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No matter what, though, I can't stop wanting it for Martin.
[I went into town. The coffee shops are full of people yakking about our first black president. I don't even know if a black person lives here. Haven't seen one in three years. Heard the video clerk married one, but I have never seen one. Dund madder. We're abuzz about this wonderful thing. Spindly old coot, smacking the counter top, rattling our spoons and toppling his toast, saying, "I'm going to live to see a black president!" The mien of pride and cynicism and glee all warped around his toothless mouth, a complexity of expression only available to seniors.
I listened again. I'm deciding Obama meant that * has fucked over Georgia with his moves in South Ossetia and pissed off our friends in the European Union. I'm deciding he meant that, without explicitly saying that, because everyone knows that's what has happened.... That was the one line that woke me up in the speech, the one I had to go to the transcript to absorb, and listen again to make sure. I think he was saying without saying that * is the culprit and McCain's attachment to it is a bad thing. If that isn't what he was saying, don't wake me up yet. Okay?
I want to be happy about how many people are happy, and the dream, and the other dream of making those criminals go away, for a few hours....]
28 August 2008
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