Student asks Obama about cynicism and gets a 10 minute rant that nails it

[redqueen]

Just saw this and found it inspiring so...

"This is the greatest country on earth, but only because we have great citizens who are willing to invest their time and energy and effort to become informed on the issues, to argue about it in a respectful way, and to try to collectively solve the many challenges we face."

[CurtEastPoint]

1. We were truly blessed to have him and I wish he were still leading us

[niyad]

8. Are you unhappy with Joe?

[betsuni]

9. What's the difference?

[Cha]

2. TY & former President

Obama 💕💙🌊🇺🇸🕯️🕊️

[IronLionZion]

3. Very thoughtful and inspiring talk

[KS Toronado]

4. Never heard TSF talk like this, pretty sure I never will.

[Disaffected]

5. Why refer to it with a denigrating word such as "rant"?? nt

[RussBLib]

6. Obama called his own talk here a rant

So, in that sense, he's just repeating what Obama said about his own long answer.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[Disaffected]

10. I think the meaning & implications of the term

depend a lot on who is saying it - Obama himself or a commentator. When Obama says it, I would think of it more as self- deprecating humour but derogatory otherwise (at least that's the way it sounds to me).

[redqueen]

11. The person who uploaded it probably used it because Obama did

I used the title of the video

Shame to distract from such a great rant with quibbling isn't it?

[ShazzieB]

7. I really enjoyed this!

I would quibble with characterizing this as a "rant," even though he called it that himself, lol. But it was excellent.

I don't know what I love more about "No Drama Obama," his brilliant mind or his calm, soothing way of explaining hard stuff, but the combination is powerful!

[mahina]

12. I wonder when this was filmed? Ah, about 10 years ago.

Still true to this day. Does the heart good, mahalo ā nui loa.

[mahina]

13. I am pinning this to the top of...everything!