Any real discussion of Barack Hussein Obama—his remarkable parentage, upbringing in Hawaii, Kansas, and the Philippines, elite education, political defeats and victories, and personal drives and demons—is incomplete without consideration of Steve Sailer's 2009 book-length analysis of the man, his writings, and speeches in "America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance." Sailer looks closely at the many significant differences between Obama's image as meticulously crafted by master political tactician David Axelrod, the self-created and oddly cloaked hero of Obama's 1995 memoir "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," and the real man as only occasionally glimpsed when caught without his mask firmly in place.
Sailer took the title, not only because it was in the popular lexicon but also due to Obama's almost embarrassingly obvious race-consciousness even as he declared "There is not a black America and a white America...there's the United States of America." Eventually, from early on as Sailer argues, and as the Tom Wolfe title says, Obama went "Back to Blood." Sailer's title and Obama's dilemma (and golden opportunity) came because of the extreme whiteness of the mother and the extreme African blackness of the father producing a fascinating amalgam that perfectly demonstrates the eternal rift at the heart of this country.
Any real discussion of Barack Hussein Obama—his remarkable parentage, upbringing in Hawaii, Kansas, and the Philippines, elite education, political defeats and victories, and personal drives and demons—is incomplete without consideration of Steve Sailer's 2009 book-length analysis of the man, his writings, and speeches in "America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance." Sailer looks closely at the many significant differences between Obama's image as meticulously crafted by master political tactician David Axelrod, the self-created and oddly cloaked hero of Obama's 1995 memoir "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," and the real man as only occasionally glimpsed when caught without his mask firmly in place.
your bias shows thru when you must include the name hussein in speaking about obama
I simply cut and pasted the name from the Wikipedia entry on the man. (I was afraid of mispeling Barrack...)
Half blood prince. Gtfoh with that dog whistle garbage.
Take it up with J.K. Rowling...
you realize that in harry potter it was Snapes way of heading off the bigotry against him because he was of mixed blood.
I don't read kids' books. Sorry.
Sailer took the title, not only because it was in the popular lexicon but also due to Obama's almost embarrassingly obvious race-consciousness even as he declared "There is not a black America and a white America...there's the United States of America." Eventually, from early on as Sailer argues, and as the Tom Wolfe title says, Obama went "Back to Blood." Sailer's title and Obama's dilemma (and golden opportunity) came because of the extreme whiteness of the mother and the extreme African blackness of the father producing a fascinating amalgam that perfectly demonstrates the eternal rift at the heart of this country.
Another informed voter.