Feb 052008
I’m leaving shortly for my caucus, where I’ll be supporting Barack Obama. I like and respect Hillary, but Obama is the kind of candidate who comes along once in a generation. He has the capacity, more than any other political leader I’ve seen in my lifetime, to restore our faith in ourselves and our country. He personifies all the best qualities of the American civic character: intelligence, vision, passion, and humility. Clinton would make a fine president and I will gladly support her if she is the nominee. But tonight, I’m feeling like I can play a small part in ushering in an age of transformation that finally slams the door shut on the twentieth century and carries us into a future we’ve imagined for far too long.
Because of the absolute beauty of this paragraph, and because of the melody that accompanies the sentence, I’ve read it to the very last word. Come to think of it, the contents is not bad either. That’s how political journalists for instance, seduce readers to accept their opinions.
In other words, language has always been a companion to might.
Mieke.