The following quote is part of the commentary from
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/opinion/04brooks.html
in which NYTimes columnlist David Brook described how Obama's politics
can be different,
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"And Barack Obama leapt right in.
He spoke after 11 p.m. The crowd had been sitting for four hours. In
the previous months, Obama had been criticized for being bland on the
stump. But this night, he unleashed a zealous part of himself that has
propelled his candidacy ever since.
His first big subject was belief itself. Instead of waging a partisan
campaign as Clinton had just done, he vowed to address "not just
Democrats, but Republicans and independents who've lost trust in their
government but want to believe again."
Then he made a broader attack on the political class, and without
mentioning her, threw Clinton in with the decrepit old order. "The
same old Wa****ngton textbook campaigns just won't do," he said, in a
now familiar line. He said it was time to "finally tackle problems
that George Bush made far worse but that had festered long before
George Bush ever took office -- the problems that we've talked about
year after year after year."
Obama sketched out a different theory of social change than the one
Clinton had implied earlier in the evening. Instead of relying on a
president who fights for those who feel invisible, Obama, in the
climactic passage of his speech, described how change bubbles from the
bottom-up: "And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up.
And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And
standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to
change the world!""
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Great words!!
And I would go one step furtherer. "Change bubbles from the bottom up"
is the essence of demcoracy.
Any such change is the defining moment of any democracy.
But then I am perplexed.
Does anyone believe Obama's "change bubbles from the bottom up"?
If so, there is no reason for any beleiver to wait for Obama to take
the presidency?
He or she should be thinking about change and how this change can
buble up early on.
How come there is no change bubbles up since Obama had made himself
known politically?
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