Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

hayden
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:57:42 +0000

I know this was just pure entertainment, but I’ve been thinking further about it and I think I see something important in this interview. When Seinfield asks the president what sport he thinks the presidency is, Obama thinks about it for a while, but ends up saying football.

Some of us would explain the connection by saying that after struggling to move forward, you salvage the situation with a punt, or maybe we’d talk about the importance of teamwork. Or the exhilaration of successful strategy putting your guy in the end zone for 6.

Obama, I think, expressed a thought process that must drive all successful politicians. Sure, he said, you have to punt a lot, but you have the ball, you look at the field in front of you, and then suddenly you see an opening, then open field. So telling. So optimistic. It must be the basis for any politician willing to serve at those levels, that you get the bad times, but then you get an opening and you go.