Two nights ago I had terrible insomnia. It was the kind of thing that sneaks up on you, lying in bed for hours, finally falling asleep, only to wake up 30 minutes later to repeat the cycle. The next day, try as I might, I could not get my forebrain to wake up. My mind was going, but the lines of code swam around on the page.
So I gave the day to learning the answers that many people posed to my last entry, which was less about Barack Obama and more about myself and the realization that I had a responsibility to participate, at least on the lowest level, with our political process. Still, people couldn’t help but pick up on the name, Obama, and to ask what it is that makes this person different, what it is that’s generating all this excitement in people.
I have to imagine it’s a lot like people watching from the sidelines of coffee houses like Zoka, as Dells, Gateways, and HPs give way to MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and the new MacBook Air. It’s confusing and a little annoying, this feeling that everyone is onto something and dad-gum if you can’t figure out what all the fuss is about. When you try to ask, all you get is passion, but what, you can’t help but wonder, drives that passion?
I started with Obama’s second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” commissioned by its publisher after Barack won his congressional seat and gave his now-famous keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, for many the one bright spot in the midst of a divided nation and a Bush re-election. Then I moved on to “Dreams from my Father, his first book, an autobiography commissioned before Barack got into politics, upon his becoming the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Of “Hope,” I will speak just briefly. It’s my hope it can be read by anyone who’s unsure that this is the man to represent us, which is to say, America. It lays it all out, from who Obama is as a person, his beliefs, and the most rational analysis of our country’s problems I’ve ever heard, complete with very real, very workable solutions to those problems. Perhaps best of all, both audiobooks are read by Obama himself, so it’s quite literally as if Obama is asking you to give him six hours of your time so he can tell you everything.
Still, while I hope people will give “Hope” a chance, It’s too much even for me to ask that you’ll also sit through “Dreams.” That’s a shame. For me, having always supported Obama, listening to his thoughts and plans in “Hope” is like listening to myself. Obama nails my own diplomatic personality and my own beliefs on the importance of reason and rationality so thoroughly, but his childhood was little more than an assumption on my part, and an assumption I had wrong.
I knew he grew up in Hawaii, but spent some time in Indonesia. He went to Punahou, the private school for rich white kids I walked past on my way to Roosevelt public high school. He left the islands and went to Harvard for a law degree before ending up a successful politician in Illinois. I imagined a life of education made possible by privilege. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Much like my wife and I, his parents met while students at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Barack senior was a foreign student from Kenya, a character who lived larger than life in all those who remembered him. He had coal black skin, a deep baritone voice, and a British accent. Even in Honolulu’s melting pot culture, he must have cut quite a figure.
Unfortunately, Obama senior’s father, Hussein Obama, took issue with the marriage, feeling his son was neglecting his obligations — to say nothing of his first wife — back home. He threatened to interfere with Obama’s student visa, forcing him to return to Kenya, alone. Family and other pressures became too great a strain, and the marriage ended in divorce.
Barack’s mother was no rich white girl. Her parents had moved to Hawaii before statehood, representing as it did a new frontier, some place to turn their lives around, and a chance to explore the liberal ideals that often conflicted with their midwest upbringing. Far from the life of privilege I imagined, Obama grew up like I did, solidly working class, which in Hawaii means being part of the underclass. Their majority is tainted by the fear that all they have, they have because of the hard work and good luck of their ancestors. They never shake the feeling they’re one roll of the cosmic dice from losing it all.
A few years later, Barack’s mother remarried another UH student, this one a kind-hearted Indonesian national. When he was recalled to Indonesia, the pattern seemed to be repeating itself, but this time, before things could go to hell, Barack and his mother packed up and moved to Jakarta. At first things there seemed nice, but when people didn’t think he was listening, Barack was able to piece together the truth. His step-father hadn’t wanted to return to Indonesia just then. His passport had been revoked by the revolutionary government. All foreign students had been recalled and interrogated. The lucky ones were forced into service. The unlucky ones were never seen again.
Barack’s mother knew if he was to have a future, it would be in America. She woke him up at 4 in the morning for English lessons before heading to the Indonesian public school. Finally, she sent him back to Honolulu to live with her parents. Demonstrable intelligence isn’t enough to get into Punahou, so Obama’s family pulled every string, called in every favor, to get him in. Obama, for his part, did what most kids do when they get into Punahou — he became an asshole.
Haha! See, the joke is that people who go to Punahou are assholes, because they’re the rich white kids in my neighborhood, the elite school that found its rivalry with my school to be beneath it. I’m not saying the adolescent Obama wasn’t an asshole. He was a teenage male with an outsider complex unable to appreciate the beauty and the multiculturalism all around him. I’ve been in that position. I’ve been that asshole.
Personally, I think highly of this part of the story. The mediocre student who’s more concerned with getting high than using the advantages set before him. I think it makes him human, I think it makes him honest, and I think it makes it easy and believable to understand everything that happened next. Being a black man in Hawaii and thinking you know what racism is, then going to college in Los Angeles and seeing real racism. Moving to New York, then to Chicago, where the segregationist traditions of Jim Crow continued into my lifetime.
I don’t think most people in this country have experienced real racism. Oh, sure, a lot of people have a racist story, but it’s a unique experience coming from a place where race is a very open topic, but where real racism is almost completely absent, then moving to a place where people who look like one side of your family hate anyone who looks like the other side of your family, and you’re just stuck in the middle, unable to join the oppressor, but unable to really hate him either.
Obama worked as a neighborhood organizer. At fist he was mistrusted by everyone, too black for one side, too white for the other. Even those he was trying to help politely told him he didn’t know how things were done and that he would do very well to pack up and take his ivy-league ass back to the suburbs. Still, he persisted, learning the ropes, until people actually started answering his phone calls and his organization finally started to help people.
In order to increase his effectiveness, he applied for law school, eventually winning a scholarship to Harvard, but not before stopping by Kenya to pay respects at the grave of his father and grandfather. From there, the rest is history. Obama the organizer became Obama the civil rights attorney, then Obama the state legislator, then Obama the congressman, and now Obama the presidential candidate.
So what’s the moral of the story? It would be easy to look at this and draw comparisons to recent politicians who claim to be “one of us,” but whose lives of power, privilege, and political grooming don’t sound like anyone I’ve ever met. Surely that’s true, and it’s nice to think we could have a president who didn’t go to Yale, who wasn’t in Skull and Bones, and whose international experience extends beyond a Señor Frog’s in Puerto Vallarta.
No, the moral of the story is that there is no moral. Life is far too complicated for aphorisms and simplistic solutions. Obama has big ideas and big talk, but he’s been around the block enough times to know you don’t waltz into a situation and start dictating answers. He knows how to deal with the establishment and the process, frequently cosponsoring bills with his colleagues across the aisle to ensure cross-partisan cooperation. But he also knows how to get into the trenches and seek buy-in from the community leaders and organizations.
His idealism is tempered by realism, but that tempering only serves to strengthen. Too often the atmosphere of reality overwhelms to the flame of an idea and snuffs it. Obama’s fire continues to burn bright, and his honesty, his openness, and his common sense make it easy to see why. The media seem to want to present Obama as a man without a résumé trying to sell us a bill of goods on faith, but that’s the exact opposite of the truth. Obama’s work, and his life, are all written down and submitted for your examination.
His résumé and his qualifications are impressive, and his message of personal responsibility and sacrifice not only make me proud to be an American for the first time in my life, but make me realize that in a very real way, the job interview analogy is an apt one. You and I are being asked to hire this man, and I for one am eager to welcome him to the team.
Addenda 
John C. Welch
For a long time, I supported Hilary. I know about all her baggage, but she’s a detail wonk, and I dig that. For example, she’s one of the few, maybe the only candidate to have separate science and aerospace planks in her platform
But listening to her, and Obama, I realized something. If all you care about are details in a platform, that’s a technician, not a leader. Leaders hire technicians, but you don’t let the technician run things.
I want a leader. I want someone who, every time they speak to me doesn’t pander to fear of the other, or smaller dreams, or making a buck now, fuck the future. I want someone who will, just by words and tone alone, make me want to be more than I am. To take a risk on a dream that may be too big for me, maybe even too big for my son, but one day, won’t be too big. I want someone who will say, “These are our rules of conduct, and not for fear, not for pain, not even for death will we ever compromise on them.”
We will never stoop to a lower level just because the other guy did. We will follow a higher standard, because that’s who we are as a people. Even if it costs more in the short run, in the long run, we will obey our own rules, because the ends do not justify the means, but rather the means justify the ends. If the beginning is corrupt, then how can the end be pure? If we turn away from the things we are fighting for, then how can we possibly win?
It is not enough to be the last man standing, that’s just luck and maybe viciousness. We have to be holding the other up, so even in defeat, they are raised. We have to be the america that rebuilt Japan, that created the Marshall Plan, that fed Berlin.
We have to be more than a country of small, close-minded yankee trader sycophants. We have to be guided by hope, and kindness, and courage, not hate and fear.
We need a leader, a true leader, who understands our flaws, because they share them, and wear them out for everyone to see. Who shines a light on all the parts of themselves, not just the parts they want to share.
Hilary is a technician. Barack is a leader.
I want a leader.
For a long time, I supported Hilary. I know about all her baggage, but she’s a detail wonk, and I dig that. For example, she’s one of the few, maybe the only candidate to have separate science and aerospace planks in her platform
But listening to her, and Obama, I realized something. If all you care about are details in a platform, that’s a technician, not a leader. Leaders hire technicians, but you don’t let the technician run things.
I want a leader. I want someone who, every time they speak to me doesn’t pander to fear of the other, or smaller dreams, or making a buck now, fuck the future. I want someone who will, just by words and tone alone, make me want to be more than I am. To take a risk on a dream that may be too big for me, maybe even too big for my son, but one day, won’t be too big. I want someone who will say, “These are our rules of conduct, and not for fear, not for pain, not even for death will we ever compromise on them.”
We will never stoop to a lower level just because the other guy did. We will follow a higher standard, because that’s who we are as a people. Even if it costs more in the short run, in the long run, we will obey our own rules, because the ends do not justify the means, but rather the means justify the ends. If the beginning is corrupt, then how can the end be pure? If we turn away from the things we are fighting for, then how can we possibly win?
It is not enough to be the last man standing, that’s just luck and maybe viciousness. We have to be holding the other up, so even in defeat, they are raised. We have to be the america that rebuilt Japan, that created the Marshall Plan, that fed Berlin.
We have to be more than a country of small, close-minded yankee trader sycophants. We have to be guided by hope, and kindness, and courage, not hate and fear.
We need a leader, a true leader, who understands our flaws, because they share them, and wear them out for everyone to see. Who shines a light on all the parts of themselves, not just the parts they want to share.
Hilary is a technician. Barack is a leader.
I want a leader.
flydadfly
obama is an interesting figure; some would compare him to jfk (who was assasinated when i was a child) but i’d compare him to his younger brother robert (who everyone knew was the brains behind the kennedy “mystique”). he’s got the charisma and the intelligence with an “ordinary joe” delivery that makes even this right-leaning contrarian excited to see him take the lead from “mrs. bill clinton” and run with it...i hope he wins the nomination, and i’m glad to see you taking part in the process. i’m in agreement with mr. welch; this country needs a leader, not another policy “wonk”.
obama is an interesting figure; some would compare him to jfk (who was assasinated when i was a child) but i’d compare him to his younger brother robert (who everyone knew was the brains behind the kennedy “mystique”). he’s got the charisma and the intelligence with an “ordinary joe” delivery that makes even this right-leaning contrarian excited to see him take the lead from “mrs. bill clinton” and run with it...i hope he wins the nomination, and i’m glad to see you taking part in the process. i’m in agreement with mr. welch; this country needs a leader, not another policy “wonk”.
Dustin Blake
You nailed it with the last two paragraphs; that’s exactly how I’ve felt Obama but hadn’t quite figured out how to express in words. You’ve done it so well that I’m just going to point people here! Thanks.
You nailed it with the last two paragraphs; that’s exactly how I’ve felt Obama but hadn’t quite figured out how to express in words. You’ve done it so well that I’m just going to point people here! Thanks.
Seth Musselman
Mike,
I like your blog, I like your honesty. To be fair I come from the opposite end of the political spectrum, but I really want to understand the rationale of Obama supporters.
I think your hiring a teammate analogy is pretty bad: you are hiring a manager or a CEO, not a teammate or colleague; this new CEO will never come to you to ask your opinion, you do not get a chance to evaluate him for 90 days and then say no.
The specific reasons you give for supporting Obama is his background (ie. Where he came from), his inspirational speaking/writing, but you don’t give one example of what good he has done in the legislatures. Actions speak louder than words, show me the actions. The actions in the legislature, not the actions that have no bearing (ie. Kissing babies, giving to charity, etc…). To a non-obama guy like me it strikes me that no Obama backer I have asked can give me one thing they like about him outside of his speaking or this “feeling” or “trust.” It makes me think either Obama backers don’t know what he will do because he’s been so vague, they don’t want to bring up specifics because it will make Obama appear weak on an issue, or they, justifiable, don’t like their alternative in the primary.
Let me say one thing about inspiration, a used-car salesman can inspire (convince, cajole, you name it) someone to buy a car, a tyrant can inspire a nation over the brink (Hitler, don’t think I’m comparing Obama to Hitler either, I am not, just pointing out that inspirational speaking is a really weak reason to promote someone to lead your nation), and leaders can inspire their followers to silly acts.
You say he works across the isle on congressional issues, I say hogwash, he has been rated the most liberal senator in 2007 by the National Journal (after being rated 10th and 16th). When I think of a cross party line person I don’t think of the most liberal or most conservative person in the senate.
Seth
Mike,
I like your blog, I like your honesty. To be fair I come from the opposite end of the political spectrum, but I really want to understand the rationale of Obama supporters.
I think your hiring a teammate analogy is pretty bad: you are hiring a manager or a CEO, not a teammate or colleague; this new CEO will never come to you to ask your opinion, you do not get a chance to evaluate him for 90 days and then say no.
The specific reasons you give for supporting Obama is his background (ie. Where he came from), his inspirational speaking/writing, but you don’t give one example of what good he has done in the legislatures. Actions speak louder than words, show me the actions. The actions in the legislature, not the actions that have no bearing (ie. Kissing babies, giving to charity, etc…). To a non-obama guy like me it strikes me that no Obama backer I have asked can give me one thing they like about him outside of his speaking or this “feeling” or “trust.” It makes me think either Obama backers don’t know what he will do because he’s been so vague, they don’t want to bring up specifics because it will make Obama appear weak on an issue, or they, justifiable, don’t like their alternative in the primary.
Let me say one thing about inspiration, a used-car salesman can inspire (convince, cajole, you name it) someone to buy a car, a tyrant can inspire a nation over the brink (Hitler, don’t think I’m comparing Obama to Hitler either, I am not, just pointing out that inspirational speaking is a really weak reason to promote someone to lead your nation), and leaders can inspire their followers to silly acts.
You say he works across the isle on congressional issues, I say hogwash, he has been rated the most liberal senator in 2007 by the National Journal (after being rated 10th and 16th). When I think of a cross party line person I don’t think of the most liberal or most conservative person in the senate.
Seth
Mike Lee
Don’t dismiss Obama’s ability to lead, to speak clearly, and to present Americans with a message of hope and unity, while challenging the citizenry to serve their country. Don’t dismiss his rational approach to supporting or opposing new laws, his ability to keep things in perspective, and his rejection of labels and rhetoric. These are all important qualities in a president.
Don’t seed mistrust in his silver tongue because he “could” lead people astray. His message is in writing, for all to see. That message is based on a simple fact: when we look past the labels we realize that people are more alike than they are different, and for the most part want the same things for themselves, for their families, for their neighbors, and for their nation.
Don’t let his idealism mislead you into thinking he hasn’t been working his ass off, first in the state legislature, then in the senate. Let his record speak for itself — anyone who says Obama is the most liberal person in the senate is either a liar or an idiot.
As a state legislator, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws. He sponsored a law enhancing tax credits for low-income workers and promoted increased subsidies for childcare, but he also negotiated welfare reform. He led the passage of legislation mandating videotaping of homicide interrogations, and a law to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they stopped.
In the U.S. Senate, Obama took an active role in the Senate’s drive for improved border security and immigration reform. In 2005, he co-sponsored the “Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act,” introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and added three amendments to the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.” In September 2006, Obama supported the Secure Fence Act, authorizing construction of fencing and other security improvements along the Mexico–United States border. I wouldn’t call that particularly liberal.
Obama introduced an initiative with Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) expanding the Nunn-Lugar cooperative threat reduction concept to conventional weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles and anti-personnel mines. He partnered with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) to introduce the “Coburn-Obama Transparency Act,” which provides for a web site, managed by the Office of Management and Budget, listing all organizations receiving Federal funds from 2007 onward, and providing breakdowns by the agency allocating the funds, the dollar amount given, and the purpose of the grant or contract.
Obama has been an active member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sponsoring the “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act,” signed into law in December 2006.
In August 2005, he traveled to Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan to work on strategies to prevent conventional weapons, biological weapons, and weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists.
In January 2006, he met with the U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq, then visited Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. At a meeting with Palestinian students two weeks before Hamas won the legislative election, Obama warned that “the U.S. will never recognize winning Hamas candidates unless the group renounces its fundamental mission to eliminate Israel.”
In August 2006, he traveled to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad. In a nationally televised speech at the University of Nairobi, he spoke forcefully on the influence of ethnic rivalries and corruption in Kenya.
Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D–WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the “Honest Leadership and Open Government Act”, which was signed into law in September 2007.
He joined Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections.
Obama’s energy initiatives have scored pluses and minuses with environmentalists. He worked with John McCain (R-AZ) on a climate change bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two-thirds by 2050, but also supported a bill promoting liquefied coal production.
Obama introduced the “Iraq War De-Escalation Act”, a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq, begin phased redeployment, and remove all combat brigades from Iraq before April 2008. Then he worked with Kit Bond (R-MO) on an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, calling for a review by the Government Accountability Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs.
He sponsored the “Iran Sanctions Enabling Act” supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran’s oil and gas industry, and joined Chuck Hagel (R-NE) in introducing legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.
Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries. After passing both houses of Congress with bipartisan majorities, SCHIP was vetoed by President Bush in early October 2007, a move Obama said “shows a callousness of priorities that is offensive to the ideals we hold as Americans.”
Clearly, this is a man who’s not afraid to cross the aisle, to support things that his fellow Democrats might find too politically volatile, and to stand up for his belief that Americans deserve an accountable government that has to be at once pragmatic and idealistic. Most liberal person in the senate my ass.
Don’t dismiss Obama’s ability to lead, to speak clearly, and to present Americans with a message of hope and unity, while challenging the citizenry to serve their country. Don’t dismiss his rational approach to supporting or opposing new laws, his ability to keep things in perspective, and his rejection of labels and rhetoric. These are all important qualities in a president.
Don’t seed mistrust in his silver tongue because he “could” lead people astray. His message is in writing, for all to see. That message is based on a simple fact: when we look past the labels we realize that people are more alike than they are different, and for the most part want the same things for themselves, for their families, for their neighbors, and for their nation.
Don’t let his idealism mislead you into thinking he hasn’t been working his ass off, first in the state legislature, then in the senate. Let his record speak for itself — anyone who says Obama is the most liberal person in the senate is either a liar or an idiot.
As a state legislator, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws. He sponsored a law enhancing tax credits for low-income workers and promoted increased subsidies for childcare, but he also negotiated welfare reform. He led the passage of legislation mandating videotaping of homicide interrogations, and a law to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they stopped.
In the U.S. Senate, Obama took an active role in the Senate’s drive for improved border security and immigration reform. In 2005, he co-sponsored the “Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act,” introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and added three amendments to the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act.” In September 2006, Obama supported the Secure Fence Act, authorizing construction of fencing and other security improvements along the Mexico–United States border. I wouldn’t call that particularly liberal.
Obama introduced an initiative with Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) expanding the Nunn-Lugar cooperative threat reduction concept to conventional weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles and anti-personnel mines. He partnered with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) to introduce the “Coburn-Obama Transparency Act,” which provides for a web site, managed by the Office of Management and Budget, listing all organizations receiving Federal funds from 2007 onward, and providing breakdowns by the agency allocating the funds, the dollar amount given, and the purpose of the grant or contract.
Obama has been an active member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sponsoring the “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act,” signed into law in December 2006.
In August 2005, he traveled to Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan to work on strategies to prevent conventional weapons, biological weapons, and weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists.
In January 2006, he met with the U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq, then visited Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. At a meeting with Palestinian students two weeks before Hamas won the legislative election, Obama warned that “the U.S. will never recognize winning Hamas candidates unless the group renounces its fundamental mission to eliminate Israel.”
In August 2006, he traveled to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad. In a nationally televised speech at the University of Nairobi, he spoke forcefully on the influence of ethnic rivalries and corruption in Kenya.
Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D–WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the “Honest Leadership and Open Government Act”, which was signed into law in September 2007.
He joined Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections.
Obama’s energy initiatives have scored pluses and minuses with environmentalists. He worked with John McCain (R-AZ) on a climate change bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two-thirds by 2050, but also supported a bill promoting liquefied coal production.
Obama introduced the “Iraq War De-Escalation Act”, a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq, begin phased redeployment, and remove all combat brigades from Iraq before April 2008. Then he worked with Kit Bond (R-MO) on an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, calling for a review by the Government Accountability Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs.
He sponsored the “Iran Sanctions Enabling Act” supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran’s oil and gas industry, and joined Chuck Hagel (R-NE) in introducing legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.
Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries. After passing both houses of Congress with bipartisan majorities, SCHIP was vetoed by President Bush in early October 2007, a move Obama said “shows a callousness of priorities that is offensive to the ideals we hold as Americans.”
Clearly, this is a man who’s not afraid to cross the aisle, to support things that his fellow Democrats might find too politically volatile, and to stand up for his belief that Americans deserve an accountable government that has to be at once pragmatic and idealistic. Most liberal person in the senate my ass.
Seth Musselman
Thank you for putting down some of his record, it’s much more than I’ve heard anyone ever have to say about him. I hope you make it to Denver for the DNC conference, it should be quite an event.
Thank you for putting down some of his record, it’s much more than I’ve heard anyone ever have to say about him. I hope you make it to Denver for the DNC conference, it should be quite an event.
His childhood was little more than an assumption on my part, and an assumption I had wrong.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Meet Obama
