[click picture]It doesn't seem to me to be enough, but I do agree that a black president would do more to wipe out the hatred of us around the world than most of what would be done by anyone in that office. I say "would" because none of them will risk actually doing what could and should be done. Make no mistake about that.
It's beginning to seem to me that Obama really is the people's choice, but I'm wondering if the party will go along with that. It needn't, and it has shown absolutely NO morals about this sort of thing. So even if you will just go gently into this good cognitive dissonance and hope this portrait of ineffectiveness wrapped in a dream will end up being a tenth as good as JFK, try not to set yourself up for the fall when the fascist wing of the Democratic Party yanks it away from him.
And, don't forget that he deserves it for being such a wishy-washy Senator, anyway.
UPDATE: How could I have forgotten this doozy?
Obama's deference to these boundaries was hammered home to me when our discussion touched on the late Senator Paul Wellstone. Obama said the progressive champion was "magnificent." He also gently but dismissively labeled Wellstone as merely a "gadfly," in a tone laced with contempt for the senator who, for instance, almost single-handedly prevented passage of the bankruptcy bill for years over the objections of both parties. This clarified Obama's support for the Hamilton Project, an organization formed by Citigroup chair Robert Rubin and other Wall Street Democrats to fight back against growing populist outrage within the party. And I understood why Beltway publications and think tanks have heaped praise on Obama and want him to run for President. It's because he has shown a rare ability to mix charisma and deference to the establishment.
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