Barack Obama writes in The Audacity of Hope, “It’s hard to imagine the CEO of a company giving himself a multimillion-dollar bonus while cutting health care coverage for his workers if he thought they were in some sense his equals. And it’s safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm’s way.”
He made these statements after he interjected, that “as a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit.”
These words, written in 2006, underscore some actions he later took as president: his deliberation on the troop increase in Afghanistan, and his solemn visit to the plane bringing back war dead. These plainly show that he is possessed of this empathy—the mockery of these actions by some conservative right wing show hosts notwithstanding.
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