Hi you, This newsletter will be a bit different. My newsletters have been a bit irregular of late because life has been a bit irregular of late. This month, I hosted the Obama Foundation’s Democracy Forum in Chicago. As part of that, I got to do a 15-minute one-on-one with former President Obama. It was a major, major deal.
Happy Thanksgiving to you both, B. And how come we did not meet at YK 2006? Jim and I were founders. . . I am relieved to hear President Obama say he thinks our problems are solvable on all the named fronts, and that he sees the necessity of accepting competing narratives as the source of common ground. It's pretty invisible to me, and I have a few lenses. . I grew up during the pre-Reagan USA, when it was generally accepted that the purpose of government is to promote the common good. Reagan's administration, in which I worked, disabused me of that notion. And now we are trying to get back to where we once belonged, only better. Picking up the dropped people. . .Take it easy...
Happy Thanksgiving to you both, B. And how come we did not meet at YK 2006? Jim and I were founders. . . I am relieved to hear President Obama say he thinks our problems are solvable on all the named fronts, and that he sees the necessity of accepting competing narratives as the source of common ground. It's pretty invisible to me, and I have a few lenses. . I grew up during the pre-Reagan USA, when it was generally accepted that the purpose of government is to promote the common good. Reagan's administration, in which I worked, disabused me of that notion. And now we are trying to get back to where we once belonged, only better. Picking up the dropped people. . .Take it easy...
dear baratunde,
thank you for all of this, as always! i agree with obama: you are somebody that i ALSO need to know!
love,
myq