I Knew Barack Obama, Absolutely. And I

When You Go Into A College Of Education You've Got Aspirations Of Making A Difference In People's Lives, Of Loving Children, Of Working With Kids, But None Of That Is Affirmed In Your College Of Education. Then You Go Working In Schools, Especially In Places Like New York City And Chicago That I'm Most Familiar With, And You Find These Huge Aspirations Are Beaten Out Of You In A Very Systematic Way - And Still People Persevere.

I'd Been Arrested Many Times By Then. I'd Been An Organizer, So Many Things Had Changed Over Those Three Years [from 1965 Till 1968].

Andrew Breitbart, Self-described Media Mogul, Had Several Screws Loose Or Missing And Was The Grinning Bomb-thrower Of The Radical Right. He Was The Attack Dog Kept On A Tight Leash And Brought Out On Special Occasions To Hiss And To Menace.

Certainly My Parents Were Dr. [benjamin] Spock-driven Parents. So They Were Tolerant.

I'm Anti-establishment. So All The Labels, The Reason That I Keep Joking And Rejecting This Idea That I'm Liberal, Well Partly That's Because I Think Of Myself As A Radical, And By That I Mean, Not Even In The Terms Of Left-right That You Might Imagine - But Someone Who Wants To Go To The Root Of Problems.