This is a diary about Barack Obama chronicling the events from September 17, 2008 through the passage of health care reform in March 2010. The perspective that I bring is from the lens of an almost seventy year old African American born and raised in the South as segregation breathed its last breath ... so I thought. The primary purpose of these musings was to provide an outlet, a cathartic relief from the daily machinations of an opposition that virulently and relentlessly attacked the first Black President of the United States of America. This was the feeble effort of an almost...

As an Afro-American septuagenarian who has no access to power, no access to a treasure trove of Administration documents, I can only present my impressions, my feelings, and my perspective from what I read, listen to and see in the general media. My perspective is colored by an exceptional sense of pride for the first Afro-American President of these United States. I am biased by the oratorical poetry that has swayed me over the last several years; I am biased by the intellectual prowess and quick study of a man who has stepped into extraordinarily challenging circumstances and has performed...

Volume III of The Diary will cover the last ten months of the 2012 campaign. The President is either successful in getting a second term or the demons who escaped from Cerberus will prevail. If the latter succeeds, God help America This is the battle for the soul of America We will either have an America that is, an America that "shall not perish from the earth" as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently pronounced in his Gettysburg Address. Or, we will have a desolate country that is 'of the corporation, by the lobbyists for the plutocrats', a country that after only 250 years will have devolved...