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Barack Obama: “I was the first digital president.”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama Discusses Democracy, Social Cohesion, and Leadership at the Connecticut Forum

Published | Video Starts at 30:46

And that encourages you to consider a bunch of factors and to think about complexity and to reason things out. It creates certain habits of the mind. Tweets, do something different. And look, look, I was the first digital president. So I saw the dawn of this and saw it unfold in the book Audacity of Hope that I wrote right after I'd been elected to the Senate. (30:46–30:49)

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Asserts that he was the first U.S. president to significantly use digital technology in his campaign.

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