American Madness: The Obama Years
History is US
Audacy Podcasts | Shining City Audio
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you like radically honest stories, you'll love the podcast risk. |
| 0:16.2 | Risks where people tell true stories, they never thought they'd dare to share, like the |
| 0:21.3 | one about the guy who cooked and served his own leg to his friends as tacos. |
| 0:26.5 | The woman who found out the person she was sharing kinky fantasies with online was her dad. |
| 0:31.7 | If you think you've heard it all, just wait till you hear risk. |
| 0:36.1 | Available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:48.8 | In November of 2008, four decades after the passage of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964, |
| 0:57.2 | voters in the United States elected the first black president in the nation's history. |
| 1:02.9 | It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, |
| 1:09.6 | in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America. |
| 1:17.2 | This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African Americans, |
| 1:25.6 | and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight. |
| 1:29.9 | Barack Obama's journey to the Oval Office was truly remarkable. |
| 1:35.2 | The then 47-year-old got his start as a community organizer in Illinois and was a first-term |
| 1:42.2 | senator when he made the bid for America's highest office. His campaign slogan, yes, we can, |
| 1:49.6 | captured the demand for change in a nation fractured by the 9-11 terror attack and the unending war |
| 1:58.2 | it unbushed. Yes, we can became a rallying cry for citizens eager to cast off the despair of the |
| 2:08.9 | previous eight years. |
| 2:18.6 | President-elect Obama would replace President George W. Bush, |
| 2:23.6 | whose legacy included the historically unpopular war in Iraq and massive changes in national |
| 2:29.9 | security, tax policy, and social security. By the end of Bush's second term in office, |
| 2:36.4 | the country was bitterly divided, and in the throes of a financial recession, |
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