E!! The True Conservative Story™

This New Republic piece on Obama’s community organizer days is long-ish but just excellent.

The sum-up is that Obama was a young idealist who quickly learned his dreams could not be put into practice in the real world as a community organizer. So, he quit, went to law school, ran for office, and transformed himself into what he is now.

What Obama perhaps doesn’t realize is that he will still have to deal with the real world if he becomes President, and I imagine that he will once again be disillusioned (with the world, but never with himself…)

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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to
live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same
time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn,
burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders
across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop
and everybody goes “Awww!”    –Jack Kerouac