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Obama vs. the Movement

Submitted June 25, 2008 - 7:20 pm by Mary in Seattle (not verified)

I read the Tom Hayden piece (link below) in January and agree with him.  While I'm hopeful about Obama, it's the movement he has inspired that makes me the most hopeful:

Barack Obama is giving voice and space to an awakening beyond his wildest expectations, a social force that may lead him far beyond his modest policy agend [sic]. Such movements in the past led the Kennedys and Franklin Roosevelt to achievements they never contemplated. [As Gandhi once said of India's liberation movement, "There go my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader."]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/an-endorsement-of-the-mov_b_83478.html

I also feel Obama is a shrewd strategist and will do what is necessary to win.  And that's okay with me.

Loved your post, Al.  You perfectly articulated my feelings about why the Dems have been losing for over a decade (as well as why I became an Independent in the 90s).

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