Dear Bay Area local color pundit guy (h/t),
A substantial portion of the U.S. population - including, I imagine, a surprisingly significant number in your readership - is going to be coming to grips with the possibility of casting a presidential ballot for a black man. Many will struggle with the decision solely on the basis of race, and some may manage to break through their previously comfortable ways of thinking. It's a significant challenge for Senator Obama to overcome. That's why no one needs to know about this:
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
Did we learn nothing from Dennis Kucinich? We love Kucinich! We love it when he offers us red meat. We love his stands on the issues. We love his wife. But he's a vegan who hangs with Shirley MacLaine, so watch out.
With that in mind - do we really want to present Obama as some sort of New Age crystal healer?
With respect to lil Wobs, anybody over 7 who thinks Barack Obama is a charismatic Gandhi/King figure really needs to have a fucking Pepsi and calm the fuck down.
ReplyDeleteBest liberal candidate of our lifetime? Sure. But leader of social movement?
Just in case anybody's forgotten - the DNC is not a social movement.
goff, check this
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Wow - that was awkwardly inserted. (As Michael Scott would say, "That's what she said")
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