These Old Bush & Obama Clips Hit Different

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words. Madam Speaker, and I believe that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic >> and the scope of our dreams.

[00:00:31]That's what drew our forebears here.

[00:00:34]That's how the daughter of a factory worker is CEO of America's largest automaker.

[00:00:46]>> How the son of a barkeeper speaker of the house.

[00:00:51]>> Wow. I mean, what gets me about that moment? First, you have President Bush honoring the first woman speaker of the house, Democrat Nancy Pelosi. And then cut to several years later, President Obama introducing who turns out eventually to be his good buddy and occasional smoking friend John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House. And man, just different parties, different ideologies, and that all just seems so foreign right now, doesn't it? I mean, think about what's in the Zeke and in culture. What's the one of the most popular shows right now? Heated Rivalry.

[00:01:23]Anyone? Like if you can look across the aisle or the ice and see someone for who they are, it's like we can hold two things at once, right? You can disagree with someone in all kinds of ways and yet see them as human. And that is where the invitation sits for us today is to begin to build bridges instead of tear them apart.