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Let me first state that I like Barack Obama. I've even contributed to his Presidential campaign, not easy for one who lives on Social Insecurity. I am also a raging liberal who started life as an "America-right-or-wrong" conservative but who was so radicalized by a tour in Vietnam that on my return, except for the crazed excess of Lenin and Stalin, I would have proudly joined the Communist Party. Nevertheless, I'm saddened to report that "The Audacity of Hope" is so boring as to make one pray for the gift of blindness. In my life, I've read from cover-to-cover with relish books most would describe as crushingly boring, such as "Being And Nothingness" by Jean-Paul Sarte and "The Database Relational Model" by E.F. Codd. "The Audacity of Hope" is the only book I've tried reading that I've been unable to finish. It is world class insipid, an Inane Literature Hall of Fame slam dunk, a book that deserves its own entry in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" for its ability to induce comatose sleep, a book that should have a chapter devoted to it's mind-scrambling white noise in the American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders." I still like Obama and hope this book was ghost-written. If not...mere words fail me. If you admire Barack Obama, don't read this book. Try instead to promote the idea that it was written by a different Barack Obama.