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September 21, 2008

Barack Obama - Q&A With Google Employees

This question and answer session is from last November but Barack Obama does a good job of describing his philosophy and political viewpoints.

He reiterates John Kennedy's statement that we should never negotiate out of fear but we should never fear to negotiate, and the fallacy that refusing to talk to our enemies makes us look "tough", when it actually makes us look arrogant.

His tone is very good - reassuring, inclusive and hopeful.

He talks about the importance of early childhood education, K-12 and the importance of teachers and rewarding them for being great by paying them higher salaries and making college more affordable.

I just think it's cool that he can articulate so many intelligent thoughts on a broad range of topics, with such ease - we need a smart guy like that in office.

September 19, 2008

Obama 08