Obama: hope, change and reality
I believe I recall Barack Obama quoting Otto Von Bismarck's edict that "politics is the art of the possible," and evidence of that optimism abounds everywhere I look in Denver today. The two words we seem to be hearing more than any others are "hope" and "change," and we saw a wonderfully eloquent articulation of this enthusiasm last night in Wendy Redal's post on starstruck idealism.
There's no question (among rational people, anyway) that change is sorely needed, and after the last eight years hope is a precious and endangered commodity. Hope is the fuel of change, and sadly a lot of our traditional reserves are running dry.
I want to hope, and I'm being implored to hope, but really, should I? More