and grandmother (said during tonight's debate)

Hmmmm really? His statement imples that he was a poor underpriviledged child who barely got by. His biography on wikipedia says otherwise.

Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr., of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas.[2] His parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.[3] They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.[4] After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old.[2] He then returned to Honolulu to live with his mother's family while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade until his graduation in 1979.[5] Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.[6] He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[7]

Maybe the Puhanou school was a disadvantaged school in Honolulu's roughest neighborhood. Oooops that wouldn't be correct either -

Punahou School, formerly known as Oahu College, is a private, co-educational, nonsectarian college preparatory school located in Honolulu in the U.S. State of Hawaii. With about 3,700 students attending the school, in kindergarten through the twelfth grade, it is the largest independent school west of the Mississippi River in the United States.[1] In 2006, Punahou School was ranked as the nation's "greenest" school in America.[2]The student body is diverse, with student selection based on both academic and non-academic considerations.[3] In 2005, its sports program was ranked by Sports Illustrated as the fourth best in the country.[4]

Along with academics and athletics, Punahou also offers visual and performing arts programs. Students have access to a jewelry studio, a pottery studio, a photography darkroom, and glass-blowing facilities. The Punahou marching band goes on a trip once every four years, and most recently they participated in the 2007 Rose Bowl Parade, and the student yearbook, The Oahuan, has won national awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association[citation needed] and the American Scholastic Press Association[5], including the first Columbia Gold to be awarded in the State for the 2002 Oahuan[citation needed].

Tuition is $16,675 for the 2008-2009 school year[6][7], not including optional and mandatory fees. Tuition charges do not cover the entire cost of the education of a student, and this "deficit" is met by the school's endowment.[8]

Doesn't quite match with what he implied in his statement.