💬 Opinion 5d ago · Jonathan Cohn

What Abdul El-Sayed Says He Learned From Barack Obama

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What Abdul El-Sayed Says He Learned From Barack Obama
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(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)Along I-75 in Southeastern MichiganABDUL EL-SAYED REMEMBERS EXACTLY where he was the first time he saw Barack Obama. It was July 2004 and El-Sayed was 19, standing at the kitchen sink of his parents’ house outside Detroit while the Democratic National Convention in Boston was playing on the television.Obama, then a Senate candidate, was giving the primetime keynote address—an ode to hope, unity, and America

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