Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress
by zghst on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:41PM
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I believe the commenter refers to “overnight” as representative of his transformation into a wide national figure, amplified by the explosion of technology during his tenure.
Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress
by slamdance on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:45AM
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so - he was a state senator for less than 4 years (Less than one full term) before being elected president. I would say that's "overnight" as far as politics go - considering the others who make it their entire careers and never reach the pinnacle.
Re:Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress
by dragonwriter on Friday September 22, 2017 @06:02PM
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He was a state senator for a full term, and a US Senator for a partial term (and very active as a political, if not elected, figure before that, which is what being a “community organizer” is.)
> considering the others who make it their entire careers and never reach the pinnacle.
Sure, by that standard anyone who succeeds does so meteorically, since only a handful do per generation, while many spend whole careers in politics. But that just means the standard is nonsense.
Barack Obama had been in electoral politics, as first a state and then US senator, for just over a decade before being elected President, and had been widely hailed as an up and coming star in the party and likely future Presidential candidate after his national convention speech when running for the US Senate.
He was not at all an “overnight political success”.