Monday, May 19, 2008
Why I'm for Barrack Obama
I love seeing people refreshed and enthused by a political candidate who, while still of necessity part of the usual political machine, represents at least a different sort of candidate that is being uplifted by the back room boys and girls. This generation has not seen a candidate who through youth, culture and racial background seems to reflect them so clearly and speaks to them inclusively. It reminds me of the excitement which I witnessed first hand with President John F. Kennedy. Every generation and group needs a candidate like this. He has the audacity of this generation, where people think you can "learn on the job." (That is quite different from the thought process during the Kennedy election, where youth, but not experience, was really the question). So Barrack Obama is a reflection of the current "generation" and part of their parent's generation like no other candidate has been for a while.