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They’re right. All the friends who have been reading Audacity of Hope and saying – you’ve got to read this. You do. Especially in light of the fact that Obama might just be a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination. I am one of those who have said that Obama is too inexperienced to run for president. But after reading his book I’m rethinking that position. He has had experience. In the state legislature of Illinois, as a community organizer after college among urban youth in Chicago, in Indonesia where he lived for a time as child, as an attorney (graduate of Harvard Law), as a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago (one of his best chapters is on the Constitution.), as the U.S. Junior Senator from Illinois and as a man of mixed race with all that teaches about race. With his mother's milk he imbibed a concern for the world's disadvantaged - she being a life long activist for peace and women's issues. And his brilliant father, an economist for a time in the government of Kenya, left Obama a legacy, which beckons him to engage the political process. And then there is this – he rings true. An as he demonstrated at the Democratic National Convention he knows how to use the bully pulpit to call us to what he believes is an American strength – our “audacity of hope.” I don’t want too sound grandiose – but it is another president from Illinois that comes to mind when I read this book. We’ll see. Regardless – the book is important. This an articulate writer and a leader who even if he continues as a senator just might be able to inspire us to reach hands across the waters and remember what the founders taught us about common cause. <back to list |
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