[mdittmar]

First landlord was AWOL,roomed with illegal immigrant,got high,attended socialist conferences,didn't like white rich people.

By God,he's the perfect dem Presidential nominee;)

[firebrand]

The apartment was small, with slanting floors

Ah, one of the East Side's charming old-law tenements, where the floors on the two sides of the building slope toward the center. Now renting at a lower rate than Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

[MaxMax]

Obama reads like the ultimate Sleeper to me.

[SuziQ]

Obama, who writes in his best-selling memoir

A best seller huh? I've never seen it anywhere. Who exactly bought this best seller?

[Lurking in Kansas]

... it bothered him to be the only black executive, he wrote, so he quit. Soon after, Obama lit out for a $13,000-a-year job as a community organizer in Chicago - where his destiny awaited.

Yeah, right. BARF.

[LIConFem]

His "Sleeper Cell" years?