Heh. Maybe I'm more cynical than bitter.
It's visceral. That's something that's hard for a lot of Democrats to get into, especially those that consider themselves "hardliners."
We've been the party of unfeeling wonks for too long. It's good to see some truly fired up progressives on a scale like this.
I'm not a hardline Democrat, though. I'm a registered Independent (just for the sake of obstinance), who thinks both Clinton and Obama are centrists, and is looking forward to the day when we can nominate a real progressive. Maybe my problem is my unfeeling, wonky concern about his healthcare plan. Oh well.
After so many elections I've found that when I get too caught up in one candidate's campaign promise I end up feeling let down. I think they often find they can't do what they wanted to do anyway. So I think it's more important to elect someone who seems like the right kind of person so whatever they do you can feel they are trying to do the right thing. I don't expect to be happy with everything Obama does as president. But I do think he is the right kind of person for right now.
also like the fact that he does get powered a lot by people (though I am sure he is getting big donors now too).
That gives me hope that we can actually take out to the "woodshed" if tries to do us wrong.
I do not really expect to agree with everything on him either.
I was pretty much whee you are until Iowa, then during Winter Break I read his books (only time I'm not a fulltime student and 30 hours in the school cafeteria a week), and while the second one is the typical politican, if a littel bit more eloquent and thoughtful, the first is unique among books by political figures, it's not a campaign autobio, it's something genuine and intelligent. And then when just a day after i finished "Dreams of My Fathers" (and a week or so after I started reading Samantha Powers account of genocide) he gave the South Carolina Speech, and I started to think that this was something different. This was a guy who cut through a lot of my cynicism, and whose positions and achievements are laudable, I think overtime I've just come to believe that while Hillary could be a good president, perhaps even better than Bill was (good steward but no real lasting achievement), Obama could be a transcendent one.
I admit, I haven't finished the first one yet, (graduate student, no time to read for pleasure), but what I have read has been enlightening. m It's very readable, too, he's a good writer.
