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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Quote of the Year: Case for Obama
This is from last year but Andrew Sullivan's early case for Obama is as prescient and wise as ever:
If you believe that America’s current crisis is not a deep one ... if you believe that today’s ideological polarization is not dangerous, and that what appears dark today is an illusion fostered by the lingering trauma of the Bush presidency, then the argument for Obama is not that strong ...
But if you sense, as I do, that greater danger lies ahead, and that our divisions and recent history have combined to make the American polity and constitutional order increasingly vulnerable, then the calculus of risk changes. Sometimes, when the world is changing rapidly, the greater risk is caution. Close-up in this election campaign, Obama is unlikely. From a distance, he is necessary. At a time when America’s estrangement from the world risks tipping into dangerous imbalance, when a country at war with lethal enemies is also increasingly at war with itself, when humankind’s spiritual yearnings veer between an excess of certainty and an inability to believe anything at all, and when sectarian and racial divides seem as intractable as ever, a man who is a bridge between these worlds may be indispensable.
Posted by Metavirus at 10/26/2008 06:27:00 PM
Tags: Andrew Sullivan , Barack Obama , Case for Obama , Conservatives , Election 2008 , General Election , Independents , Quotes , Republicans
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