Obama Beats Clinton
By The Big Grabowski
This is not some weird political article or prediction, at the 2008 Grammy Awards, the audiobook for Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream beat out Bill Clinton’s Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World for the Best Spoken Word Album. The award is Obama’s second, following his 2006 award for Dreams From My Father. Since 2005, President Bush’s first official year in his second term, a Democrat has won the award for Best Spoken Word Album every year (Bill Clinton won in 2005, Obama in ’06, Jimmy Carter in ’07, and Obama again in ’08). The Audacity of Hope focuses primarily on outlining Obama’s policies and views for the 2008 presidential election. Its title is drawn from the keynote address Obama gave at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, which focused on the fact that America isn’t just a land of white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant males, but for “laves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs”, “immigrants setting out for distant shores”, and “a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him.”
