Biden, discussing Obama in his acceptance speech:

He was the son of a single mom, a single mom who had to struggle to support her son and her kids. But she raised him. She raised him to believe in America.

Upon reading “raised him to believe in America,” I recalled an interesting comment from Obama’s mother, while she was in Indonesia, that the candidate mentioned in his book Dreams From My Father:

“Looking back, I’m not sure [Obama’s stepfather] Lolo ever fully understood what my mother was going through … why the things he was working so hard to provide for her seemed only to increase the distance between them … He landed a job in the government relations department of an American oil company. … Sometimes I would overhear him and my mother arguing in their bedroom, usually about her refusal to attend his company dinner parties, where American businessmen from Texas and Louisiana would slap Lolo’s back and boast about the palms they had greased to obtain the new offshore drilling rights, while their wives complained to my mother about the quality of Indonesian help. He would ask her how it would look for him to go alone, and remind her that these were her own people, and my mother’s voice would rise to almost a shout.”
“They are not my people!”

I suppose she meant she’s not like those Americans. Her people are only certain types of Americans.