former President Barack Obama revealed that his wife Michelle had asked him to spend more time with Bruce Springsteen reflecting on his ‘failures and flaws’.
Obama said during a CBS Interview On Monday, when he was getting to know singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, his wife told him, ‘You need to spend more time with Bruce.’
‘I said, ‘Well, why is that?’ Obama said.
’ She says, “You know, he understands all his failures and flaws as a man, and you don’t even understand how messed up you are.”
Obama said he replied: ‘You’re right. No doubt.’
Michelle and Barack Obama met in 1989 while working at a law firm in Chicago and married three years later.
Michelle reveals her marriage to the 44th President in the September 2020 episode Michelle Obama Podcast.
‘At times I wanted to push Barack out the window. And I say that because it’s like that, you’ve got to know the feelings will be intense,’ she said. ‘But that doesn’t mean you quit. And this period can go on for a long time. They can last for years.’
Barack Obama reveals why his wife told him to spend more time with Bruce Springsteen: ‘She says, “You know, he understands all his failures and flaws as a man, and you have to Don’t even understand how messed up you really are.
Michelle opened up about her marriage to the 44th president on the September 2020 episode of The Michelle Obama Podcast. ‘At times I wanted to push Barack out the window. And I say that because it’s like, you’ve got to know the feelings will be intense,’ she said
Springsteen and Obama have now teamed up to produce a podcast and the upcoming book, Renegades: Born in the USA.
Rocker and the former president reflected on how they both see themselves as outsiders. Springsteen warned that many people would feel disaffected by technological and societal changes, and Obama said change was happening “too fast” for many in America.
‘And Donald Trump was, you know, he had the cynical and lascivious ability to play on that part of our weakness, you know? I think we’re going to have a lot of trouble if you can’t find a way to include a lot of people who feel disaffected. Whether it is from technological change, whether it is post-industrialisation,’ Springsteen said.
‘Bruce is right,’ Obama said. ‘You end up with, on the one hand, changes happening very, very rapidly for a large part of the population. For the other part of the population, it’s like, ‘You know, how long are we going to put off this dream?'”
Springsteen and Obama have now teamed up to produce a podcast and the upcoming book, Renegades: Born in the USA.
‘And I think part of what we tried to do in the podcast was to make everyone feel a little more inclined to recognize, you know, our own faults.’
Springsteen pioneered the idea of ’critical patriotism’, which he said was the subject of his 1984 hit ‘Born in the USA’, about a Vietnam veteran who lives in hopeless circumstances and little opportunity. returns home.
“I had ‘Born in the USA’, which – a song I wrote. And it was misinterpreted on various levels because it basically put forward the idea that you can love and feel a part of the same country Criticize deeply what you can, and realize that you have let you down on different levels.”
Springsteen and Obama’s dialogue book ‘Renegades: Born in the USA’ will be released on Tuesday.
The musician told CBS that he hopes to be back on the road in the coming year and wants to continue making new music.
‘I’m going to set a better record and play better tour, play better shows. So that’s always there for me,’ he said.
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