Now he's really made it. Obama out with kids book

[onehandle]

Source: AP



NEW YORK – He's the leader of the free world, and he's won a Nobel Peace Prize. But only now, by one measure, is Barack Obama finally truly famous: He's written a children's book.

With "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters," a picture book for readers three and up that hit bookstores Tuesday (it was announced in September), the president joins a long list of famous folk who've penned children's books: Madonna, John Travolta, Katie Couric, Will Smith. Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jay Leno. Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin, John Lithgow.

Even Obama's current secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, wrote one — when she was first lady, a book of children's letters to White House pets. The late Ted Kennedy wrote about Washington as viewed by his dog. On the other side of the political spectrum, conservative commentator Glenn Beck published a Christmas picture book last year, and Lynne Cheney has written several children's books.

Obama, who is donating his proceeds to a scholarship fund for children of disabled and fallen soldiers administered by the Fisher House Foundation, isn't even the only president to pen a children's book. Theodore Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter wrote books for young people, and John F. Kennedy had a young readers edition of his "Profiles in Courage."

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More 'socialist indoctrination' of our youth.

[babylonsister]

1. Social indoctrination-a letter to his daughters? Get lost; that's lame. nt

[bertman]

2. Your sarcasm meter appears to be broken, babylonsister. I wish our President had spent his

book writing time talking with unemployed Americans who are losing their homes. Maybe then he would have written a book about sending Wall Street criminals to jail. My grandkids will appreciate that a lot more--when they grow up, of course.

[shraby]

3. If he did that, he'd be criticized for influencing the DOJ if

they ever decide to prosecute the perps.

[northernlights]

4. +1.0 x 10^10 nt

[AlinPA]

5. I think the book was done in 2008. See link here. nt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Thee_I_Sing_(book)

[sarcasmo]

7. Exactly, very little talk of jobs yet he has time to write a book.

[Demeter]

6. I'd rather have Universal Single Payer Healthcare

and several hundred white collar criminals and war criminals in jail....

but that's just me, I suppose.