re: #57 Millicent Islam

Jimmah and I were reading that this morning. Crazy! Apparently Obama was not only a pot smoker, he was an innovator. //

Supposedly Maraniss’ book actually paints a positive portrait of Obama’s early life, but the publisher, Simon & Schuster, is promoting it through periodically leaking out only the more salacious bits. To some extent maybe they’re doing the left a favor, as even the most charitable books in recent years are never reported as such — they’re combed for political incendiary, out of context snippets by both the right and the media, and the bulk of the book beyond those snippets is ignored. Heck, even Dreams from My Father only comes up these days when the RW blogosphere has run yet another keyword search against it to rebut some new Romney controversy :P.

The book comes out June 19th.