[outpostinmass2]

The Dr. died in 2003. Obama wasn't elected to the U.S. Senate until 2004. In fact Obama really was an unknown until he gave the keynote speech at the DNC in 2004.

Obama would just have been on of the thousands of babies the Dr. delivered.

[jerseyrocks]

But why did Dr. West remember him, who according to the BC, wasn’t the doctor who delivered him? Obama and his family were well known before his politics in Hawaii correct? Accounts from the present Hawaiian Governor and Dr. West back that up. And what year was “Dreams From My Father” released?