Summary of Gabriel Debenedetti's The Long Alliance / IRB Media (ePub)

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#1 Thanks to his book and his first season of the podcast, Obama was now well on his way to reestablishing himself as a public figure after eight years of almost complete absence. He'd been invited to give a series of speeches and roundtables, both in the States and abroad. His Twitter feed was at something approaching 100,000 tweets, many of them links to his own work, and he was beginning to develop a bit of a podcast following as well. He wasn't going to be the next Oprah or anything like that, but he was well on his way to becoming a local celebrity-one who'd spent most of the past decade in the political wilderness-and he liked it. Although, truth be told, he'd also always liked it. Well before he'd even been elected president in 2008, Obama had already started his own podcast, which aired for the first time in June 2005. Only a month later he announced that he was launching another show with the Internet players who'd built MySpace (which had recently been acquired by News Corp. ) and that would feature regular conversations about the issues of our day.

#2 After eight years of almost complete absence, Obama was starting to resurface as a public figure. He was invited to give a series of speeches and roundtables, and he began to develop a podcast following. He wasn't going to be the next Oprah or anything like that, but he was well on his way to becoming a local celebrity.

#3 Obama was now a local celebrity, and he was developing a podcast following. He wasn't going to be the next Oprah, but he was well on his way to becoming a public figure.

#4 Obama was becoming a local celebrity, and he enjoyed it. Biden was ambushed by his family on Saturday, November 7, when they found out that Trump had won the election.