http://www.jossip.com/occasions-for-barack-to-use-his-bad-boy-voice-20090206/ Obama from back in the day. Incidentally, I'm reading his book (Dreams From My Father) and it's a pretty good read. Regardless of your political persuasion, it's a fascinating look into race. Besides, how often do you get the chance to read a bio of a president written years before he ever had any real hope of becoming president?
Oh, I'm pretty sure he had hopes of being president when he and Bill Ayres sat down to write that tome.
Yeah, I'm sure he and Ayers coldly calculated in 1995 that revealing that he snorted coke and was a pothead was a fantastic career move to escalate him to the White House in 2008. Not to mention all the amazing acts of shallowness, greed and stupidity he documents himself performing in his life, because that sort of embarassing confessional is a sure way to reach the highest office in the land. Yeesh. If you really think this book was a carefully conceived stepping stone designed to get him in the White House, you are mistaken, brother. It's well-written and thoughtful, but it's not the sort of thing I'm sure I'd want my kids to read about me, let alone my constituency. Truth is that when he wrote it he was just trying to capitalize on the very minor celebrity he gained the Harvard Law Review. The book by most accounts was a failure until his recent publicity, and from what I've read so far, if I were managing his campaign a year ago I'd have wished it had never been written. His campaign was all about his Kansas roots, which really doesn't have much to do with this book.
BTW--I'm curious as to what you thought about the racial experiences he had in childhood that he documents in the book, maxie. Did you feel he was just making it up? Did it strike you as phony? Is it badly written? Overrated? Shallow? I'm curious about what you thought.
In several posts on here, you've portrayed "Dreams From My Father" as some sort of self-promotional political stepping stone. I'm actually reading the book now, and I'm wondering, "What the hell was maxie talking about all this time, because it's clearly not what he was describing." Then, once again, you make such a remark. I call you out on it. You call your recent post a joke. Huh. I don't get it.
Anyway, I guess I'm testy about this particular book because I think it's pretty meaningful, and it's a fantastic insight into what made a politician who he is today. Most of the political autobiographies I've read have been pretty self-promotional (as, I suspect, I'll find his second book to be when I read it.) From what I've read so far (I'm about 2/3 through it), I think people will look on his first book as one of the best political autobiographies of all time, partially because it was written before he had any realistic hope of becoming president. So it has the ring of honesty and introspection about it you just don't see in career politicians.
Or, as an alternative idea, I spent the night with my wife and kid. It always amuses me to watch you wriggle on the hook.
How convenient it must be to reply with, "its just a joke". The it was a joke card is a convenient one, at anyone's disposal at all times.
For example, every time you step up to a urinal. Sorry, but the Bill Ayres line was a dead giveaway. It's not my fault you were too dense to get it.
Because you've been full of satire when discussing Obama's affiliations in the past. Any jab you can get in your all over.
"Sorry-ass motherfucker . . . ignorant motherfucker . . . You ain't my bitch, ***** . . . " ??? Gee, I'm so glad we elected this guy. He's really going to class up the White House.
It wasn't satire. It was a warning. As for any jab I can get in, I'll prove you right by mentioning how embarrassing it must be for Gonzaga that you still don't know your homophones.
