Ok, so I know it seems as though I swill so much Obama Kool-Aid that I'm almost a 
citzen of either Illinois or Kenya, really this post is pure coincidence. And btw, it's
not my fault that
's he's so authentic, eloquent, and honest. Reminds me of a candidate for the 5th in Minnesota in some ways.
So Barack's new book is coming out soon and an email went out with a link to an excerpt. I hastily read through it and it's pretty great. Here's a little teaser talking about his time in the Illinois legislature:
Occasionally, I would partner up with even my most conservative colleagues to pass a piece of legislation, and over a poker game or a beer we might conclude that we had more in common than we publicly cared to admit. Which perhaps explains why, throughout my years in Springfield, I had clung to the notion that politics could be different, and that the voters wanted something different; that they were tired of distortion, name-calling, and sound-bite solutions to complicated problems; that if I could reach those voters directly, frame the issues as I felt them, explain the choices in as truthful a fashion as I knew how, then the people’s instincts for fair play and common sense would bring them around. If enough of us took that risk, I thought, not only the country’s politics, but the country’s policies, would change for the better.
Here's a link to the whole excerpt - enjoy, Happy Friday, and a hat tip to the JoyMowl ;-)