Great analysis of Obama's candidacy in Salon: "Obama's Double Magic"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

by Gary Kamiya

"Barack Obama's stunning victory in Iowa was a moment of national alchemy. It represented an outpouring of righteous Democratic anger, and its simultaneous transformation into hope. That double process -- the cathartic expression of rage, and its purification -- is exactly what Democrats have needed after seven nightmarish years of Bush. It is politics both as payback, and as spiritual transcendence. And the fact that it is a black man who is serving as America's philosopher's stone, turning the base metal of bitterness into the gold of forgiveness, is extraordinarily moving. The possibility that our nation's deepest wound, and the source of our political divisions, could also be the agent of our redemption is like a banner appearing in a darkened sky...."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/01/08/obama/

[kurth]

1. Nah. Triks Are for Kids

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Sour grapes, much?

[calmblueocean]

3. Still reading it, but...

I would really have preferred they not use the word "magic" to describe Obama, after the whole "magic Negro" debacle of not too long ago...

[Breeze54]

4. The Iowa Register polls were totatly skewed ... Way off!

They did an injustice to the other candidates.

[K Gardner]

5. This is really one of the best articles I have ever read. Printable and

framable even. May be helpful later on down the road, thanks for posting.