Remember when Sarah Palin said that she was "thankful that the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the Vice President if the Vice President so chose to exert it"? And then, do you remember when she told that little kid that the Vice President was "in charge of the United States' Senate, so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes"?
Yikes. That was a close one, America.
In contrast, below is a clip of Barack Obama explaining what being President means to him. It's from an interview he did in October 2006 while promoting his book, The Audacity of Hope. Watching it in hindsight, it's pretty clear that, by this point, he had already decided to run for President. So, it's quite possible that he had been preparing these anwers for some time. But that doesn't stop his comments from making me believe that President-Elect Obama: (1) Is cool as hell; (2) Actually understands what he's gotten himself into; and (3) Knows who he works for. That's what's up.
I think we picked a winner, folks!
I thoroughly recommend watching the rest of this interview. I recently caught it in its entirety on C-SPAN2 and, not surprisingly, Obama drops about an hour of really impressive, resonant, thoughtful, and eloquent progressive political fire. Here's a link to the whole thing or you can watch it in pieces on YouTube.
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