Rolling Stone endorses Barack Obama (A New Hope)

[catgirl]

The tides of history are rising higher and faster these days. Read them right and ride them, or be crushed. And then along comes Barack Obama, with the kinds of gifts that appear in politics but once every few generations. There is a sense of dignity, even majesty, about him, and underneath that ease lies a resolute discipline. It's not just that he is eloquent — with that ability to speak both to you and to speak for you — it's that he has a quality of thinking and intellectual and emotional honesty that is extraordinary.
I first learned of Barack Obama from a man who was at the highest level of George W. Bush's political organization through two presidential campaigns. He described the first-term senator from Illinois as "a walking hope machine" and told me that he would not work for any Republican candidate in 2008 if Obama was nominated. He challenged me to read Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father.

The book was a revelation. Here was a man whose honesty about himself and understanding of the human condition are both deep and compassionate. Born to a white mother and an African father, he was raised in multiracial Hawaii and for several years in Indonesia. He drifted through some druggy teenage years — no apologies! — before emerging as a star at Harvard Law School. He chose to work as a community organizer in the projects of Chicago rather than join the wealthy insider world of corporate law. And as a young adult, he searched, in the distant villages of Kenya, for the father and family he never knew.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/19106551/a_new_hope

[Bread and Circus]

1. Star Wars IV: A New Hope

Sounds about right!!!

Even consider this: Darth Cheney and Barack Skywalker are actually related, similar to the movie

[catgirl]

4. self delete

[SoFlaJet]

2. well I guess we can cross Rolling Stone

off the list of reading material by the Clinton cultists now. Sad, that they are running out of periodicals and radio AND TV stations they now can watch

[catgirl]

3. It's a nice article N/T

[aquarius dawning]

7. I haven't picked up a copy of Rolling Stone in 20 years probably.

I prefer the Wall Street Journal to Rolling Stone actually.

[9119495]

11. ugh. Worst editorial page in the world (WSJ). How can you say that?

[Coexist]

5. how nice.

[SoFlaJet]

9. yea FLD

the Clinton cultists are so very far advanced than us simple Obama folk you know-Hmmm Wall Street Journal...isn't that a RW rag?

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Lucinda]

8. Not surprising if your read RS - they have been verry pro-Obama

A great get for Obama.

[SteppingRazor]

10. Odd note: The article says it was posted on March 20.

So, does Jann Wenner have a time machine or what?

[americanstranger]

15. Print date for the RS issue.

- as

[Voice for Peace]

12. Thanks! Great article. nt

[LulaMay]

13. Shocker! A guys dominated T & A Rock Rag endorses...a guy!

Just listen to the overbearing machismo boasting in this crud.....

Obama has "MAJESTY",

Really? Is that what this is about? When do we start calling him "YOUR MAJESTY"?

Give me a break.

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. great article, thanks for posting.........

:thumbsup:

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Rolling Stone's cover story right here as well (set for March 20)

The Machinery of Hope
Link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/19106326

Enjoy!!

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