i think the times have called for a new politics, and he has answered that call, having previously done an enormous amount of homework to just that end.

his impressive use of the internet reminds me of chris cook's exhortations to dump the middlemen, his outreach is so granular, it's burst the banks of any institution that could have contained it and has so many believing in a better future where once they faced only a growing despair.

he has his ego in perfect harness to the needs of a people, and will lead by example, by austerity, if need be.

in this he reminds me of lincoln, another very saturnine man.

in some ways, he is rewriting the book on what being a leader should be, as well as a family man and responsible, socially aware human being.

unless he's the ultimate manchurian candidate, and all the new budget goes into 'pacifying' afghanistan, supporting israel to the continued tune of $15 million a day, bailing out billionaires...well i better stop there...

only time'll tell, if he's either the best news the political planet has had in centuries, or the slyest, most crafty, silver-tongued stooge in all of history.

my bet's on the former, but i have my moments, especially when he's doing the requisite daddy protector growl while talking about the bad guys.

i also sense some cog-diss in how one minute americans have to change from being resource hogs, and the next the american way of life is not up for negotiation, ala pappy bushman.

non quadra, as the italians say.

3 years from now we'll see obama doing photo-ops shovelling shit in his vegetable patch, riding his bike to work (not falling off his segway), and baking his own pretzels in his solar oven, (not choking on them).

one night a week in the homeless shelter, can all the pomp, and shows up for G8 meetings in dungarees.

doin' the funky chicken!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty