Barack Obama
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4,433 appearances
175 recordings
60 series
first heard Dec 2012
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Barack Obama’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we don't need to take care of the vulnerable and we don't need to make public investments in our kids.
That story's always been there.
And I think sometimes we get confused in thinking that
these two stories are completely separate.
They're intertwined, right?
Which is why it's possible for me to be a great admirer of George Washington and also acknowledge he was a slaveholder.
And that does not negate his greatness.
It simply acknowledges
that there's a profound deep flaw in these founding fathers who were also geniuses and gave us these tools, which is true of all of us, right?
It's true of every president, that we're this mixed bag.
We've got contradictions.
and embody the country's contradictions.
And so I do think that what's striking is right now we've got a president in the White House who seems to have embraced and embodied, in a way we haven't seen in a very long time, this other story.
And
I don't know if it makes it more important, but I am glad that we are planting a flag, that we are hopefully creating a repository, a vessel through which people can be reminded of this better story.
Maybe a way to think about the Presidential Center and what at least we tried to create
is some touchstones, some markers, some tools for people to just be reminded of, oh yeah, this is what our democracy is.
This is who we are.
We don't have to distrust each other.
We don't have to hate each other.
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