Another thing I liked about Obama
I don’t like Obama’s centrist politics and how that centrism hobbled the Democratic Party. But he had dignity and grace. He didn’t have to have a minion tell people to address his with deference. They just naturally did. . He was what Tom Wolfe would call “a man in full” unlike this shallow, craven nit wt we have now.
thank you Jason. Obama was the best! ok, a little more push-back against the corporations would have been good. but he might have been the last reasonable and sophisticated person ever to be president. left or right, the future of American politics is going go be weird. the left might be better, but idiocracy all around.
He was and is “a man in full.” He had to thread a very small needle as well: Don’t come across as a scary, angry black man that’s going to rape your daughters; speak to people as adults using the depth of your knowledge and words of more than one syllable without being thought of as an uppity black man; have a self-deprecating and quick sense of humor; ad infinitum. How did we get from THERE to HERE??
I know, right Insane.