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Most lib worshipers are interchangeable in their hosannas; but Ezra Klein of the American Prospect takes it a bit higher on the mountain:
"Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence."
Phew. Will someone please open a fucking window on the way out?
If Pastor Klein's sermon is any indication of how libloggers are going to speak as the campaign drags on, then oxygen masks will be required for the duration.
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And it's all true.
Today at work, the Obama supporters in my midst (and suddenly they're everywhere, like bacteria) are all but back flipping up and down the hallways in post everything glee. One excited Obama-ite walked up to me and shouted: "The future has arrived!"
This is a sentence no one should ever use - even if "the future" has, in fact arrived. Although, on second thought, she may be onto something. Obama's post-everything, togetherness-via-neoliberalism message of ambiguously described tommorowhood may indeed be the next phase of American power politics.
.d.