Fresh off his recent voyage on the Santa Maria, where he discovered the American continent, columnist Thomas Friedman discovered Barack Obama and wrote about it in yesterday’s New York Times:
“It seems to me that the strongest case one could make for an Obama presidency right now is rarely articulated: it is his potential to repair the broken relationship between America and the world.
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I believe that what has propelled his candidacy up to now — more than anything — is that many Americans have projected onto him their hunger for community, their hunger for a president with the voice, instincts and moral authority to make it so much harder for foreigners to be anti-American or for Americans to be anti-one-another.”
Amazing!
Tune in next week for Friedman’s discovery of…penicillin.
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Nice catch. Although, I think the most compelling thing about Barack Obama is his vision of American potential. He always brings me back to Clinton’s quote, “There’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed by what’s right with America.” We haven’t had any leadership with the willingness to embrace everyone and help them find a way to build something great in a while. You’d have thought Hillary would have come out with the same message, too. Go figure.
Posted 19 Apr 2007 at 7:42 am ¶Hi Rob,
Thanks for writing!
On a certain level I don’t “get” what Hillary is trying to do. My guess is that her campaign thought she was a shoe-in - so they thought she could be conservative in the primaries to avoid damage in the general.
I think they made a huge miscalculation of what it will take to win the primaries - but we’ll see.
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