Dreams from my Father: A Review

This was a book written by Barack Obama. His reasoning behind writing the book is still unclear to me, even after reading it and his own statements it in the introduction and prologue. My only summation was that it may give him some street cred with black voters. As I read through the garrulous chapters (of which read as his speeches sound, romantic and enrapturing,) I realized that the only difference between the book and his speeches are that the book has an extreme unabashed theme of racism as oppose to zero substance. Accordring to Obama, whites are the cause of all the blacks poor attitudes, as well as their overall destitute existence on this planet.

The book starts out talking about the life he lived in Hawaii and Indonesia. He hears stories about his absent father and weaves a fantasy tapestry in his mind about his African father while he continually bashed his white grandparents and says little to anything about his single white mother. Obama's grandmother "Toot," is frightened by a black man who harasses her in the wee hours of the morning while waiting for the bus to take her to work. Barack is angered by this because he believes his Grandmother is a "typical white person" and reacting as a racist. I'm sorry, if I am alone waiting for public transportation anywhere at anytime and a man of any race harasses me, I am going to get licensed to start carrying my pistol.

Then Barack Obama goes on to talk about going to college, the very same college that is #1 nationally rated as the most left-winged, liberal university of all time... Occidental College in Los Angeles. He got there on a scholarship only because his racist grandmother (who braved public transportation to her job every morning, while his cool grandfather went to all black bars, to drink and shed is "white guilt") made sure Barack went to the most prestigious prep school in Hawaii.

At one point he makes a statement that President Reagan was historically the worst president of all time. Not Ulysses S. Grant, the notorious drunkard, or any other presidents who allowed slavery to continue uncontested.

Then Obama talks about his time in Chicago and Africa, basically to point out that the whites had brought about all there troubles by taking the "good jobs" away from the minorities and how British colonialism destroyed the true and authentic Africa. Which if history serves me right, Africa was divid up by several European nations. The same nations he paraded around a couples of weeks ago trying to soothe and appease! He also talks about his first meeting with Reverend Wright, and the very first sermon he had ever heard from Rev. Wright called "The Audacity of Hope," which had an IRS agent been sitting in the pew that Sunday they would have immediately return to the office Monday morning and yanked his "church's" tax-exempt status. The same stuff we have seen on the news and of which political commentator Glenn Beck aired full sermons so they would be put into "context" were no different then than until Rev. Wright retired. Rev. Wright never changed, in fact he makes Obama look like the chameleon he truly is.

Obama is constantly talking about his struggles as a "black man" all the while living in Hyde Park in Chicago, of which is a majority (43%) white neighborhood... as oppose to Altgeld Gardens (a project that was founded by the democrat John Peter Altgeld!) where Barack used to work as an organizer and the majority population in a whopping 97% black! One of the highest percentages in the US! Why wouldn't Barack choose to "struggle" with his "brothas and sistas"? Oh I forgot, because his ideas of struggling are things like being punished with babies and paying taxes.

The sheer pomposity of the man never ceases to end. I will be reading his other book: The Audacity of Hope. I will be giving a review and concurrently read Hitler's Mein Kampf and try to compare/contrast the two.