On the February 3 edition of MSNBC's The Last Word, host Lawrence O'Donnell extolled the "honesty" of Obama's pre-presidency book, Dreams from My Father:
“Long before he was running for President, he had written the answer [to questions about past drug use] in a book called Dreams from My Father. It stands today as the finest literary work ever authored by a President of the United States. The book doesn’t contain the whole truth of Barack Obama’s life. Books can’t do that, but it is, by far, the most honest and open book, and artful book, ever written by a President.”