Parody
Parody "When I, a black man with a funny name, born in Hawaii of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, announced my candidacy for the U.S. Senate, it was hard to imagine a less likely...
...Senate, it was hard to imagine a less likely scenario than that I would win—except, perhaps, for the one that allowed a child born in the backwoods of Kentucky with less than a year of formal education to end up as Illinois's greatest citizen and our nation's greatest President...
...Time, July 4...
...In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat—in all this, he reminded me not just of my own struggles . . . . " —"What I See in Lincoln's Eyes," by Sen...
...Barack Obama (D-III...
Vol. 10 • June 2005 • No. 41
