What is reading for pleasure?? :-) During school I never have time to read for pleasure. Before this semester I started reading The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama. I have never been a big political follower or the type to read a book like this but I had heard some good things about it and him and my Grandma had it so I borrowed it. I must say that a few sentences into it and I was hooked. I have probably only read about a quarter of the book but I like it a lot. It has also made me like him a lot. He has so many great things to say and he just seems like such a good guy, who has some good ideas. He comes out and says that he doesn't have any answers, just some ideas and that we need to get things back to the basics, hope, trust, faith, etc. A lot of people are still not too sure about him, mostly because of his race, and that is pretty sad. I would hope at this point out country would be ready for a leader or a different race or gender, but I'm not sure if he would win just because of that one factor. Hopefully I will get to finish this book sometime soon, but with the semester half over and student teaching creeping up fast, I don't know when that will happen.
To end here is a little section from the book that I really like...it is something that he said to people during his first run for a political office when they asked, "why such a nice guy like him would want to go into something so nasty like politics?"
..."I would usually smile and nod and say that I understood the skepticism, but that there was--and always had been--another tradition to politics, a tradition that stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done."
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On Channel 56 at 12:00 midnight. There is a talk show called Tavis Smiley. Tavis hosted the democratic debate. After the Debate, Tavis had him on his show. They discussed the book. Obama had said that all American's lost faith in the political system. He thought that it was important gain the American people's confidence.
For me personally. It is between, Hilary Clinton, Ombama and the Democratic person from Alaska. He too has some very interesting ideas. It depends on the polls and who the mass media wants in. The stations pick and choose which ads they will run. Depending on who the CEO personally likes.
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