ariverisariver: The WTF with Barack Obama was a pleasant surprise. I expected a closely-guarde
ariverisariver: The WTF with Barack Obama was a pleasant surprise. I expected a closely-guarded polite conversation peppered with softballs, and I wouldn’t have begrudged either Maron or Obama for that, what with the novelty of a President appearing on a podcast.Instead what I got was an only slightly guarded conversation with a man that is firmly aware of his place in history and comfortable talking about the frustrations of nearly 7 years of leading this country.Obama’s aloofness that typically gets tagged as coldness or superiority was on display (and they actually discussed it), but through it I gained a new perspective on what it must be like to be in the position that he’s in in one of the most politically fractured points in our history.Really well done. -- source link