From Deep Within His Gut...

...this guy loves Obama.  Why?  Because of what it says about us:

...the greatest thing about Obama isn't really about Obama at all, per se. It's actually about, well, us.

This is the great revelation: We still got it. The collective unconscious, the deep sense of inner wisdom, that intuitive knowing that borders on a kind of mystical proficiency, where millions of people can actually look beyond rhetoric and media spin and merely feel the presence of something great in the room? Yep, still there. Who knew?

See, this is what I hear most from relatives and readers and friends and newborn activists who were never activists before: Obama speaks to the intuition. It's about the sixth sense. It's not just what he says or how he behaves in the debates or the policy wonking or the "Change" banners or any of the typical, tangible factors — although those have proven to be remarkably positive, too.

It's this: People feel it. They hear an Obama speech or read the articles or talk to like-minded folk, and they squint their eyes and weigh everything and then dismiss all that surface crap and get that look on their face that says, you know what? This guy gets it. He feels right. It's not a trick of light. It's not complete bulls—. It's not the usual spin and manipulation and fakery. There is actual meat on this bone.

...I trust the shockingly widespread sense, not merely of hope and change, but of collective wisdom swimming though the air like an electrical surge between every smart, creative person on the planet right now, a bolt of energy that says: Hey, we're still together. We still got it. Smart, intuitive people are still a force. There is life in the revolution yet.

Sweet holy Moses. What a bunch of blanched shoelaces.

Comments

[DRaftervoi]

Jeez, Gail, you clearly didn't do a lot of acid or mescaline. I COMPLETELY get the Obama vibe: he's the wait we've been changing for. He's a bone, he's the meat. He's two, two, two mints in one! He probably even knows the secret recipe for Retsyn.

On the other hand, I know which side of the bread has the butter on it and I will not vote for him. I WANNA vote for him, but I'm not starry eyed and stupid anymore....no matter what the ex-wife says 'bout me....

[Gail]

I think that instead of bringing us together, Obama has actually done damage to race relations in this country. The country is ready for a black president, but not one who is mentored by a racist who believes in crazy white conspiracy theories. His rantings are an insult, and Obama should have recognized that they would be. For him to have claimed he ddn't know about Wright's ideas was completely disingenuous, and I have lost respect for him as a result.

I think you are quite right - the writer in the article above must have been on acid.

[AndyJ]

Obama has done a lot for race relations- even if he does nothing more. He has achieved success and shown that America will elect a black person. His lack of experience and aned personal problems are starting to surface and those will be avoided in the next black person.

Obama has also shown the racism of the Black-Nationalist Underground... Or Above ground... That group of people who feed on the Victim-Mentality. Those who will spend their lives feeling opressed and victimized ...even tho their eyes and experiences say different... The Victim Predators have been exposed to the glare of TV. White TVs would never have shown the Black nationalist Racism unless and until his pastor was shown ranting in a "Best Of" DVD sold in the church bookstore...

what it exposed about Obama is that he is blind to black racism. That he has no convictions that say black people are guilty of anything fraudlent, racist, or bigoted... He has bought into a world where only white people are racist... despite his upbring in Hawaii and living with white grandparents... He wants to be accepted as black more than he wants anything else... His political naivete and inexperience is showing... He wa molded and sold as The Back Kennedy... Too bad he wasn't his own person... Then he might have been the one everyone thought he was...