With Felipe Gonzalez I had to book, secretly, a table in a restaurant next to his table. I went with all the family: my mother, my sisters�?� After dinner I jumped over him: �??Mr. President apologize me for the interruption, my name is�?� blablabla, impossible to get to you by other means�?� blablabla�?�.
 

Well, I�??ve told the story before, although I never told Mr. Gonzalez that the meeting wasn�??t casual. The restaurant�??s owner, a friend, had told me that Gonzalez had booked a table for dinner with some former ministers and I reserved the closest table for that evening. That was the first great interview for Radiocable.com in a moment highlighted by the politic silence of the former president.

We have a few of these stories. Another one was when we appealed to a carrier pigeon so we could get a message to Zapatero, a real one, yes. That pigeon produced a funny confusion in La Moncloa that I�??ll explain some day.  That�??s why, Pilar �?? my workmate in radiocable.com �?? and I are always joking about that we�??ve specialized in searching for bugs, holes in the system.

Our last attempt was with Barack Obama, the President of the USA, and now that it all looks like we�??ve failed, we can tell it.

Obama is nowadays the ElDorado of politic interviews for an assured global impact: perfect.

We considered all kind of things to get to him:  from renting a plane and writing a message in Washington�?? sky �?? legally of course �?? to publish an advertisement in Washington Post, which costs we even negotiated with a telecommunications company. We conceived some other things, each one freakier than the one before because, how to cross the world without moving?

Finally we decided to get him a note by hand. We asked every known person and we imagined all possibilities. Ignacio, an executive at Washington Post we are in contact with, offered himself to look after a politician who will deliver it to him, and so we made it. His name was George Voinovich, former Ohio�??s senator. He was close to quit in his charge and as he was invited to a presidential dinner, he offered himself to deliver the note to President Obama.

We redacted a simple, brief note. It had to be convincing enough so the most powerful man in the planet should give it an eye. Is it possible to convince someone in just 4 paragraphs?

�??We are told that it�??s impossible and although I�??m conscious of the difficulty, I�??d like to ask that you please agree with this calling and accept my invitation.�?� �?? Said one of them.

We debated on treating him in a formal manner, or contrary as in our audacity, do it with familiarity. We also explained that being a modest blog we couldn�??t appeal to traditional ways, but that we could make his message reach to many people by using other ways and we reasoned it with the note�??s trip.

�??we can make your explanation over health system, hope, the environment, and solidarity reach to different places, by using different means, the same way this note has reached to your hands�?� From a particular home in Madrid to the hands of the President of the USA.�?�

By September 2009 the note departed from Madrid. Few days after, in the middle of the night, we�??ve got a phone call: The note has been delivered by Voinovich �?? said Ignacio.

Sometimes this work looks like fishing; you throw the hook and then wait quietly sitting at the pier. It seems it�??s been long enough to catch the apparels back and going home with an empty basket. Perhaps the note never got to him, or maybe it did, but it wasn�??t convincing enough. Anyway today it�??s amusing to imagine that maybe one day, radiocable.com was in the hands of the most powerful man on earth.

Traducido por: Daniel García.
daniel.gm@gmx.es
@daniel.igm