Obama wins two Grammies

By Steve Sailer

10/11/2009

Seriously.

Barack Obama won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in both 2006 and 2008.

Here’s the list of Best Spoken Word Album winners for this decade from Wikipedia:

• Grammy Awards of 2009
  • Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood for An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
• Grammy Awards of 2008
  • Barack Obama for The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
• Grammy Awards of 2007
  • Jimmy Carter for Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis; and
  • Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee for With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (Tie)
• Grammy Awards of 2006
  • Barack Obama for Dreams from My Father
• Grammy Awards of 2005
  • Bill Clinton for My Life
• Grammy Awards of 2004
  • Paul Ruben (producer) & Al Franken for Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
• Grammy Awards of 2003
  • Charles B. Potter (producer) & Maya Angelou for A Song Flung Up to Heaven
• Grammy Awards of 2002
  • Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) & Elisa Shokoff (producer) & Quincy Jones for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
• Grammy Awards of 2001
  • Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
• Grammy Awards of 2000
  • LeVar Burton for The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hmmmhmm … you win the Grammy either for being a Democratic politician or for being black, so Obama, as is only right and fitting, has won two.

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