Here is more of what Obama says in The Audacity of Hope:

Page 10 of the Prologue

"I am a Democrat after all; my views on most topics correspond more closely to the editorial pages of the New York Times than to those of the Wall Street Journal.

*I am angry about policies that consistently favor the wealthy and powerful over the average Americans and (I)insist that government has an important role in opening up opportunity to all.

*I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry and global warming.

*I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs – including my own – on nonbelievers.

*Furthermore I am a prisoner of my own biography: I can't help but view the American experience through the lens of a black man of mixed heritage, forever mindful of generations of people who looked like me were subjugated and stigmatized, and the subtle and the not so subtle ways that race and class continue to shape our lives.

But that is not all I am. I also think my party can be smug, detached and dogmatic at times.

*I believe in the free market, competition and entrepreneurship, and think no small number of government programs don't work as advertised.

*I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

*I think America has more often been a force for good than for ill in the world;

*I carry few illusions about our enemies, and revere the courage and competence of our military.

*I reject a politics that is based solely on racial identity, gender identity, sexual orientation or victimhood generally.

*I think much of what ails our inner city involves a breakdown in culture that will not be cured by money alone, and that our values and spiritual life matter at least as much as our GDP.

"Undoubtedly some of these views will get me in trouble. I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them."

Emphases mine. Eb