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Power, Self-Interest Key Principles for Obama

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Barack Obama, Politwix Blogs

In an eye-opening portrait of Obama written by Ryan Lizza of the New Republic, Lizza examines Obama’s political roots.
 ” Every strain of black political thought seemed to converge in Chicago in the 1980s. It was the intellectual center of black nationalism, the base both for Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns and for Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of […]