Newsweek's Special Election Project: Excerpt

[snurri]

The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."

There's a lot of interesting stuff there, and more coming, but this was my favorite.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

Lots of interesting stuff in there -- thanks for passing it along.

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, I feel much more secure somehow knowing that Obama would actually say "fucking." Like, it gives me permission to really believe in the Everyone chill the fuck out, I got this! poster?

[livia-llewellyn.livejournal.com]

The "Wasilla hillbillies" quote is my favorite.

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

Whereas I am positively gleeful at the hint of further unseely shopping revelations! Personal shopping with staffer credit cards, oh my!

I also really liked the intimation that Obama was apparently the one who didn't want to make a snap judgment on Hillary as veep.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

I have to comment again to note that I am in agreement with all of the above comments!!

Okay, I'm a little giddy today.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I feel exactly the same way. Also he clearly knows bullshit when he sees it.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

The schadenfreude there is thick 'n tasty :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

[snurri.livejournal.com]

What I love about Obama is that, aside from the fact that the man has a stirring and charismatic public face, he's also a guy who leads with brains and not ideology. God I've missed that.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I am alternating the giddiness with fresh tears of joy, because I'm bipolar like that.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

I think that's not so much bipolar as parallel-polar? I'm sure we'll crash soon enough, but right now I'm skipping from happy to happy as well.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

The first full installment is up now!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

The first full installment is up now!

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Obama dropping the F bomb! Not so praiseworthy, but I love the context and the admission of irritation with the media.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

*LOVE!!!!!!!!!!*

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

"Michelle was able to extract a promise: if he ran, her husband would have to quit smoking." Awesome!

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

And this: "[Axelrod] liked Obama in part because he could see that the candidate was unusually intelligent (especially, in his experience, for a politician coming out of the Illinois Statehouse)..."