...has got to be "President Obama."
It keeps taking me by surprise--a moment where I realize the world really can be the place that, for the last 8 years, we could only imagine. I feel a little leap in my chest, like when you wake up at 4:30 in the morning and realize it's Saturday so the alarm won't be going off in an hour and you can roll over and go back to sleep.
What impresses me most is the sheer number of people who share this feeling and who are also willing to answer Obama's call to service. It feels like the trend toward apathy and inaction may be breaking down. Today, a local paint store donated paint and supplies to repaint an elementary school. Dozens of volunteers have signed up to help paint this weekend at USA Service, a site designed by the Obama team to connect volunteers with projects in their communities.
I think the Rude Pundit today put it best:
"If you think about it, this was what this America was poised to become after September 11, 2001, had the former administration decided to harness the power of unity. But, then again, it was never very good with alternative forms of energy."
This is exactly what we should have been doing after 9/11, and what were we asked to do instead? Shop. Go back to being good little consumers so we can keep playing this neverending game of money and politics.
I feel so much better now.
2 comments:
That was an enjoyable, well put post -- shop indeed!
It is like the end of a long nightmare - where you wake up and realize that you weren't in a turkish prison, and life may actually just be ok again.
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