~ EXCERPT ~ It turns out Barack Obama was dreaming big right from an early age - at just nine-years-old he announced he was going to be the prime minister of Indonesia. The episode from a new biography of the president's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, reveals the roots of a hunger for power which has driven Mr Obama's heady rise from an eccentric upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia to the White House. It will bring a wry smile to the faces of 'birthers', who are not satisfied he was born in the U.S. In A Singular Woman: The Untold Story...
