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From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: Hooray!!!
> Well said, Fred. Even from this distance, the hope spread. Andrew
>
When Reagan was elected in '80, my wife (whom I didn't meet until '82) had,
she told me, a dreadful lonely feeling that "from now on there would be no
'we,' only 'me'." Obama has a schooled patience, an observant detachment;
he is as close to an intellectual (as opposed to a "wonk") as we can ever
expect. But when he speaks, as he did last night, of community, mutual
respect, all of us being in this together, one feels he means it. That it
isn't a transparent self-serving lie, like Bush's "I'm a uniter," but that
this vision represents Obama's OWN hope - what has carried him as much as,
perhaps more than, ambition. And this, more than anything, is what I have
found so moving today.
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