Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Hope vs. hate
Congressperson Jasmine Crockett of Dallas speaking at the Democratic National Convention Watching the Democratic National Convention for the last couple of nights, I was struck by the amazing contrast to the recent Republican convention earlier this summer.
The Democrats are methodically laying out a vision of what can be, a future with some real advances toward a more equitable and free society.
The GOP, on the other hand, was a cult meeting where everyone’s key job was to praise their “glorious leader” and feed his ego.
It would be easy to characterize these two conventions as ‘hope vs. hate,” and, never one to take the difficult path, I will do just that.
