If you had to sum up Barack Obama's 2008 campaign in one word, you might have picked the word "audacity."
It was audacious to believe a first-term senator from Illinois could become president. It was audacious to think a politician no one knew before the 2004 Democratic convention could overcome the Clinton machine. It was audacious to think a young black man with the middle-name "Hussein" could be elected president. It was audacious to think that a Democrat who'd always opposed the Iraq War and had no foreign-policy experience could beat a popular war hero while we were still mired in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Obama knew it. "Audacity" is the word he picked to describe his campaign. He even titled his book "The Audacity of Hope."
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