Obama finds no easy answers and plenty of contradictions and the problems of our time. But his other books include the breakthrough essay collection, my misspent youth and the unspeakable, which won the penn center usa award for creative nonfiction. Shes also received fellowships from the guggenheim and National Endowment for the arts fellowships and she teaches in the mfa writing program at columbia university. Thank you all for coming out. Im always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that really, actually earlier i was on a book tour i was in minneapolis, in st. Paul and it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university in minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about this went to see david who did errors except for one young woman who showed up at my event and she had driven 100 miles from her parents farm to come see me
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My weight today . Good evening and welcome to the 2019 liberty and justice celebration hosted by the Iowa Democratic party. For our floor guests, dinner is now served. Betty ering] thank you. Iowaank you to the entire Democratic Party team. It is an honor to be at your liberty and justice dinner. It is even a bigger honor to be in a room full of committed democrats. Including two mentors of mine, this gentleman, mr. Chairman, senator, mentor, tom, can you please stand up one more time . [crowd cheering] tom thank you. Forcan we please give it up your former governor, my former cabinet colleague and a life log mentor. Lifelong mentor, thank you governor. [crowd cheering] again, a big shout out to your congressional delegation, thank you so much, abby, and cindy storming to victory because you guys knocked on doors. They lead with their values, thank you. Thank you to my friend, thank you for my or service congressman. Thank you for everything you have done and best of luck. You do not k
Please welcome to the stage teethree. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you. Thank you iowa. Thank you Iowa Democratic party. Thank you fellow democrats. [cheers and applause] the first time i came to the state was as a volunteer to knock on doors for president ial candidate a young man with a funny name. [cheers and applause] and we knew the stakes were high then. The stakes are colossal now. If countries cannot afford more for more years that cannot recognize it. We know what is at stake and we know he will do everything he can to hold onto power. But if you nominate me his playbook will not work this time around. [cheers and applause] i dont get a golf course with my name on it while pretending to care about the working class. I dont even golf. I drive a chevy that was built in ohio by the very same workers this president has led down. [applause] and i dont go to work in an office in washington dc. It is six hours that way on iad. Here in the midwest. And we