Barack Obama
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People talk about me being the first digital president, and that's true.
Obviously, the internet existed before me.
But when I came into office in 2009, the smartphone was not yet widely around.
And so the smartphone comes out around 2010.
Facebook, Twitter, a lot of social media is just taking off.
It seemed optimistic.
So there's all this sense of this is human connection.
My campaign wouldn't work.
I joke about the fact that I was an early adapter of all this social media, not because, by the way, I was so smart.
It was that my campaign was broke enough that I had to rely on a bunch of 20 and 25-year-olds volunteering in our office.
And they'd say like, hey –
Senator, this is a website.
And I say, oh, a website, great.
And say, so you can have pictures, and you can have even video on there.