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Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:14 PM

Insight into Obama

As I read that many people felt they did not know Obama, and that perhaps a deeper reason for the reluctance to vote for him beyond his skin color were questions about his religion, his education, and his values. I thought it would have been a good idea for the author to have asked those folks to read his first book. “Dreams from My Father” Written almost 15 years ago, before his political career began it was a book originally conceived to be about race relations, but became a story about his values, his education, and the people and things that had influenced him. I think there is no better way to begin to get to know the man

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