Being President of the United States has its challenges, but also its bright spots. Former U.S. President Barack Obama is on the new cover of Vanity Fair, and in the issue he gets candid about his life, his time in office and his new memoir A Promised Land in a wide-ranging conversation with Salvage the Bones author Jesmyn Ward. “I think that all of us use humour, to some degree or another, to help explain the world around us,” Obama says. “The human condition can be absurd, and if you learn to laugh about it, then that helps you get through pain and hardship and difficulty.” RELATED: Barack Obama Surprises Speechless Fan On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ With the benefit of hindsight, Obama also talks about the importance of empathy, and why he
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