New Yorker Obama Endorsement
I spotted this on somebody’s blog this morning (sorry, don’t remember where I first saw it). It’s a long article, and I typically have a hard time reading things online if they’re lengthy… So I emailed it to myself at work in hopes I’d get a chance to read it there at some point.
I kept it open in a tab all day, but never got a chance to read it – despite seeing several more positive references to it through the course of the day.
So before I left work I printed it out (nearly 8 pages!) and brought it home with me. I finished reading it a few minutes ago, and let me just say that this single essay/editorial brings it all together better than I could EVER do it.
Please, take the time to read it. The Choice – by the Editors at The New Yorker
Here’s my favorite part:
The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.
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