The first time I met Barack Obama—I should say the only time I’ve met Barack Obama—was a year ago, when he was doing fifty-person-cocktail-party fund-raisers. He flattered me by saying, “My intention is to steal a lot of your lines.” My prediction is he’s just going to blow the doors off the place in Denver. This is a man who—the Jeremiah Wright of it all aside—was clearly paying attention in church. I don’t need to tell you that I’m a big fan of oratory. A big part of leadership is the goose-bump experience. We’ve been missing that.
Yeah, I just reblogged another quote from this interview, but this is good enough to blog too. I love Sorkin. I want him to do another tv show, especially an HBO show. And I could not agree with him more here. I too am a big fan of oratory, and the last eight years have been missing it, at least from a presidential perspective.
