A Certain Young Senator Would've Made a Fine President. Too Bad He Never Really Existed.

IJReview pulled this video out of the 2008 memory hole. It’s astonishing.

In it, young Sen. Barack Obama tells America that as president, he will “give himself” to the job.

His leisure time will go away. His interests will go away. His vacations will go away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsB1iX5T504

His leisure time would go away.

His interests would go away.

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— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 4, 2014

His vacations would go away.

That’s what he said.

Question: Was he lying then, or merely hopelessly clueless and naive?