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Random Sun Feb 10 2008
Barack Obama: Grammy Award Winner
That's right, add a Grammy Award to Barack Obama's list of achievements. Sunday, at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards (well, at the pre-show where they hand out all the other awards), the Illinois Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate beat out two former U.S. Presidents for the Best Spoken Word award. Obama won for the spoken word edition of his book The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream, beating Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter along with Maya Angelou and Alan Alda who rounded out the category which includes poetry, audio books and story telling. [Insert comment about somebody Baracking something else here.]