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On Being with Krista Tippett

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Barack Obama and the Politics of the Presidential Election

Vladimir Havel wrote an open letter that helped start the movement that brought communism down in Czechoslovakia. He said it was either express my inner truth in an outer way or take myself out there was no longer a choice. Obama starts out this process as a virtual unknown he's castigated for being a good speech maker but an irrelevant idealist and two years later he captures more than 50 percent of the vote.

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