Dreams Of My Father Audio Book

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, to Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham. His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student. His mother was from heartland-of-the-U.S. Kansas, and his father from Kenya. Barack's parents eventually divorced, and after his mother remarried, he lived in Indonesia for a time before returning to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. He later moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

True to the values of empathy and service that his mother instilled in him, Barack put law school on hold after college and moved to Chicago, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group that was dedicated to improving living conditions in poor neighborhoods. For example, helping poor people work with service agencies to get their plumbing and heating fixed and to find jobs for unemployed. It was here that he realized it would take changes in our laws and politics to truly improve the lives of the people in these impoverished neighborhoods. A little known but impressive fact is that when Barack applied to Harvard Law School, he did not even indicate his race on his Harvard application.

Barack earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He then returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. His advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years beginning in 1996. While in the Illinois State Senate, Barack served as chairman of the Public Health and Welfare Committee. In 2004, well into his U.S. Senate campaign, Barack wrote and delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, and became a rising star in U.S. politics. A few months later, he was elected to the U.S. Senate with a landslide 70% of the vote. Four months into his senate career, Time magazine named him "one of the world's most influential people," calling him "one of the most admired politicians in America." Barack formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election in Springfield, Illinois on February 10, 2007.

Barack is also an accomplished author. His 1995 book, Dreams from My Father, is a memoir of his youth and early career. The book was reprinted in 2004 with a new preface and an annex containing the text of his 2004 Democratic Convention keynote speech. The audio book edition earned Barack the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

In December 2004, Barack signed a contract to write three more books. The first, The Audacity of Hope, was published in October 2006. The book has remained at or near the top of the New York Times Best Seller list since its publication. It was also the theme of his 2004 keynote address. The second book will be a children's book to be co-written with his wife Michelle and their two daughters, with profits going to charity. The content of the third book has yet to be announced.

In August 2008, Barack was nominated by the Democratic party as their candidate to be President of the United States. Barack selected long-time and well-respected U.S. Senator Joe Biden as his running mate.

Wow - what is this? A Book Report about the virtues of Obama? Are you trying to convince those of us who didn't want this guy in the White House that he should be there?

We don't like this guy because he is trying to turn us into a socialist country. He has an agenda to bring about the New World Order (and so did Bush). He lies about so many things, and then pats himself on the back and gives himself a B+ for his time in office. All you gotta do it check out some of the things he has said IN HIS OWN WORDS to know this guy is someone we don't want in the WHITE HOUSE. Just go to youtube.......tons of videos to check out.

Truly, the only great thing he has done so far as president was to give the OKAY for the navy seals to kill the pirates who were holding one of our ship captains hostage.

This man has never had a real job. He was a community organizer before he got into politics. He has surrounded himself with czars who don't have to answer to anyone but himself. These people are crazy, left-wing loons who are self-avowed communists, marxists, socialists, etc. One of these crazy people even stated how much they look up to Mao Tse Tung! These people have an AGENDA to destroy the country as we know it.

YOU ALL BETTER WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!

2009-12-26 19:58:52 by tianna

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what has Obama done?

I love this question…. here’s a start:

Education:

* 1983 Foreign Policy Degree from Columbia,
* 1991 Law Degree from Harvard, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and he served as the President of the Harvard Law Review, one of the most prestigious student positions in the world.

Community Organizer, 1985

He sought to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment

* Moved the Chicago Housing Authority to remove asbestos in housing
* Established a job-training center
* Worked in the streets on voter registration to help elect President Clinton
* Registered 150,000 people to vote

Civil Rights Lawyer

Miner, Barnhill & Galland: litigated employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and voting rights cases.

* Protecting voters: seccessfully sued state of Illinois for failing to implement a federal voter-registration law.

* Successfully defended a whistleblower who lost her job, for a $5 million settlement

Constitutional Law professor/lecturer at the University of Chicago

Illinois State Senate 1996 - 2004

* Welfare legislation

* Created the Earned Income Tax Credit program that gave over $100 million in tax cuts for families throughout Illinois over 3 years.

* Expanded early childhood education

* Enlisted the support of law enforcement officials to draft legislation requiring the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

* He passed a law to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they stopped. The law was at first very controversial, but due to Obama’s skills as a negotiator and bipartisanships, he won the support of the police. During his 2004 general election campaign for U.S. Senate, he won the endorsement of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police, whose president credited Obama for his active engagement with police organizations in enacting death penalty reforms.

* Pass the toughest campaign finance law in Illinois history. The legislation banned the personal use of campaign money by Illinois legislators and banned most gifts from lobbyists. Worked with U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL), 1988. Before the law was passed, one organization ranked Illinois worst among 50 states for its campaign finance regulations.

* Created a working, affordable health care plan in Illinois, that covers 70,000 kids and 84,000 adults, where all kids qualify for $40 per child. Obama sponsored and passed this legislation, working with Rod R. Blagojevich(IL Gov.) See All Kids http://www.allkids.com/ . It is a model for a workable, affordable national health care.

Honors:

* Outstanding Legislator Award
* Campaign for Better Health Care and Illinois Primary Health Care Association, 1998
* Best Freshman Legislator Award
* Independent Voters of Illinois, 1997
* Monarch Award for Outstanding Public Service, 1994
* “40 Under 40” Award, Crain’s Chicago Business, 1993.
* Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio version of his book, Dreams from My Father.

US Senate, 2004 - present

He is a member of several Senate Committees:

* Committee on Foreign Relations, that plays a vital role in shaping US policy around the world.
* Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that addresses, among other things, issues of immigration and our borders.
* Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: oversees our nation’s health care, schools, employment, and retirement programs
* Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: focused on providing our brave veterans with the care and services they deserve.
* 2005-2006: Environment and Public Works Committee, which safeguards our environment and provides funding for our highways

The Numbers

Obama sponsored 152 bills and resolutions brought before the 109th Congress in 2005 and 2006, and cosponsored another 427.

Legislation Passed in US Senate

* Lugar-Obama Act to decrease nuclear and conventional weapons proliferation around the world.

* Coburn-Obama Transparency Act transparency in federal spending, found at httP://www.usaspending.gov

* Cosponsored the Healthy Kids Act of 2007 and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007 to ensure that more American children have affordable health care coverage.

* Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.

* As a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Obama passed legislation to improve care and slash red tape for our wounded warriors recovering at places like Walter Reed. He passed laws to help homeless veterans and offered an innovative solution to prevent at-risk veterans from falling into home
I think that the people that have no substance, to my question and statement, are clearly racist.
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this one is about your barefooted moose sipping princess, that obviously don't know JACK about foreign affairs, or the bush doctrine. Keep sipping moose kool aid

OK you convinced me, I'll vote for Obama.

2008-09-13 07:25:18 by Ms. Sugar Walls

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April Winchell has audio clips from Obama's book Dreams of My Father where Obama did the audiobook himself. He quotes his friend -- or "friend" -- Ray from his teenage years. I would post the direct link but due to profanity, I am not taking that chance.

Nevertheless, some of the quotes are along the lines of:

"Sure, you can have my number baby!"

"You ain't my ******, *****! Buy your own damn fries!"

and...

"This **** is getting way too complicated for me!"

Go to a search engine and type in April Winchell Obama Clips and it will be the first link, you can't miss it. Unless you misspell like crazy!

Don't you think those would make great ringtones?

They would make very funny tones. But who would want to be reminded of this bowl of turds of a situation we are in?

2009-02-20 08:52:14 by Fallen

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"...I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites..."

"We were always playing on the man's court. Ray had told me, by the white man's rules...any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning...the only thing you could choose as your own was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage..."

-Barack Obama, from Dreams of My Father (Page 85 in print version, left out of audio book)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI77cU3js Fs

He is conflicted, because outwardly, he is obviously black african, but...
the ONLY people in his life who ever cared for him, supported him, FED HIM, schooled him, ALL WERE WHITE.

..Obama`s black father abandoned him, and was a brutal, violent bigamist who had numerous illegitimate kids he never took care of or cared for.

If you wanted to join the `black is beautiful` or `fight the power of whitey` militant activist movement, which is what Obama did,
it would be kind of hard to do so unless you mentally denied/suppressed the fact that your black parent abandoned you as a defenseless baby, and only WHITES ever took care of you and cared for you.

Obama went so far as to chage his name TO the african `Obama` from `Soetero`.
As an adult, he deliberately adopted the name of the black african man who beat his mom and abandoned him as a baby,
and discarded the last name of the indonesian man who ACTUALLY RAISED Him...thats how bad Obama racially is in denial.
He loves the man who abandoned him, and scorns those who raised him- good choice for Pres!

(and I will never vote for McCain or Obama)

2008-10-11 13:07:58 by ????????????

i have to do Barack Obama biography for a huge history project and im kind of lost. i have to include family life, education, non political education, political offices/positions held. political philosophy (specially) and reasons for running for office... BUT i dont know if the information i have includes this all.. so could you read what i have and tell me what else to include??? please?

Barack Hussein Obama was born on august forth 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama Sr. A black Kenyan and Ann Dunham. His parents divorced when he was two and he lived with his mother while his father went back to Kenya. In 1982 Barack Obama Sr. died in an automobile accident. After the divorce Obama’s mother married Lolo Soetono, and in 1967 they moved to Jakarta Indonesia where Lolo was originally from. Obama attended school there, where classes were only taught in the Indonesian language.
When Barack was ten he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. In 1995 his mother died of ovarian cancer. Obama graduated from the esteemed Punahau Academy with honors in 1979. He was one of the three black students at the school. During those years he became aware of racism and what it meant to be an African American. During his teenage years in high school Obama admitted using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine at the 2008 civil forum he said it was one his greatest moral failures.
After high school Obama attended the occidental college for two years and then transferred to Columbia University in New York where he graduated with a degree in political science. On February 1988 Obama entered Harvard law school and was later elected to be the first African American editor of Harvard law review. He then graduated in 1991. He then worked a few years as a layer in Chicago. In 1995 Obama published an autobiography called Dreams of My Father, and won a Grammy for the audio version of the book. Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school and was a senior lecturer from 1996 to 2004.
In 1996 Barack Obama was elected to be the Illinois state senate as a democrat. Once he was elected he gained support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws. He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low income workers, negotiated welfare and promoted increased subsides for childcare; He was reelected in 1998 and in 2002. For the first time he decided to run for a seat in the U.S House of Representatives in 2000 but he lost. Later in 2004, he ran again and won the democratic primary with fifty-two percent of the votes.
After the nine eleven attacks Obama expressed his opposition of president bush’s will to go on a war with Iraq. During a rally at Chicago’s federal plaza in October 2002 he said “I am not opposed to all wars, I’m opposed to dumb wars”. Many times Obama expressed his feeling about the war in Iraq saying that it was not a good thing, and continually opposed bush’s decision to go to war with Iraq for the wrong reasons.
On February Ten 2007 Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States. Throughout the campaign Obama emphasized the issues of ending the war in Iraq, increasing energy independence and providing universal health care. He later announced that these were his top three priorities if he became president. At the beginning he was running against Hilary Clinton, but on the seventh of June she suspended her campaign and endorsed Obama. Now he is on a tight race against the republican nominee Senator John McCain.

please, im just in high school,, i dont need things to be 100% correct. just what seems to be right.. i i know its not perfect, and i do need to do some corrections, and i think its a bit short..
thanks for those who answered this truthfully.

I think its excellent.
But a small note: you shouldn't say a black kenyan , just kenyan
and for his mother you should say: Ann Durham an American from kansas

2008-10-13 12:53:55 by Poison Apple