Be like Barry

Barry recently told a boy named Michael how to become President.

"Here's what you gotta do."

The steps to follow included...

"You have to work really hard in school and get really good grades."

Be like Barry...he indulged in marijuana, alcohol and sometimes cocaine as a high school student in Hawaii.

"You have to do everything that grandma tells you to do."

Be Like Barry and disrespect your Grandma by using her "fears" for political gain and then describe her as a "typical white person".

"When you get out of school, then you gotta go to college."

Be like Barry...smoking “reefer” in “the dorm room of some brother” and talked about “getting high.”

"After you go to college, you have to hopefully find a job that's helping other people, so that people appreciate that you're helping them, and they'll say that Michael will make a good president some day."

Be Like Barry...Fellow organizers say Sen. Obama took too much credit for his community organizing efforts. “As the 24-year-old mentor to public housing residents, Obama says he initiated and led efforts that thrust Altgeld’s asbestos problem into the headlines, pushing city officials to call hearings and a reluctant housing authority to start a cleanup. But others tell the story much differently. They say Obama did not play the singular role in the asbestos episode that he portrays in the best-selling memoir ‘Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.’ Credit for pushing officials to deal with the cancer-causing substance, according to interviews and news accounts from that period, also goes to a well-known preexisting group at Altgeld Gardens and to a local newspaper called the Chicago Reporter. Obama does not mention either one in his book.

"If you do all those things, then you just might be a president some day."

Not like Barry, I hope and the scientific community is united in that fact.