Check out the Washington Post's in-depth profile of Sen. Obama's senior adviser, David Alexrod. The photo of Mr. Axelrod looking mysteriously like Doc Graham from "Field of Dreams" sets the heartwarming and inspiring tone of the article.
In a long, drawn-out, and increasingly ugly campaign, it sometimes is hard to remember why we worked so hard in weeks and months leading up to February. Recently, the prospects for hope and change have been dragged through the mud of politics as usual.
So do we settle for what we know, what will never deliver our dreams but what we know is safe? Or do we yearn for something more, and work tirelessly day-in and day-out to make that dream a reality?
It is so inevitably a choice that belongs to us, no matter how much we might wish to shrug it off. Is it possible for the people of our generation to believe in a politics that we have not seen in our lifetime? Is it possible for those of our parents' and grandparents' generations to remember back to the days of John and Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and believe that once again, at the beginning of the 21st century, there time has come?
Mr. Axelrod is an example of an ordinary person who worked extraordinarily hard and made politics in our country better. If he can not only survive, but flourish up against the divisiveness of Washington, what's to suggest that we can't?
In a long, drawn-out, and increasingly ugly campaign, it sometimes is hard to remember why we worked so hard in weeks and months leading up to February. Recently, the prospects for hope and change have been dragged through the mud of politics as usual.
So do we settle for what we know, what will never deliver our dreams but what we know is safe? Or do we yearn for something more, and work tirelessly day-in and day-out to make that dream a reality?
It is so inevitably a choice that belongs to us, no matter how much we might wish to shrug it off. Is it possible for the people of our generation to believe in a politics that we have not seen in our lifetime? Is it possible for those of our parents' and grandparents' generations to remember back to the days of John and Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and believe that once again, at the beginning of the 21st century, there time has come?
Mr. Axelrod is an example of an ordinary person who worked extraordinarily hard and made politics in our country better. If he can not only survive, but flourish up against the divisiveness of Washington, what's to suggest that we can't?
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Is that a thinly veiled endorsement of Mr. Obama by Mr. Kiefer?
i prefer to say "overt" endorsement for the junior senator from illinois.
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