what are barack obama's flaws?

That's pretty obvious to me

I will search out a metric for obviousness and report back.

"My favourite things" is a very canon choice (?)

this might be a dumb question, but what does "songs from my administration" mean in this context?

You call it "a promised land playlist" and yet the Springsteen song on it is.. "The Rising."

Curious.

map room jams

A bad Stevie Wonder song balanced by a great one. Still triangulating even out of office.

brooks and dunn are ass

^^^ wrong

In the sense that ass is good, wrong.

Boot Scootin' Boogie would've been the better brooks and dunn pick.

like to think of o head bopping to lose yourself as he orders a drone strike on a village

so is anyone gonna post whatever this is here

"My favourite things" is a very canon choice (?)

Yes, but that could mean a whole bunch of things. It's not Abbey Road. It's not Dark Side of the Moon or Led Zeppelin IV or Thriller. (I was going to add "It's not even Kind of Blue," but then I see that's next.) And it's a president. Geez!

what does "songs from my administration" mean in this context?

Found that puzzling too. Maybe he means drawn from his annual playlists?

so is anyone gonna post whatever this is here

the list of songs is in an image that he has paid a graphic designer to lay out, embedded in the tweet

I would like to offer my apologies to ass, that was unfair of me

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/52/21/74/5221745d5bdea89f51db1c1eae962249.gif

Putting your playlists in alphabetical order is either laziness or next-level-Oulipo curation.

even music fanatics do that though. never understood it

Keeps the Beyonce stans from rioting at the merest hint that you ranked her behind Brooks & Dunn.

the great crime here is that it's in alphabetical order with The Beatles under T!!!!

and even then out of order!

so it's in not-alphabetical order and alphabetical order... at the same time? How awesome is that?!!

Just to be clear, we're talking about the musical tastes of an ex-President of the United States, as revealed in a publicity press release on the eve of a book release for which he was probably given a seven-figure advance, as if it weren't carefully crafted to ensure its appeal to the greatest number of people, while offended the fewest potential customers, while not tarnishing his "legacy" in any way. That list probably got passed by a dozen marketing people and close advisors. And who cares what he listens to?

^ that's a fucked up sentence, grammatically, but it says enough to be understood.

even music fanatics do that though.

who

Barack, ya basic

it'd be cool if obama had early '00s ilm taste in music and his list was like MBV and manic street preachers and a few britney singles

A bad Stevie Wonder song balanced by a great one.

they're both great

ALways thought Freddie Freeloader was the only track that could be dropped from Kind of Blue. Good to see it's someone's favourite, I guess.

Logged onto Apple Music this morning to stream Agharta while I worked and it's clearly the day's most-played Miles track

Mr.Obama, sir, please play one of the creepier outtakes from Aphex Twin's masterpiece SAWII while ordering a drone strike.

"In honor of my book hitting shelves tomorrow.."

that's what i like about him so much, he's always so generous towards himself.

"in honour of my book hitting shelves, in states where people would both buy a book by a Muslim Kenyan communist and where bookshops are still open..."

Ive always felt like he probably has pretty OK taste in music for a global supercelebrity who likely never gets any alone time whatsoever to listen to or think about music, and that simultaneously he doesnt know anything about these playlists until after they're published

He's plugging a book, yes. I liked this a lot, but I'll leave it to the usual suspects to explain how phony it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jWjk5zA12U

Fine enough review.

https://newrepublic.com/article/160285/obama-promised-land-trump-biden

Osita Nwanevu on the new book and, by extension, Biden

Obama appears now to be a better judge of Mitch McConnell. “I’m enjoying reading now about how Joe Biden and Mitch have been friends for a long time,” he told Goldberg. “They’ve known each other for a long time. I have quotes from Biden about his interactions with Mitch McConnell. The issue with Republicans is not that I didn’t court them enough. We would invite them to everything: Movie nights, state dinners, Camp David, you name it. The issue was not a lack of schmoozing. The issue was that they found it politically advantageous to demonize me and the Democratic Party. This was amplified by media outlets like Fox News. Their voters believed this, and over time Republicans became so successful in their demonization that it became very difficult for them to compromise, or even be seen being friendly.”

What Obama doesn’t acknowledge outright here is that denials of this reality—the insistence, for instance, that Joe Biden’s personal relationship with McConnell means something—are coming from Biden himself. In a speech Monday, Biden dismissed doubts about a return to bipartisanship under his administration. “The refusal of Democrats and Republicans to cooperate with one another is not due to some mysterious force beyond our control,” he said. “It’s a conscious decision. It’s a choice that we make. If we can decide not to cooperate, then we can decide to cooperate. I believe this is part of the mandate from the American people—part of the mandate they gave us. They want us to cooperate. They want us to deliver results. And the choice that Kamala and I will make is that we’re going to do that.”

Biden’s always lacked Obama’s eloquence, but he’s ably performing here something Obama always excelled ⁠at—an attempt to mystify the forces at work in American politics, framed as a demystification. The hard, stubborn reality we all ought to man up and recognize, Biden tells us, is that teamwork makes the dream work. But Obama is publicly expressing doubts about this political mode that Biden has yet to betray—all while denouncing political dishonesty and fakery in the Trump era.

https://newrepublic.com/article/160285/obama-promised-land-trump-biden