Prince Harry chats Meghan Markle with Obama, stays mum on royal wedding invite
December 28, 2017 by admin
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Former President Barack Obama told Prince Harry in an interview broadcast Wednesday that those in leadership roles must recognize that the people they are supposed to be serving “are not abstractions.” (Dec. 26)
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Prince Harry snagged former President Obama for an interview as part of his stint as a guest editor for the BBC Radio 4 news program which aired Wednesday, discussing topics spanning current events and Harry’s upcoming wedding to Meghan Markle.
In a lighting round of the interview, which took place during the Invictus Games in Toronto in September, Harry asked Obama whether he prefers Suits, the USA drama that famously starred his fiancée, over The Good Wife.
“Suits, obviously,” Obama said.
“Great answer,” Harry replied.
The newly-engaged prince briefly spoke about his Christmas spent with Markle and the royal family, who “loved having her there” in for the day in Sandringham.
In an additional BBC interview, Harry called Markle’s holiday visit “fantastic.”
“She really enjoyed it,” he said. “The family loved having her there.”
As for the royal wedding on May 19, 2018, Harry wouldn’t confirm whether Obama would be on the guest list, saying, “I don’t know about that, we haven’t even put the invite or the guest list together, who knows if he’s going to be invited or not. I wouldn’t want to ruin that surprise.”
Elsewhere in their conversation, Obama didn’t mention President Donald Trump’s name while speaking about how social media can drive people apart, which he said complicates “how the country moves forward.”
“All of us in leadership have to find ways to recreate a common space on the internet,” he said. “One of the dangers of the internet is people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases.”
Obama stressed the importance of a “common space” on the internet that provides news that all Americans from different political leanings can trust.
“It used to be, in the United States for example, we had three television stations and everybody watched Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley or whoever the chief anchor was,” he said, recalling the golden age of TV news. “Everybody had a common set of facts, and so there might be conservatives and liberals, but people could generally agree on a baseline of reality.”
The former president also looked back on his legacy, calling health care reform one of his biggest accomplishments and addressing criticism that he was too “dispassionate and professorial and analytical” while on the job.
“I don’t think I can do my job well, or that any leader can do their job well if they don’t have the capacity to feel deeply for the people they’re serving,” he said, again potentially alluding to President Trump’s current stint in office. “The great danger that often befalls leaders is that the people they’re supposed to be serving become abstractions. If you don’t understand that what you do every day has a profound impact on somebody else, then you shouldn’t be there.”
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