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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dreamby Barack Obama
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"A government that truly represents these Americans — that truly serves these Americans — will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won't be prepackaged, ready to pull off the shelf. It will have to be constructed from the best of our traditions and will have to account for the darker aspects of our past. We will need to understand just how we got to this place, this land of warring factions and tribal hatreds. And we'll need to remind ourselves, despite all our differences, just how much we share: common hopes, common dreams, a bond that will not break."
— from The Audacity of Hope
Echoing themes he sounded in his extraordinary keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama speaks in this book to Americans of all stripes who are weary of the smallness of U.S.politics today, and who long for something rooted in the faith and decency of the American Dream.
In The Audacity of Hope he draws on his experience as a senator and lawyer, a professor and father, a Christian and a skeptic, to illuminate the greatness of America's original ideals — and to remind us how vital it is to keep them before us. Along the way he explores such charged topics as globalization, the notion of American exceptionalism, the function of religion in public life, and the struggle to find a shared language in a nation torn by differences. While sharing his personal views on family, faith, and values, he argues that our very survival depends on finding common ground.
Pundits and voters alike have hailed Senator Obama as a man of uncommon vision in an age of partisan opportunism. The Audacity of Hope is a book of transforming power, a foundation for those who long for a politics that acknowledges the nobility and complexity of our lives.
"Ilinois's Democratic senator illuminates the constraints of mainstream politics all too well in this sonorous manifesto. Obama (Dreams from My Father) castigates divisive partisanship (especially the Republican brand) and calls for a centrist politics based on broad American values. His own cautious liberalism is a model: he's skeptical of big government and of Republican tax cuts for the rich and Social Security privatization; he's prochoice, but respectful of prolifers; supportive of religion, but not of imposing it. The policy result is a tepid Clintonism, featuring tax credits for the poor, a host of small-bore programs to address everything from worker retraining to teen pregnancy, and a health-care program that resembles Clinton's Hillary-care proposals. On Iraq, he floats a phased but open-ended troop withdrawal. His triangulated positions can seem conflicted: he supports free trade, while deploring its effects on American workers (he opposed the Central American Free Trade Agreement), in the end hoping halfheartedly that more support for education, science and renewable energy will see the economy through the dilemmas of globalization. Obama writes insightfully, with vivid firsthand observations, about politics and the compromises forced on politicians by fund-raising, interest groups, the media and legislative horse-trading. Alas, his muddled, uninspiring proposals bear the stamp of those compromises." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Why, just two years after being elected to the Senate, has Barack Obama set so many Democratic — and some Republican — imaginations on fire? The Illinois Democrat is certainly a magnetic speaker who delivers original phrases in composed yet passionate tones. His life, as told in the powerful memoir 'Dreams From My Father,' seems a model for the globalized future: The only child of a biracial, bicontinental... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) union, he grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, then went on to become a community organizer in Chicago and the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. And his athletic good looks have landed him on the cover of a major fashion magazine, with a spread by Annie Leibovitz. Not since John F. Kennedy has a junior senator so quickly become a national celebrity and a possible candidate for the White House. But what's most impressive about Obama, 45, is an intelligence that his new book displays in abundance. He articulates a mode of liberalism that sounds both highly pragmatic and deeply moral. 'The Audacity of Hope' — the title comes from a sermon by his Chicago pastor — trumpets no unifying theme or grand theory about how the American dream will be reclaimed and by whom. Chapters bear such prosaic titles as 'Values,' 'Opportunity' and 'Faith.' But in a disarmingly modest way, Obama offers a more sensible perspective on 'how we might begin the process of changing our politics and our civic life' than his more seasoned Capitol Hill colleagues have provided. Take the problem of the big money that is indispensable to winning a statewide or national campaign. Unlike most Democrats, Obama does not dwell on the corrupt antics of the convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his friends. His concern is about a more serious and enduring threat to democracy: class inequality. During his own Senate race in 2004, Obama had to spend a good deal of time with 'law firm partners and investment bankers, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists.' Most of these donors, he acknowledges, were 'smart, interesting people' who asked for no specific favors. Still, they couldn't help but express 'the perspectives of their class.' Their wealth prevented them from understanding loyal members of labor unions, evangelical churches or the NRA. As firm believers in a meritocracy, the donors implicitly denied that 'there might be any social ill that could not be cured by a high SAT score.' Lawmakers who routinely move in such circles, Obama adds, tend to neglect 'the world of immediate hunger, disappointment, fear, irrationality, and frequent hardship of the other 99 percent of the population — that is, the people that I'd entered public life to serve.' That willingness to criticize his own well-heeled supporters stems partly from Obama's years of work with the working poor. It reflects a desire to transcend accusations and talking points and to offer a fresh look at undeniable but seemingly insoluble problems. Thus Obama agrees with conservatives who argue that teen motherhood and the glorification of 'gangsta life' help keep young blacks from escaping the ghetto. But as an African-American, he also recognizes each violent criminal as a cousin or brother who was not preordained to go wrong. 'African Americans understand that culture matters but that culture is shaped by circumstance,' he observes, and the longer policymakers and the middle-class public ignore inner-city poverty or try to explain it away, the more endemic it becomes. To address the problem, Obama recommends a bundle of pragmatic policies that would draw both on public funds and the initiative of local businesses: low-cost child-care centers, neighborhood health clinics, job programs for ex-felons. Obama's own experiences also help him illuminate the root causes of anti-Americanism abroad. During his time in Indonesia, the archipelago was at the beginning of an oil-generated boom that spread prosperity, unevenly, throughout the islands. The United States had helped install Sukarno, a military dictator, after a bloodbath that claimed at least an estimated 500,000 lives. But once the Indonesian economy collapsed in the 1990s, militant Islamists were able to gain a hearing for their diatribes against modernist culture and American power. For Obama, this new 'land of strangers' serves as a lesson about the way that U.S. influence — cultural, economic and military — has both uplifted and angered the world, in roughly equal measure. He also points out that most Americans can't find Indonesia on a map. Throughout the book, Obama strikes similar ethical chords. He credits President Reagan's 'clarity about communism' but regrets that it 'seemed matched by his blindness regarding other sources of misery in the world.' He endorses marriage workshops and shudders at the explicit lyrics of some rap songs, but he opposes legal restrictions on intimate behavior. 'Perhaps I just find the ways of the human heart too various, and my own life too imperfect, to believe myself qualified to serve as anyone's moral arbiter,' he writes, echoing Jesus' judgment that only those without sin should cast the first stone. Obama's knack for mixing stirring rhetoric about good and evil with practical policy ideas is rare in the modern history of U.S. politics. At times, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kennedy and Reagan managed the feat. But none of these men wrote his own presidential speeches. Nor did Kennedy or Reagan really write the books that carry their names. In contrast, 'The Audacity of Hope' is clearly Obama's own creation; the rhythms, the self-deprecating humor and the graceful transitions all resemble those in his memoir. The sentimentality does, too. His book concludes with a vignette that could be entitled 'Mr. Obama Goes to Washington.' On fine evenings, the senator likes to take a run down the Mall and end up inside the Lincoln Memorial. He reads the two greatest, and perhaps shortest, speeches ever written and delivered by an American president and reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'mighty cadence' that thrilled a massive crowd a century later. 'My heart is filled,' Obama writes, 'with love for this country.' The story, like the original by Frank Capra, is a bit hard to believe. (Does the senator really pore over the words of the Second Inaugural and the Gettsyburg Address on every visit?) Of course, the policies Obama favors are far less audacious than Lincoln's destruction of the slave system or King's crusade to abolish the Jim Crow order that replaced it. Still, in our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama's talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope. Someday, it may even help him get elected president. Michael Kazin's most recent book is 'A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan.' He teaches history at Georgetown University." Reviewed by Michael Kazin, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"Drawing on his experiences as a senator and lawyer, a professor and father, a Christian and a skeptic, Obama...highlights the boldness of America's original ideas and reminds readers of the importance of keeping them at the forefront of their daily lives." Ebony magazine
"Mr. Obama strives in these pages to ground his policy thinking in simple common sense....That, in itself, is something unusual, not only in these venomous pre-election days, but also in these increasingly polarized and polarizing times." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"It is a mixture of personal memoir and lengthy analyses of public policy options." Chicago Sun-Times
"Obama writes convincingly about race as well as the lofty place the Constitution holds in American life, not always an easy pairing for African Americans." Los Angeles Times
"He is one of the best writers to enter modern politics." Jonathan Alter, Newsweek.com
"The self-portrait is appealing. It presents a man of relative youth yet maturity, a wise observer of the human condition, a figure who possesses perseverance and writing skills that have flashes of grandeur." Gary Hart, New York Times Book Review
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called "the audacity of hope."
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obamas call for a different brand of politics—a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in democracy." He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media—that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment.
At the heart of this book is Barack Obamas vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats—from terrorism to pandemic—that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy—where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family, friends, and members of the Senate is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.
A public servant and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes—"waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them."
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About the Author
Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, where he served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He has worked as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, and law professor. Since 1997, he has represented parts of Chicago's South Side in the Illinois General Assembly, and he is currently the junior U.S. senator from Illinois. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Malia and Sasha.
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Calls to cut U.S. aid to Egypt gained steam Sunday as members of Congress on both sides of the aisle urged the Obama administration to suspend support in the aftermath of deadly clashes between the military and Islamist protesters.
Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, accused the White House of failing to follow through on a threat to cut off aid in the event of a coup. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was deposed by the military in early July after he granted himself unlimited powers.
"We have no credibility. That's the problem," Mr. McCain said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We know the administration called the Egyptians and said, 'Look, if you do a coup, we're going have to cut off aid because that's the law. We have to comply with the law.' This administration did not do that after threatening to do so."
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President Obama announced Thursday from his vacation spot on Martha's Vineyard that he had canceled joint military exercises, but he has resisted freezing the $1.3 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt.
Calls for cutting aid escalated after hundreds of protesters were killed Wednesday in a clash with the military. Even some lawmakers who previously backed keeping foreign aid in order to maintain U.S. leverage in Egypt said they have since changed their minds.
"I think the actions of the last week are going to no doubt cause us to suspend aid, and at the same time I think it's time for us to recalibrate and look at what is our national interest," Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, said on ABC's "This Week." "There's no doubt we've overestimated what our leverage was and we've underestimated the leverage that Saudi Arabia and [the United Arab Emirates] have had on this government."
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire Republican, also reversed course.
"It must be suspended. … The military's gotten the impression that whatever they do, we will continue our aid," the New Hampshire Republican said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Rep. Keith Ellison, Minnesota Democrat, called on the Obama administration to cut off aid and acknowledge the military overthrow of the Morsi government.
"In my mind, there's no way to say that this was not a coup," Mr. Ellison said on "This Week." "It is, we should say so, and then we should follow our own law, which says we cannot fund the coup leaders."
Proponents of continuing foreign aid argued that a freeze would reduce the administration's leverage in steering Egypt to a peaceful resolution and could endanger U.S. interests in the region, such as its access to the Suez Canal.
Rep. Eliot L. Engel, New York Democrat, warned policymakers on "This Week" not to "cut off our nose to spite our face."
"I'm very unhappy, obviously, with the crackdown, but we essentially have two choices in Egypt, and that's a military government which hopefully will transition as quickly as possible to civilian government, or the Muslim Brotherhood," said Mr. Engel. "I don't think the Muslim Brotherhood is a choice. Now it's very disconcerting that the generals, the military, have not listened to us, but I think we need to keep it up."
Mr. McCain said the U.S. is losing its influence by failing to follow through on its own laws regarding foreign aid.
"For us to sit by and watch this happen is a violation of everything that we stood for," said Mr. McCain. "When we threaten something, as we did … and then not do it, then you lose your credibility and your influence. The generals are acting now with confidence that there will be no reprisals."
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said U.S. aid to Egypt funds "dictators and despots."
"When they see an American tank on the street, when someone is shot down or rolled over by a tank that was purchased with American money, do you think that buys any friendship with the Egyptian people?" Mr. Paul said on "Fox News Sunday." "Basically, foreign aid to Egypt is more likely to buy a lavish chateau for a dictator or general in Paris than it is to buy bread for people in Cairo."
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|A life in letters: in his own words --
Becoming and being a monk: reflections on the monastic life --
Living the writer's life: from manuscript to publication --
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I traded my Buick LaCrosse for this car because I wanted a convertible; so it was quite the change for me but I've really enjoyed driving my EOS. It is not really a sporty car in the sense that it can take tight curves at high speed like say, a Mazda Miata, but more like a sporty cruiser. No mechanical issues to speak of yet, so maybe I have lucked out compared to some of the other reviews written here. I chose a mechanic who is independent and focuses totally on foreign cars and the car checked out well. I think this car is a great value for what you get especially the moving hardtop which are typically on higher priced vehicles.
Hard top - don't have to worry about vandalism, sporty cruiser feel, acceleration (from starting and passing), interior, ergonomics of controls - simple and not distracting.
Leather seating could be a little thicker with more cushion - kind of hard especially on bumps. Can't think of anything else. Time will see how reliable the car turns out to be.
I bought this car brand new & have had to many problems to list.I used to own VW's and always loved them along with the service. Their service and reliability is nothing like it used to be.I have taken my car to 2 different dealers and both gave horrible service. My car has been in the shop so many times I should be able to call it a lemon, but because they would take to long to find the issues that never happened. This month alone it has been in the shop 3 times and they cannot figure out the electrical issues or a clunking noise.
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With the horrible review you would think that I don't like the car, but I actually love it.
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I love the fact that it is a cross between sport and luxury.
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when it is not having problems it has fantastic handling and is so much fun. very comfortable to drive and the back seat is a decent size.
The trunk is very spacious even when the top is down.
I live in a small town and ended up getting many others to look at vw's and buy them.
I used to love being the only one on the road with this car but now there are several more.
reliability, service don't charge for an upgraded stereo system and then put in a piece of crap.
I could get a better stereo in a 15k car. state the correct miles per gallon my car has never gotten near what it is supposed to, but yet the service people just said oh well
I bought the 2008 Lux Eos.
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Its unfortunate that I spent so much on a vehicle and was treated so poorly.
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I am so saddened by the negative reviews I see on here concerning the EOS. I have had nothing but 100% reliable service and miles of fun drives! Ok, it is a car that requires 'special' maintenance (ie: the roof seals) but it says that CLEARLY in the owner's manual! If you don't read the book, you shouldn't be surprised at these things. I lubricate my seals as per VW and have never had an issue! Basically, my EOS has never given us an once of trouble. I have never owned a hardtop car and have owned over 60 convertibles, this is by far the best thought out one I have ever seen / owned! If you are considering one, DO IT! You won't regret it!
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Do we really not have this?... A character, usually a pet but human characters can also sometimes play this, wanders away from home, or gets lost, kidnapped etc. While the story on one side will deal with how they cope with life outside their comfortable home and their efforts to find their way back, it will just as much focus on how their friends deal with missing them. Usually will end with An Aesop for both parties, the runaway learning that There's No Place Like Home, while their friends that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. The reunion can be a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. Examples:
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Everyone knows about ties. Well, almost everyone. Donovan McNabb shocked the world when he told the media he wasn't aware you could tie in the NFL. I spoke to McNabb about this.
ME: Donovan, thanks for joining me. I wanted to have you on to clarify something. After your tie against the Bengals, you said you weren't aware that ties were in the rule book. I find that a bit ridiculous. You seem like an intelligent guy. You're the quarterback of an NFL team. You were obviously under the influence of drugs when you told the media you didn't know ties existed, correct?
"No, I've never heard of ties. No one ever told me this, and I've never been part of one, so how could I possibly know about them?"
ME: Umm... because it's common sense? Because 12-year-old football fans know about ties? I refuse to believe NFL players can be either that stupid or ignorant. Actually, I'm just falling for it again. You must still be hallucinating from eating too much Chunky Soup at halftime.
"Halves times? What is this halves times you speak of? I have not heard of this in my life!"
ME: Uhh... you know the 15-minute break you take between the second and third quarters in every game?
"Oh! I thought that was a coin-kee-dink!"
ME: Are you kidding me? Next, you're gonna tell me that you're not aware that receivers need to have two feet inbounds when making a catch.
"Two feets? I never had to make a catch, so I'm not aware of this. I'd like to see what happens once someone in college football puts one feets inbounds! They think it's all one feets!"
ME: Yeah, you're definitely high of Chunky Soup. Get back to me once you're sober.
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