Obama

Today it looks as if Barack Obama, is almost all set for the Democratic nomination. I had hoped to see a woman elected President of the United States in my lifetime but I guess it was not to be. Even though I was pulling for Hillary, I will vote for Obama in the general election instead.

I have read both of Obama's books and am now reading " Obama-From Promise To Power" by David Mendell,a reporter with the Chicago Tribune who covered Obama extensively during his campaign for the U.S. Senate. "From Promise To Power" reads like a novel. This extremely well written and interesting book fleshes out the candidate and is a fine companion to Obama's personal memoirs, "Dreams of My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope"

And from Amazon:

"Mendell tracks Obama's rise through the frustrations of community organizing and the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago politics to the rarefied, if no less brutal, world of the U.S. Senate. Mendell draws on interviews with Obama, his wife, family, friends, aides, and rivals, as well as his own extensive coverage since Obama's days in the Illinois Senate, to offer a nuanced, compelling look at a man of idealism and ambition intent on making history."