{"id":93,"date":"2007-11-01T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2007-11-30T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T03:02:44","slug":"barack-obama-reflecting-on-the-desire-to-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Reflecting on the Desire to Be President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]On ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bzecb7Qe6vo&amp;e\">Senator Obama discusses the hubris a person needs to believe that he or she can be president<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think if you don&#8217;t have enough self-awareness to see the element of megalomania involved in thinking you can be president then you probably shouldn&#8217;t be president. . .There&#8217;s a slight madness to thinking you should be the leader of the free world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watching this reminds me of half of the reason I support Barack Obama: the less important half which involves his personal appeal and charisma.   I can&#8217;t imagine another candidate in the present or past speaking like this, providing a genuine insight into the campaign process and himself on purpose.  Most of the time when the &#8220;real&#8221; candidates are revealed, it involves them making mistakes &#8211; either in front of a camera, or mistakes so serious the matter ends up in court.  The definition of a <em>gaffe<\/em> in Washington is when a politician is accidentally honest.<\/p>\n<p>Obama talks in a way no other politician does.  Not because he is an inherently better person but because he is of a different generation.  The lessons of the past 20 years of cultural warfare don&#8217;t seem to apply to Obama; he transcends them because he lived through them.  Somewhere in this is the core of Obama&#8217;s appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The video is after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the clip from ABC:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bzecb7Qe6vo&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]On ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, Senator Obama discusses the hubris a person needs to believe that he or she can be president: I think if you don&#8217;t have enough self-awareness to see the element of megalomania involved in thinking you can be president then you probably shouldn&#8217;t be president. . .There&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}