Obama says something that impresses me
I am no Obama fan – my readers know that pretty well. However, he used to (pre-2004ish) occasionally say things that impressed me a lot.
Check out this short clip. It contains perhaps the best line delivered by a President in my life time – it’s from March of last year, but I hadn’t seen it until now.
It seems that he got a question that didn’t have a pre-fab answer in the corporate war machine script, so he had to kinda adlib.
Is there a more important maxim for a President (or any decision maker) than knowing what he or she is talking about? It has become fashionable to be immediate and wrong instead of deliberative and right. Only after adopting the latter habit can a person develop a worldview and moral compass on which to act. Perhaps we can yet expect these to emerge in the Obama administration.
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Posted by Schematic Diagram : on October 31st, 2010.