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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.

» 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"


Comments

  • [1] nathan from HERE September 03, 2008 - 12:09PM

    Obama is bad.


  • [2] antonio from park slope September 03, 2008 - 10:47PM

    bad as in good....


  • [3] Leon Freilich from Park Slope September 06, 2008 - 10:51AM

    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


  • [4] B from ny ny January 21, 2009 - 12:48PM

    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of judgment, or more surprising, not being plugged in enough to subtleties, and therefore betraying his own better kept unpublished private sentiments and allegiances.


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