Website review: blog.pmarca.com: An hour and a half...
robdiana discovered this in Politics
•9 reviews since Mar 3, 2008
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robdiana discovered 5 months ago- From the page: "Early in 2007, a friend of mine who is active in both high-tech and politics called me up and said, let's go see this first-term Senator, Barack Obama, who's ramping up to run for President. And so we did -- my friend, my wife Laura, and me -- and we were able to meet privately with Senator Obama for an hour and a half."
- Rrrick rated 5 months ago
From the page : "One of the reasons Senator Obama comes across as so fresh and different is that he's the first serious presidential candidate who isn't either from the World War II era (Reagan, Bush Sr, Dole, and even McCain, who was born in 1936) or from the Baby Boomer generation (Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, and George W. Bush).
He's a post-Boomer. Most of the Boomers I know are still fixated on the 1960's in one way or another -- generally in how they think about social change, politics, and the government.
It's very clear when interacting with Senator Obama that he's totally focused on the world as it has existed since after the 1960's -- as am I, and as is practically everyone I know who's younger than 50."
It just hit me - Obama is my age. So rather than feel old right now, I'm telling myself how young Barack is to be running for president. I was expressing to my friend tonight how weird I felt changing my allegiance from Clinton to Obama - I was so sure that Hillary was the person for the job. But mid-campaign, I jumped on the Obama train. My friend told me to get over myself. He then informed me that I'm not nearly as important or smart as I think I am. Apparently, he doesn't know who I am.
- uriel1998 rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "'ve tried very hard to keep politics out of this blog -- despite nearly overpowering impulses to the contrary -- for two reasons: one, there's no reason to alienate people who don't share my political views, as wrong-headed as those people may clearly be; two, there's no reason to expect my opinion on political issues should be any more valid than any other reader of what, these days, passes for the New York Times. That said, in light of the extraordinary events playing out around us right now in the runup to the presidential election, I would like to share with you a personal experience that I was lucky enough to have early last year."
- kap07040 rated 5 months ago
- good article
- misstake rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer. If you were asking me to write a capsule description of what I would look for in the next President of the United States, that would be it. Having met him and then having watched him for the last 12 months run one of the best-executed and cleanest major presidential campaigns in recent memory, I have no doubt that Senator Obama has the judgment, bearing, intellect, and high ethical standards to be an outstanding president -- completely aside from the movement that has formed around him, and in complete contradiction to the silly assertions by both the Clinton and McCain campaigns that he's somehow not ready."
- Birks79 rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "What's the picture that emerges from these four impressions? Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer. If you were asking me to write a capsule description of what I would look for in the next President of the United States, that would be it. Having met him and then having watched him for the last 12 months run one of the best-executed and cleanest major presidential campaigns in recent memory, I have no doubt that Senator Obama has the judgment, bearing, intellect, and high ethnical standards to be an outstanding president -- completely aside from the movement that has formed around him, and in complete contradition to the silly assertions by both the Clinton and McCain campaigns that he's somehow not ready."
- onreact-com rated 5 months ago
- "Early in 2007, a friend of mine who is active in both high-tech and politics called me up and said, let's go see this first-term Senator, Barack Obama, who's ramping up to run for President. And so we did -- my friend, my wife Laura, and me -- and we were able to meet privately with Senator Obama for an hour and a half."
