A History of Disappointment
Jackson Lears: Obama’s Parents, 5 January 2012
The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father
by Sally Jacobs.
Public Affairs, 336 pp., £20, July 2011,978 1 58648 793 5 Show More
by Sally Jacobs.
Public Affairs, 336 pp., £20, July 2011,
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother
by Janny Scott.
Riverhead, 384 pp., £18.99, May 2011,978 1 59448 797 2 Show More
by Janny Scott.
Riverhead, 384 pp., £18.99, May 2011,
“... an ‘example of unfair burden sharing’ and ‘using a hatchet when you need a scalpel’ when John McCain proposed it during the campaign of 2008. In the same speech, Obama embraced the false analogy between federal budgets and household budgets, overlooking (for starters) the government’s control of taxation and the money supply. ‘Families across the ... ”