John McCain and Barack Obama are Authors too

Posted by
Tel Asiado
Nov 4, 2008

Today, November 4, 2008, is the 56th presidential election of the United States. The whole world is watching with excitement and eagerness - for various reasons. God bless America! In half a century, this is the first time that the sitting president is not a candidate on his party's ticket. Both McCain and Obama are sitting senators.

This blog is focused on them as writers and not as presidential candidates. For those unaware that Barack Obama and John McCain are authors, yes, they are! Best-selling authors at that!

In 1999, McCain was on a book tour for his memoir Faith of My Fathers, at the same on campaign path for the 2000 election. In his 2002 second memoir, Worth Fighting For, he wrote:

"I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms. I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to become president."

In 1995, Barack Obama wrote his first memoir, Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, before he began his political career. His second book, Audacity of Hope, (2006), has been considered by some as his "thesis ouvre" for the presidency. This book and his speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention brought him to attention. He wrote:

"I reject a politics that is based solely on racial identity, gender identity, sexual orientation, or victimhood generally. I think much of what ails the inner city involves a breakdown in cutlute that will not be cured by money alone, and that our values and spiritual matter at least as much as our GDP."

Perhaps, one of them can continue writing blockbusters. Well, whoever loses the election. Just a thought. Wishing them the best.