Reddit reviews Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Presidents make $400,000 a year and pay no living expenses while serving. So, after tax times 8 years, that's about 2.36 million dollars. He's also got multiple... New York Times... best selling books. So, he's likely earned a few million dollars. No different than any other president in the past 50 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrp-v2tHaDo

ETA: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400082773/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479704078&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=obama+dreams+from+my+father

>And where are you getting this cocaine stuff?

Dreams From My Father, By Barack Obama.

"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it."

Apparently this was talked about so much that you didn't even know he admitted to cocaine use in his memoir...but let's keep talking about how big of a deal Romney's prank should be.

> The reason money is so important is because they do need people's votes.

And that is why both parties ultimately work for the same people. The rich. Because they need their money.

> He got in because tons of idiots wanted to have a beer with him.

It's actually quite a bit more sophisticated and sinister than that. Politicians get people to vote for them by creating in the minds of their target audience something like a personal connection - an identification. Bush excelled at doing this with the Republican base. Obama excels at doing it with the Democratic base. That is the purpose that things like books, websites named "myBarackObama.org", and the marketing campaigns fulfill.

So in the same way that Conservatives looked at Bush, and thought he was a good guy, down to earth, homey, unpretentious in that aw-shucks way middle America likes so much (basically all those things that presses that demographics' subconscious buttons) Liberals looked at Obama, at his life-story narrative, his cool, calm, rational demeanor, abundantly apparent intelligence and eloquence, and that just pressed all their buttons the right way. And this is why despite all the evidence to the contrary, they persist in thinking he somehow means well, is trying to do good, is trying to help the little people, etc. etc. Even though in reality he's just like Bush. Just a guy who wanted to get his ass into office, and to get there he cut deals w/ the establishment and basically sold out, and now that he's in office he's basically doing what the powerful, the rich, the interest groups that really call the shots in the country, want done.

> You mean cutting taxes on the rich while initiating a massive ground war

Both of which Obama continued. The Iraq withdrawal btw was plans drawn up during BushCo.

> undermining dictators through NATO actions with no boots on the ground

Aka starting yet another War for Oil. The US simply doesn't care about dictators, as long as they're "our bastards." Only if they have something we want, or are completely uncooperative in our scheme to militarily dominate and control their part of the world, do we demonize them and seek to regime change them.

So in fact, the proper way to assess Obama is that he continued all of Bush's wars, tried to complete the task of finishing the conquest and pacifying them, and even started new ones of his own.

> raising taxes on the upper class

He's just posturing for re-election purposes. He's not serious about it.

http://www.ianwelsh.net/tax-increases-on-the-rich/

And here is a link to his autobiography, that he personally wrote, in which he personally lays out the fact that he's not black.

https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-My-Father-Story-Inheritance/dp/1400082773/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1503411518&sr=8-7&keywords=Obama

I loved Dreams from My Father and [The Color of Water] (http://www.amazon.com/Color-Water-Tribute-Mother-Anniverary/dp/159448192X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417378244&sr=1-1&keywords=the+color+of+water), and they're relatively recent.

There are reasons some books become classics though - you should check out [Voices in the Mirror] (http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Mirror-Autobiography-Gordon-Parks/dp/0385266987/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417378538&sr=1-1&keywords=gordon+parks+autobiography), [Black Boy] (http://www.amazon.com/Black-Boy-Record-Childhood-Youth/dp/0061130249/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417378427&sr=1-1&keywords=black+boy), [Invisible Man] (http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man-Ralph-Ellison/dp/0679732764/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417378361&sr=1-1&keywords=invisible+man), and [Black Like Me] (http://www.amazon.com/Black-Like-John-Howard-Griffin/dp/0451234219/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417378875&sr=1-1&keywords=black+like+me) for instance

https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-My-Father-Story-Inheritance/dp/1400082773/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1479518293&sr=8-4&keywords=obama

http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-My-Father-Story-Inheritance/dp/1400082773

Read this - Find out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400082773

I havent read it so I dont know if it is good, but I do know it is about a psychopath.

Which facts are you questioning? Everything that I wrote is pretty well documented. You can read about all of it in Obama's autobiography if you have any doubts.