Obama goes before a bunch of Republicans and takes questions and gives answers here. These days it’s easy to slip back into thinking the American political process is horribly broken, and will always stay broken. And maybe it will. Because I can’t fathom how such a reasonable approach, such a good attitude, and such a clear and practical vision, could meet with the results it’s currently meeting with.
In other words: if a guy stands up and says: I want to be reasonable. We need to actually work on stuff instead of trying to ‘win’, and here’s a bunch of examples of that. And the response to this plea is the same sort of idiotic point-scoring and grandstanding — then I don’t know what more can be done. If you have somebody smart, civil, and reasonable, and you find the response to intelligence and civility and reasonableness is just running into a fucking wall over and over, well, maybe it’s true. Maybe nothing better than what we currently have is possible.
Still, this Q&A video is inspiring, if only in the sense that you probably sometimes think, as I do: why can’t somebody be elected president who’s not a complete fucktard, who actually has a modicum of sense, a modicum of articulateness? Why can’t somebody get elected who’s at least as competent as I am?
For better or worse, that person has been elected. You can watch him action at the link above. Enjoy him while he’s here.