[KarlInOhio]

Obama said in the interview. "Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up

The only way Obama would have "picked up" Atlas Shrugged when he was 17 was if someone had stacked it on top of his signed copy of Das Kapital. And even then he would have held it like a dead fish... well, a dead tuna.

I'm Head of State Thompson and I heartily endorse Obama's redistributionist policies.

[Bshaw]

“Obama said in the interview. “Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up.”

I picked it up at 39. Which is probably when I had the necessary life experiences necessary to appreciate it.