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Obama's double magic
By allowing voters to both vent their anger and overcome it, while embodying the transcendence of America's racial wound, Barack Obama offers not just hope, but alchemy.
By Gary Kamiya [2008-01-08]

  • Don't forget the Jesus party was out of power for 300 years after the crucifixtion

    @Green Job

    So...you would have preferred Ford?

    -- AJCalhoun

    Comparing Obama to Carter (and Bush to Nixon) isn't the same as supporting Ford. It's just observing that we've heard this song before and that in reviewing Carter's accomplishments -- the Camp David Peace accords, beating Ford, Billy Beer & the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics -- Political Transcendence isn't among them. But then beating Reagan and the Iranian hostage crisis weren't among them either.

    So I'm little skeptical about the second coming of a Jesus who preaches change while endorsing Joe Lieberman.

    -- Green Job
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    Tuesday, January 8, 2008 12:10 PM
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