The Joshua Generation
Race and the campaign of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on language, on the expression of a country’s potential and the self-expression of a complicated man who could reflect and lead that country. And a powerful thematic undercurrent of his oratory and prose was race. Not race as ... Full Story »
Posted by Leo Romero
The article is a positive story of the past campaign. Now the focus needs to shift to the present and future, with the opportunities and limitations facing us. How can a remarkable person and politician navigate the problems of the economy, climate change, overpopulation, and an obsession with wielding weapons of war?