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  • Publication Year : November 17, 2020
  • Publisher : Crown Publishing Group
  • Author: Barack Obama
  • Language: English
A Promised land PDF : To Michelle my love and life’s partner and Malia and Sasha—whose dazzling light makes everything brighter
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CHAPTER 5

ON A BRIGHT FEBRUARY MORNING in 2007, I stood on a stage before the Old State
Capitol in Springfield—the same spot where Abe Lincoln had delivered his
“House Divided” speech while serving within the Illinois state legislature—and
announced my candidacy for president. With temperatures within the low teens, we’d
been worried that the cold might scare people off, but by the time I stepped up
to the microphone, quite fifteen thousand people had gathered within the plaza
and adjoining streets, all of them in a very festive mood, bundled in parkas, scarves, ski
caps, and earmuffs, many of them hoisting handmade or campaign-provided
OBAMA signs, their collective breath hovering like patches of clouds.
My speech, carried go on cable TV, captured our campaign’s big themes—
the need for fundamental change; the necessity to tackle long-term problems like
healthcare and climate change; the requirement to maneuver past the tired Washington
partisan divide; the necessity for an engaged and active citizenry. Michelle and also the
girls joined me onstage to wave at the roaring crowd once I was finished, the
massive American flags hanging across nearby buildings making for a spectacular
backdrop.
From there, my team and that i flew to Iowa, where in eleven months the
nation’s first contest for the nomination would occur, and where we were
counting on an early victory to catapult us past more seasoned opponents. At a
series of government building meetings, we were all over again greeted by thousands of
supporters and curiosity seekers. Backstage at an incident in Cedar Rapids, I
overheard a veteran Iowa political operative confirm to one in every of the fifty some
national reporters who were following us that “this isn’t normal.”
Looking at the footage from that day, it’s hard to not get swept up within the
nostalgia that also holds sway over my former staff and supporters—the feeling
that we were kick-starting a magical ride; that over the course of two years we
would catch lightning in an exceedingly bottle and tap into something essential and true about
America. But while the crowds, the thrill, the media attention of that day,

all foreshadowed my viability within the race, i’ve got to remind myself that nothing
felt easy or predestined at the time, that again and again it felt as if our campaign
would go entirely off the rails, and that, at the outset, it seemed not just to me
but to several who were listening that I wasn’t a very good
candidate.
In some ways, my problems were a right away outgrowth of the excitement we’d
generated, and also the expectations that came with it. As Axe explained, most
presidential campaigns by necessity start small—“Off-Broadway,” he called it;
small crowds, small venues, covered by local networks and tiny papers, where
the candidate and his or her team could test lines, smooth kinks, commit a
pratfall, or go through a bout of fright without attracting much notice.
We didn’t have that luxury. From day one, it felt just like the middle of Times
Square, and under the glare of the spotlight my inexperience showed.
My staff’s biggest fear was that I’d make a “gaffe,” the expression utilized by the
press to explain any maladroit phrase by the candidate that reveals ignorance,
carelessness, fuzzy thinking, insensitivity, malice, boorishness, falsehood, or
hypocrisy—or is just deemed to veer sufficiently faraway from conventional
wisdom to create said candidate liable to attack. By this definition, most
humans will commit five to 10 gaffes on a daily basis, each people relying on the
forbearance and goodwill of our family, co-workers, and friends to fill within the
blanks, catch our drift, and customarily assume the simplest instead of the worst in us.
As a result, my initial instincts were to dismiss a number of my team’s warnings.
On our thanks to our final stop in Iowa on announcement day, as an example, Axe
glanced up from his briefing book.
“You know,” he said, “the town we’re visiting, it’s pronounced
‘Waterloo.’ ”
“Right,” I said. “Waterloo.”
Axe shook his head. “No, it’s Water-loo. Not Water-loo.”
“Do that on behalf of me again.”
“Water-loo,” Axe said, his lips pursing with great care.
“One longer.”
Axe frowned. “Okay, Barack…this is serious.”
It didn’t take long, though, to understand that the minute you announced
your candidacy for president, the traditional rules of speech now not applied; that
microphones were everywhere, and each word starting up of your mouth was

recorded, amplified, scrutinized, and dissected. At the government building in Ames, Iowa,
on that first post-announcement tour, i used to be explaining my opposition to the war

in Iraq once I got sloppy and said that the Bush administration’s poorly-thought-
out decision had resulted in additional than three thousand of our young troops’ lives

being “wasted.” The second I uttered the word, I regretted it. I’d always been
careful to tell apart between my views on the war and my appreciation for the
sacrifices of our troops and their families. Only some press outlets picked up my
blunder, and a fast acknowledgement tamped down any controversy. But it absolutely was a
reminder that words carried a unique weight than before, and as I imagined
how my carelessness might impact a family still grieving over the loss of a loved
one, my heart sank.

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