In one sense, Barack Obama defies easy categorisation: 'The child of a black man and white woman, born in the racial melting pot of Hawaii, with a sister who's half-Indonesian. It may be all our futures.Īnd there is fascination as the pages turn.
Why, didn't his quasi-autobiography cum manifesto, sell 1.3 million copies, top the New York Times list and win glowing reviews to boot? And didn't he write it (rather mellifluously) himself? Look, no ghost hands here! So The Audacity of Hope invites sterner scrutiny than your average political potboiler. It must be a Democrat for the White House next time, they say, and this guy, this eloquent, thoughtful, handsome, black guy, is the real deal. Old Clinton stalwarts desert Hillary to serve at his side.
The candidate is already 2007's champion fundraiser.
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