So I've been reading Obama's book, after Beth was cooing about it, and find it to be good. By no means great, but plenty good. The guy's earnestly trying to think through his evolution, and that's cool enough. Mostly I'm excited that I want to read a book by the President-Elect, something that would have been inconceivable ever before in my lifetime.
And you gotta love the fact that he's upfront about his drug use: pot, cocaine, cigarettes, booze, it's all there. Not because any of that is particularly cool, but it is real and honest and it does make him a regular guy. Mostly, I'm proud to live in a country that can elect as it's President somebody who can come clean in print about having had a normal adolescence. Not so long ago we were splitting hairs about inhaling, which led to splitting hairs over the definition of "is". This is a better way.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Dreams of my Father
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I suspect those who do not have doubts about the rule of law and the fact that they live under it had any moral difficultly about what "is" and "inhaling" and adultery constitute. There is no way Obama would have been elected if he had continued wallowing in his own insecurities, uncertain of his place in this world, mired in escapist indulgences like drugs. It makes me proud to see his evolution away from self and toward service to others, and thankful that the American public choose not to elect another immature, self-absorbed, hypocritical, conceited jerk to the Presidency.
The fact that he used enhancement cream but did not come clean about it in his book is a scandal that may break at an inopportune time. I hope he publicizes this most "everyman" type of self-improvement before the tabloids. Maybe we should call Oprah...
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