OBAMARAMA

“The world is what it is.” Sen. Obama is discussing his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who coined the phrase “audacity of hope.” “The history of this country has been built, to some degree, on that audacity.”

The audacity of the American Revolution — the Declaration of Independence — the Constitutional Convention. The audacity of outlawing slavery. The audacity of women’s suffrage.

At each and every stage, “somebody’s been audacious enough to say, ‘we can do something different.’ And most of the time, it was young people who’ve done it.”

“The same thing is true today,” he says. “We have a war today, which we should have never waged. They don’t know how to m?nage it, but it’s young people who have to go. … It’s not going to change unless young people change it.”

Finally, Sen. Obama poses a question: “What is it that you can do to make this world better?” It’s similar to the question he told Charlie Rose he asks himself on a regular basis, and without a doubt it’s the reason he’s in the race.