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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We don't have to scapegoat each other.
We could actually...
try to find common ground and work together to do some good.
Well, yeah, for folks who come to visit, the first thing they'll actually see is, in the museum, is a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
And...
And a pretty long description and displays of the struggle to realize that ideal that's embodied in the Declaration.
But hopefully what they'll also see, even when the exhibits are about my presidency, that there were people who disagreed with what I did.
There was a lot of unfinished business in my presidency.
And you talk about that.
And that there was something like the Tea Party that emerges during my presidency, and it's useful for people to understand where does that come from.
But I do think it's important to ground what happened during my presidency in this broader sweep of American history.
And as I said before...
You know, this idea that, you know, on the right, and you see this in the Trump administration, this idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic.
Is a suggestion that you hate your country.
Now, the flip side is, among progressives, sometimes there is this sense of, well...
the only true narrative of America is this one of oppression and exclusion.
And I reject both those views.
I think it's complicated.
As I said, I think it's possible to celebrate the founders and appreciate what they did, as well as look objectively and critically at...
how their values strayed very far from what they professed.
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