It wasn't that he was geeky, but more the setting in which he was giving this little off-the-cuffery (if it was; there were moments that felt a little too campaign-ready. He knew this video would make it to YouTube eventually. There were too many cameras present, and someone took extra care to make sure all the different cuts and the vocals were in sync.
But try to imagine every successful geek office you've ever worked in, and try to imagine any other candidate talking to his staffers like that. Maybe, maybe Huckabee, but anyone else, no? Obama comes across as a modern CEO in that video, someone who speaks the language of a reasonably flat institution with a high degree of interpersonal responsibility.
Whether that scales to something the size of the United States Administration, I have no idea.
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Date: 2008-06-09 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-09 05:51 pm (UTC)But try to imagine every successful geek office you've ever worked in, and try to imagine any other candidate talking to his staffers like that. Maybe, maybe Huckabee, but anyone else, no? Obama comes across as a modern CEO in that video, someone who speaks the language of a reasonably flat institution with a high degree of interpersonal responsibility.
Whether that scales to something the size of the United States Administration, I have no idea.
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Date: 2008-06-10 03:32 am (UTC)