A Look Back...From 40,000 Feet Up
Sometimes you gotta step back and look at things from 40 thousand feet up.
When I do that, when I think about how the story of the 2008 campaign will look to future generations, win or lose, people will marvel (in a year when a sizable number of people believed we were at war with islamofascists) that a black candidate named Barack Hussein Obama fought Hillary Clinton, wife of the first black president, to a standstill. You can get some sense of the dismay and confusion of the wingnuts when you look at it like that.
How'd he get this far, anyway?
The wingnuts chalk it up to "obamatrons" and "prophets" and "cults," etc. But you know and I know that doesn't even begin to explain it. But even if it was mass hysteria/hypnosis, why would so many people react that way to a guy like Obama? I mean it's not like he's another Elvis or something.
It really begs the question of just how bad all the other candidates must seem...or something?
It really begs the question of just how bad all the other candidates must seem...or something?
Sort of. How about, he's the only candidate who people can imagine really means what he's saying - from right here at ground level.