You know something. I did not much like Barack Obama’s victory speech, one that is heralded high and wide as Brilliant Hypnotizing Oratory.<\/p>\n
There probably is no way around the queasy effect of a politician, who needs to posit his or her victory as the start of a Revolutionary Epoch in American history. But somehow I still think, I want to hear something a little bit less… audacious.<\/p>\n
They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose.<\/em><\/p>\n And yet, here we are. This country has come together. Stricken out their disillusionment. Bridged the awesome divides. Found the common purpose. The common purpose, of course, being to get Barack Obama a slew of delegates. In the state of Iowa. The nation, the entire nation, has come together to vote at a 38 percent clip in the localized environment of Iowa to grant him 38 percent of the vote. It is high purpose indeed, transcending the nation’s differences, for Awesome Me.<\/p>\n But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn’t do. <\/em><\/p>\n I remain a bit cynical, I admit. Somehow I fail to understand a post-partisan America, and somehow I fail to see how roughly 50 percent — probably a bit less than that — of Americans aren’t going to be coming together for the Awesome Goal of nominating or Electing Me, Barack Obama, over … that other guy. And gal.<\/p>\n A New Day in America. The Age of Me… Thank you, everyone! This is America’s Purpose.<\/p>\n For what it’s worth, John Edwards left me even more disappointed. How difficult is it to Congratulate Your Victorious Opponent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know something. I did not much like Barack Obama’s victory speech, one that is heralded high and wide as Brilliant Hypnotizing Oratory. There probably is no way around the queasy effect of a politician, who needs to posit his or her victory as the start of a Revolutionary Epoch in American history. But somehow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}