Don’t get me wrong. I’m as audaciously hopeful as the next guy, but I gotta tell ya. I’m a bit Obama’d out right now. I mean c’mon. CNN spent at least 3 hours Saturday covering a train ride with live streaming video from (hold on to your hat) inside the train! I can’t tell you how thrilling it was for me to read (I was on a treadmill at a fitness club) completely meaningless commentary while watching bad video of landscape passing by a train window.
Stupid. I don’t care how “historic” it was.
Ok. It’s going to be an historic inauguration with millions of people. That’s nice. Let’s get this over with so we can get back to work. One thing the mainstream media is good at is manufacturing drama.
So if your a bit tired of it all, join the club.
If you’re not, you might enjoy this short interview from an interview run in the New Yorker in 1996. It’s a brief (couple paragraph) two part monologue–one by Michelle, one by Barack in which they discuss their relationship.
In it the first lady says,
There is a strong possibility that Barack will pursue a political career, although it’s unclear. There is a little tension with that. I’m very wary of politics. I think he’s too much of a good guy for the kind of brutality, the skepticism.
What’s interesting to me about this is how much personal transformation is possible within the span of just thirteen years.
Then I think about my own life, the lives of my siblings, my own children, my colleagues and students . . . and I have hope.
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