Comments on: What’s the big deal about Obama? http://armchairpundit.metapede.com/2009/01/25/whats-the-big-deal-about-obama/ Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:44:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shawn Smith http://armchairpundit.metapede.com/2009/01/25/whats-the-big-deal-about-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Shawn Smith Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:08:25 +0000 http://armchairpundit.metapede.com/?p=508#comment-361 Great comment Margaret. And I'm glad you approve my use of this priceless picture of you. Great comment Margaret. And I’m glad you approve my use of this priceless picture of you.

]]> By: margaret http://armchairpundit.metapede.com/2009/01/25/whats-the-big-deal-about-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-360 margaret Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:19:15 +0000 http://armchairpundit.metapede.com/?p=508#comment-360 I always wanted to believe in Obama: despite a very lean track record in terms of experience, almost everything he said or did seemed right to me. What other candidate so personified ethics, pragmatism, post-partisanship, intelligence, discipline, hard work? What other candidate was as artful at walking the line between the moral imperative to help your fellow man and recognition of the power of the market? Who else objected to the war in Iraq, and all its attendant issues, as early and consistently as Obama? I just wasn't sure the rest of the country would be willing to vote for a madrasa-educated black man. Or a woman, for that matter. So that day on the mall for me was all about pride in being part of the body politic that made a decision for Obama when history and entropy and so much was against him. For the first time in 8 long years I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!! Love the pic. Tho just seeing it is making me cold again. I always wanted to believe in Obama: despite a very lean track record in terms of experience, almost everything he said or did seemed right to me. What other candidate so personified ethics, pragmatism, post-partisanship, intelligence, discipline, hard work? What other candidate was as artful at walking the line between the moral imperative to help your fellow man and recognition of the power of the market? Who else objected to the war in Iraq, and all its attendant issues, as early and consistently as Obama? I just wasn’t sure the rest of the country would be willing to vote for a madrasa-educated black man. Or a woman, for that matter. So that day on the mall for me was all about pride in being part of the body politic that made a decision for Obama when history and entropy and so much was against him. For the first time in 8 long years I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!

Love the pic. Tho just seeing it is making me cold again.

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