Barack Obama
Monday, November 22, 2004
Senator Barack Obama from Illinois discusses his recent election, and looks back at this life so far: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
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Events: Barack Obama will be giving a talk, taking questions from the audience, and signing books on Tuesday, November 23 at 7pm at the Union Square Barnes & Noble
Music: Soundtrack to A Civil Action, music by Danny Elfman: "Something to Prove" / "Civil Theme"
» Read an excerpt of Dreams from My Father in the Reading Room
» More on Barack Obama
» Visit our Guest Picks page to find out about the books, films, and music that move Obama
Events: Barack Obama will be giving a talk, taking questions from the audience, and signing books on Tuesday, November 23 at 7pm at the Union Square Barnes & Noble
Music: Soundtrack to A Civil Action, music by Danny Elfman: "Something to Prove" / "Civil Theme"
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Comments [4]
Obama is good, but he's slightly off the mark, just enough to make you not want to canonize him just yet -- for instance, Rick Warren, chose to Recite 3 different names for his personal savior. Did the maudlin quality of his admission even outdo the inappropriate nature of his specifically detailing his own idol worship? Yet, worse than that, it was Obama who picked this car wreck. And we had to listen to it. I don't think that any other presidents would have allowed it. The fact that Obama can overlook it, or miss it when approving such saccharine, evolving into nausea inducing inappropriately offensive dogma, shows perhaps what will be one of his biggest upcoming flaws: either a colossally poor lack of judgment, or more surprising, not being plugged in enough to subtleties, and therefore betraying his own better kept unpublished private sentiments and allegiances.
STAMP OF APPROVAL
Obama's like the postage stamp
"USA First-Class Forever"
Except for this: he won't be licked--
American voters are too clever
bad as in good....
Obama is bad.
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