Barack Obama
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Like that's your starting point.
And first of all, if you understand your convictions, you got a moral compass, you got a code, you've spent time wrestling with what it is that you care about and what you believe.
Then it's a lot easier now to be open and actually listen to other people as opposed to constantly trying to beat off โ
anybody who might contradict your current perspective.
And I think a guy like him, his starting point is, let me say what I believe.
And it doesn't mean that anybody in public life, and by the way, anybody who's married, anybody who's in a relationship, it doesn't mean that you can't practice the art of diplomacy, that you can't say it in ways that
Are more likely to be received.
But I think now more than ever, what people long for, and the word authenticity gets overused, I think.
What people long for is some core integrity that seems absent.
Just a sense that, ah, you know, the person seems to...
walk the walk.
It doesn't just talk the talk.
And sometimes it's going to be uncomfortable.
Look, and I think that that's...
Um, you know, there's been a lot of post-mortem about Democrats and progressives and, you know, I saw, you know, your, your standup where you said, you know, uh, you know,
We figured out how to be so annoying.