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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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Pages: 464
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ISBN: 0307455874
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.04960730092
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Publication Date: July 15, 2008
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 CONGRATULATIONS, MR. PRESIDENT!!! October 10, 2009
Ashtar Command (Stockholm, Sweden)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Congratulations from the Ashtar Command to the Nobel Peace Prize.
:-)
Complete and utter BS... October 7, 2009
Patriot Reader (Idaho)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Hope & change"....yeah, to ruin America and turn it into a third world country.
The books entire theme is that socialism will save America - and the sheep gobble it down hook, line, and sinker.
This is not a biography. October 5, 2009
Seth (USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I saw some people leaving negative reviews because they read this book wanting to know more about "where Obama came from". This is not that book - while it does include anecdotes from his life, it's about his ideas.
That said... the man speaks sense. His book is incredibly thoughtful and levelheaded and, well, sensible. He talks about poverty, morality, race, and other issues in a way that doesn't seek to lay the blame on one group of people - rather he acknowledges things that both sides have done to hamper progress, and how partisan attitudes and people's unwillingness to see the other's viewpoint have led us to an inability to compromise. In the chapter about race, he discusses the reluctance on the part of many white Americans' to support policy intended to help minorities (and he *doesn't* attribute this unwillingness to nothing more than racism.)
He does about the same thing with every other issue he covers in the book - addresses the causes and then lays out some ideas for how to help alleviate the problem. He never goes into exacting detail, but he does recognize the importance of approaching problems and finding solutions without letting partisan feelings cloud one's judgment - you can't just say that "this is a bad idea because (the opposing party) supports it."
And on top of that, he's just a good writer. The "policy-discussion" parts are divided up with relevant anecdotes from his life and political career - for example, he opens up the chapter about race with a short vignette of Rosa Parks' funeral, which he attended. In the chapter entitled "Opportunity" he talks about sponsored a proposal which would have ended the practice of letting senators fly on private jets for the cost of a first-class plane ticket, and how he decided to stop flying on private jets after the measure failed.
This segued into an anecdote about his first flight around the country afterwards - he admits that while his self-imposed ban was the right thing to do, the trip wasn't so enjoyable ("The traffic to O'Hare was terrible. When I got there, the flight to Memphis had been delayed. A kid spilled orange juice on my shoe.") But in the very next paragraph he tells about a man he met while waiting in line who told him that he "hoped Congress would do something about stem-cell research this year." The guy explained that he had early-stage Parkinson's disease and a three-year-old son who he would probably never get to play ball with because of his condition. The guy said that while it was probably too late for him, it wasn't too late to keep people in the future from going through the things he was going through. Obama ends this part with the line "These are the stories you miss, I thought to myself, when you fly on a private jet." These little detours make the whole thing much more readable that it would have been as a book that was 100% about politics and policy. Overall, it's an excellent read - and if you have the means to buy it, borrow it, or read it in the bookstore on the sly, I would highly recommend that you do so.
If you like this book, you will love "The Formula One" by Jesse E. Johnson. October 4, 2009
J. Johnson
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you like this book, you will love "The Formula One" by Jesse E. Johnson.
Great Service October 2, 2009
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