My friend, Tyler Nixon, scolds us for wearing our hearts on our sleeves when it comes to Obama like A. Price here…
At the risk of letting out too much about myself, I will say I haven’t been around as long and the majority of the population. that said, I make it a point to learn as much as i can about past elections and eras and US history in general. As a liberal AND a cynic, I can say Obama is the best thing that can happen to this country.
Certainly, it is a temptation for Obama supporters to imbue this election with higher significance and import. I have succumbed entirely to that temptation.
For me it is because the Obama campaign embraces life in a way that no campaign has in my political lifetime. Obama promotes the joy, happiness, optimism and glee of life but does so without denying the the struggle, pain and hardship of a fully lived life.
By turning his back on the one dimensional patriotic pageant that pretends to be life he has broken broken through (for me and A. Price anyway) a carapace of cynicism.