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Barack Obama’s Sense of Humor
January 25th, 2008This had me laughing out loud. A great sense of humor bas Barack Obama. From Why Republicans Fear Obama by Byron York at the National Review Online.
“You notice that people who’ve been in Washington too long, they don’t talk like ordinary folks,” Obama began. “We had this debate in Las Vegas, and somebody asked me, ‘What are your weaknesses?” So I said, ‘Well, you know, I don’t keep track of paper that well, I’m always losing paper, my desk is a mess.’ And then they asked the next two candidates. And one candidate says, ‘Well, my biggest weakness is I’m just so passionate about helping poor people.’ And then the other one says, ‘I’m just so impatient to help the American people solve their problems.’ So then I realize well, I wish I’d gone last and then I would have known.”
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Comments 
Awesome. I really hate those “What is your best character?” questions. What the heck is any answer supposed to mean? That the person thinks they are able to condense their humanity into a sentence?
One of these days, when I’m in a job interview and they ask me what my greatest weakness is, I’m going to answer:
One word, interns.
no se puede! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7WwY4a9ro
(from RC alumn Andrew Boyd)
Thank you for that. Like the Scarlet part of the spoof.
While I have your attention, more Think New Orleans stuff. A hack day…
BarCampNOLA Hack Day
Also, I’m stuck between two wikis. Instiki and Mediawiki. Something I mean to write about.
Interns, huh? I love interns. Just saw one of mine from when I worked at MN Center for Photography circa 2004, and she’s running a gallery now (at a Baptist college, so no drinking, dancing or card playing, please!). I ran a huge open studio program with over 300 artists in DC, MD and VA as an innocent intern of twenty-two, back in the day.
But you’re so right–politicians speak like job interviewers! My favorite story about this: my friend Galen was doing a phone interview for the engineering job he now has in Heidelberg, Germany, and thinking that he had NO chance to get it, answered something like “no comment” or “I pass” when asked about his greatest weakness. And got a call back with a job offer a few days later.
Screw behavioral interviewing AND Washington-speak. How about some no-nonsense English for a change?