Interstitiality

Quote of the Day

Michelle sent this to me:

Quotes From:
BARACK OBAMA
THE AUDACITY of HOPE
RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM
Publication Date: October 2006
CROWN
Text copyright © 2006 by Barack Obama

“When Democrats rush up to me at events and insist that we live
in the worst of political times, that a creeping fascism is closing
its grip around our throats, I may mention the internment of
Japanese Americans under FDR, the Alien and Sedition laws
under Adams, or a hundred years of lynching under several
dozen administrations as having been possibly worse, and suggest
we all take a deep breath. When people at dinner parties
ask me how I can possibly operate in the current political environment, with all the negative campaigning and personal
attacks, I remind them of Nelson Mandela, Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, or some guy in a Chinese or Egyptian prison
somewhere. In truth, being called names is not such a bad deal.
Still, I am not immune to distress. And like most
Americans, I find it hard to shake the feeling these days that
our democracy has gone seriously awry.”

“We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding,
but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe
ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and
cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving
these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans
them, exploits them, and drives us further apart.”

Questions of the Day: Can we just make this guy president?

Posted by Frank Yamada at June 12, 2006 05:27 PM