Soledad O'Brien Quotes
Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.
O'Brien, Soledad. "I am Soledad O'Brien, journalist and host of Al Jazeera America's 'Starfish' - AMA!" Reddit, 14 Aug. 2014.
He had been offered a Cabinet position in Washington. He had been a respected judge in Ohio and was only tangentially involved with politics. What he did see of it he did not like. However, others pressed upon him his duty to help the country and he took the position. But he was never comfortable or even very skilled and the political end of Cabinet service but he was extremely skilled at the administrative and policy making aspect. Theodore Roosevelt personally selected him to be his successor and Roosevelt get him elected. Even when he was President, he rarely enjoyed it and was not very good at the political end of things which caused Roosevelt to be disappointed and then campaign against Taft’s second term.
In addition to this put down of Southern politicians, this quotation shows us that politically short sighted leaders in modern America is not a unique phenomenon. Adams makes this general complaint about politicians in 1861, North and South. The lesser assessment of Southern politicians continued into modern times and will likely exist until the South reaches educational, industrial, cultural and scientific parity with the rest of the nation.
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer. Since 2016, O'Brien has been the host for Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, a nationally syndicated weekly talk show produced by Hearst Television. She is chairwoman of Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production company and distributor that she founded in 2013. She is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
