Obama

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Thursday, April 9, 2009
I don't know about the rest of you, but I am still enthralled by the new attitude espoused by the President of my neighbor to the south. Not only is he a take charge guy but his method is inclusion rather than the superior posturing that W used to treat his allies and his enemies. There seems to be a realization that America under Bush/Cheney was nearly universally hated and that reparations are needed. 

I was pleased to read that Obama hosted the first 'seder' in the White House. I am neither a religious Jew nor a fervent Zionist but, as a writer,  I do believe in the importance of the symbolic gesture. 

It seems as if, to this point in any case, the guy is real and the promise of change is genuine. I don't understand the GOP clinging to a rationale that has clearly passed them by. It may be because I am not American but negativity in politics rarely wins the day.

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Obama

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Thursday, April 9, 2009
I don't know about the rest of you, but I am still enthralled by the new attitude espoused by the President of my neighbor to the south. Not only is he a take charge guy but his method is inclusion rather than the superior posturing that W used to treat his allies and his enemies. There seems to be a realization that America under Bush/Cheney was nearly universally hated and that reparations are needed. 

I was pleased to read that Obama hosted the first 'seder' in the White House. I am neither a religious Jew nor a fervent Zionist but, as a writer,  I do believe in the importance of the symbolic gesture. 

It seems as if, to this point in any case, the guy is real and the promise of change is genuine. I don't understand the GOP clinging to a rationale that has clearly passed them by. It may be because I am not American but negativity in politics rarely wins the day.

Next post: It's happening.
Previous post: Mired in the sixties

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