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cooolandrew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:27 AM
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Barack Obama has profound empathy
Barack made simple but funny joke at aipac ( yes I know aipac is a trigger word, but regardless). He made a joke if you see this guy called Barack they talk of in the media avoid him he sounds a scary guy. Now that's funny but just in that joke he can actually step into the mindset of a jewish person who may see him as unfriendly to Israel lighten the moment with humor but also speak to their fears. This man can reach unity in a myriad of ways because he can understand everyones fears from a very sophisticated intellect. This guy manges to impress me more everyday. Now some may say someone wrote it but overall performance would tell me it is his own joke.

Former professor to Sen. Obama..."Sen. Barack Obama was the most independent thinker I ever taught"
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:54 AM
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1. That coupled with a great gift of story teller, from an anthropology standpoint he is
Edited on Fri Jun-06-08 09:10 AM by Boz
A shaman or "one step from god".

Now don't jump on me I know the difference, I simply mean he has gifts that in studies of past cultures make great leaders of lifetimes.

Much of our loss of connection to those around us stems from the lack of stories shared between us, again on a strictly anthropological standpoint that is the urban blight and the very reason the Internet has succeeded, because it has fed the evolutionary need for those connections.

Obama touches people in a way they know by instinct in their racial (not black white but evolutionary) memories to know to be beneficial and in ancient and current ancestorialized cultures to often be revered for wisdom beyond.

Hillary and many other communicators and politicians have also, in some way, but in her case it was book learned, not intrinsic and thats what has set them apart.

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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 05:40 PM
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2. That last quote makes me feel impressed.
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