Newsweek always does a post-election behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. HuffPost has some of the content in advance. Among other things, we learn that threats to Obama ticked up sharply around the time Palin started giving really incendiary speeches, and that a foreign entity aggressively hacked both campaigns.
But the best nugget in there - in my opinion - reveals just how reasonable and awesome Barack Obama really is:
The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for the Democratic primary debates, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me ... answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."
-Education Dude
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