The Outcome Feels the Same
"At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce."
Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic Monthly in "Goodbye to All That". Labels: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama
posted by Justin @ 12/10/2007 10:08:00 AM
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That's a really interesting article. The Boomer angle is pretty interesting. I don't like much about those people. Smells like false idealism to me.
I also feel like our generation is just as dumb, if not dumber, because we are so individualistic that we can't even get behind either a hippie line or a conservative line.
I'm also interested in what Sullivan would say about Obama agreeing to use Oprah (is that for white suburban women) and not Brad Pitt (what about Pitt sans Angelina)?
I feel like Obama is a product now, and a product of handlers. He's a Boomer puppet to me. Not entirely, but to be a legitimate candidate doesn't he have to be?
He's the Woodstock sequels to me. Forced, corporate idealism.
Very interesting article. Sullivan's point that my generation is divided and at war with each other is an intersting contrast to David Brooks' view that "Bobo's" are flourshing becasue they have learned how to blend the best of both worlds. Mom
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