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Barack Obama’s trademark schtick — soaring rhetoric about transformational change while cynically catering to the status quo — was on display at COP26 in his address to young people. But young people already learned the hard way that Obama’s act is hollow.
while it’s certainly embarrassing to revisit the naive earnestness of November 2008 more than ten years on, it’s also worth remembering the extent to which Obama and his campaign quite deliberately stoked expectations and communicated their mission in transcendent terms. In retrospect, some of us probably should have known better. But the conservative course charted by the president and his administration from the very outset genuinely did come as a surprise
in Obama’s world, there is still nothing duplicitous about having once promised to stop the rising of the oceans and boastfully taking credit for America’s oil-and-gas boom after leaving office, just as there’s nothing hypocritical about the alumni network of what was once Hope and Change Inc. fanning out to lucrative corporate perches at the likes of McDonald’s, Uber, and Amazon.
while it’s certainly embarrassing to revisit the naive earnestness of November 2008 more than ten years on, it’s also worth remembering the extent to which Obama and his campaign quite deliberately stoked expectations and communicated their mission in transcendent terms. In retrospect, some of us probably should have known better. But the conservative course charted by the president and his administration from the very outset genuinely did come as a surprise
in Obama’s world, there is still nothing duplicitous about having once promised to stop the rising of the oceans and boastfully taking credit for America’s oil-and-gas boom after leaving office, just as there’s nothing hypocritical about the alumni network of what was once Hope and Change Inc. fanning out to lucrative corporate perches at the likes of McDonald’s, Uber, and Amazon.