An important moment

My life has been, well, busy doesn’t quite have the muster for describing the recent quotidian plodding of The Chad, and I haven’t been blogging nearly as much as I would like. But in a really, really bizarre way I found myself stumbling across these two videos. The first is a spur-of-the-moment interview done outside the Democratic debate in LA, and given what most on-the-street interviews say about the idea of “average intelligence” I found this extremely insightful, not for Obama’s ideas on policy (details), but for how informed, how enervated this country is about politics.

If you are interested in more on what he has to say, check out his response on youtube.

For the second video, this is the last 10 minutes of Barak Obama’s speech in front of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. This goes to the heart of what Obama brings to the dry lake bed that is our political spectrum, and why so many of us find something so unexpected and so precious in what this man represents.

This is an important moment. My first presidential vote went to Bill Clinton in ‘92 and after 12 long years living under the plague of Reagan and Bush he was a breath of fresh air. But he wasn’t this. This is something new in my lifetime.

-c