Posted on 09/14/2010 1:53:56 AM PDT by RobinMasters
NEW YORK (AP) -- Coming two weeks after Election Day, a book from President Barack Obama for some of the nation's nonvoters: inspirational stories for children about American pioneers.
"Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters" is a tribute to 13 groundbreaking Americans, from the first president, George Washington, to baseball great Jackie Robinson to artist Georgia O'Keeffe. It will be released Nov. 16 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, which will officially announce the new work Tuesday. Knopf declined to identify the other 10 subjects.
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Suppose Bill Ayres wrote this one too ?
Maybe he shoud be reading economics 101 instead of trying to bolster his image with a children’s book.
“It is an honor to publish this extraordinary book, which is an inspiring marriage of words and images, history and story,” Gibson said Monday in a statement. “’Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters’ celebrates the characteristics that unite all Americans - the potential to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths.”
imagine that, writes about history when he himself doesn’t seem to have any
Georgia O’Keeffe?
He taught his daughters to goose step?
So when did he find the time (or interest) to get off the golf course to “write” this cr*p?
Sarah’s new book comes out one week after - should be a good battle of the books.
Sarah has the advantage, however, because most libs don’t have many kids any more.
Sarah’s new book comes out one week after - should be a good battle of the books.
Sarah has the advantage, however, because most libs don’t have many kids any more.
5,000,000,000
greedy fatcat author
“celebrates the characteristics that unite all Americans” - have we ever had a “first family” with less “American” names? Michelle seems to be the only American in the bunch.
People will NOT like this idea of him writing a book while he SHOULD be concentrating on JOBS....JOBS.....JOBS!!
Hmmmm hmmmm hmmmmm. So, it’s not an autobiography?
He is out of focus according to Jobs. Or was that middle east peice? Or decreasing Health sCare cost?
Obama’s Youth Brigade.
I bety it's 6 and 6....whites and blacks.
Did you say the title was “Of Me I Sing”?
And based on her views and papers she wrote in college, that's questionable at best.
Obama agreed with Random House in 2004 to write a children's book, which, according to the publisher, he completed before he became president. "Of Thee I Sing" is part of a $1.9 million, three-book deal with Random House reached in 2004, according to a disclosure report filed in 2005, when Obama was a U.S. senator from Illinois. The other two books were nonfiction.
A financial disclosure form released by the White House in May 2010 refers to an agreement - originated in 2004, amended on Jan. 9, 2009, shortly before Obama became president - for a "nonfiction work, the subject to be determined," that would not come out while he was in office.
Yuck. Who would actually buy this for their kids?
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