Obamism: The Politics of Hope in the Year of the Political Independent

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11916

Obamism: The Politics of Hope in the Year of the Political Independent

by Brent Budowsky | January 4, 2008


Something great is happening in America and for today, after Iowa, we can call it "Obamism," though it involves movements of history, people and ideas that come in many flavors and are offered by many voices, whose torch may or may not ultimately be carried by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

The real America is back again, rising above the overwhelming negativities of the Bush years and the suffocating banalities of the chattering insider classes who were wrong, yet again, as usual, about Iowa because they are so wrapped up in their insider interests and cocoons that they miss what is happening in the real America.

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Let's give a standing ovation to Sens. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who conducted themselves with honor and brought enormous experience and wise counsel that should have been given far more attention than they were.

Let's hope that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) views her defeat not as a reason to escalate the tactics that have so alienated political independents, but as an opportunity to liberate herself from insiderism as she has liberated herself from sexism, and thereby make her a better candidate, more likely to be elected, and a better president if she is.

Let's cheer for former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), who speaks for the voiceless with passion, and for Elizabeth Edwards, a woman of extraordinary courage who stands as the most trusted adviser to the man she loves, in the cause they share.

And whether he ultimately carries the torch, which he may well do, let's understand that Obamism is bigger than Obama, that he has tapped into powerful currents that embody the best of American politics, that he is speaking for the yearnings of the realigning majority of the American people.

Obamism embodies the politics of hope in the year of the political independent, and as the morning sun shines in Iowa and the attention of the nation shifts to New Hampshire, the era of Bush has ended, and the great debate, about the future of the greatest nation that God ever put on this earth, has only just begun.

[rodeodance]

1. Heads up: ALL 'isms' are dangerous

[laureloak]

2. That kind of crap will turn me into and Independent REAL fast.

[niceypoo]

3. Lets all sing Kumbaya

while the republicans rip Obama to shreds

[babylonsister]

4. Republicans? Look around, and in the mirror. nt

[Cameron27]

5. I can see why Republicans would push

for bipartisanship, since their party's in a shambles, but I'm not ready for reconcilation. Stack the Congress with Dems, and screw them.