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In 2015, Obama found his voice in a series of stirring speeches in Selma, Ala., and Charleston, where he acknowledged America’s long and continuous history of racial injustice. In the aftermath of racial unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, and a racially motivated massacre in Charleston, S.C., Obama went further. Four years later he entered the breach once more by proclaiming that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon.” Obama’s first-term caution on race matters was punctured by his controversial remarks that police “acted stupidly” in the mistaken identity arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University’s prominent African American studies professor, in 2009. For the Obamas, online comedy came to represent the latest evolution of the presidential bully pulpit.Ī supporter hugs President Obama as he works the rope line following a rally in Denver in October 2012. The video had also garnered more than 50 million views and served as a template for later White House efforts, including Obama’s lecture on climate change during the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner and first lady Michelle Obama’s Carpool Karaoke performance touting education for girls.

#PRESIDENT OBAMA DENVER TRAFFIC REGISTRATION#

Although it makes only a cursory reference to the president’s real motive for shooting the video - boosting enrollment on the federal health-care exchange after a botched rollout in October 2013 impeded registration efforts nationwide - it translated into a surge in traffic and helped shift the broader narrative about.

Obama’s interview with Zach Galifianakis on “Between Two Ferns” is the embodiment of this strategy. But it wasn’t until Obama’s second term that he and his aides managed to fully harness the power of the digital media age - including interviews with Hollywood and YouTube stars, as well as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram - to advance the White House’s message in an increasingly fractured media landscape.

His speeches drew enormous crowds, and his image from Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” poster became ubiquitous. The 2008 campaign made him an international icon. President Obama has never been shy about leveraging his celebrity to advance his political goals. The story behind the moment Zach Galifianakis asked, “What’s it like to be the last black president?' (Whitney Leaming,Whitney Shefte/The Washington Post)

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