Intermittent Rant

I’ve always considered myself a committed moderate and independent eschewing party affiliation and the labeling that often goes with it. But I have a confession: I’ve been rooting for Barack Obama in secret for a while now. And I promised myself that if he won Iowa, I would become an Obamaniac. Well, he’s won Iowa, and so…my fellow Americans, I stand before you today to announce my support for the candidacy for President of the United States.

And I think he can win. He’s become a shrewd politician. Think about it, he understands that politics is not about litanies of promises or strictly about experience and how good a candidate’s resume is. He understands it’s about narratives. It’s about the story you tell. When people say, “It’s too early. He should wait a couple of election cycles,” he counters with MLK’s “fierce urgency of now”. When people say, “He’s too fresh. He doesn’t have the experience,” he talks about having the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. When people talk about him being black enough or white enough, he asserts that he’s not running for Black America or White America but the UNITED States of America. And most importantly, he’s talking about CHANGE, when the people are yearning, shouting, screaming for CHANGE.

So my vote’s for CHANGE. My vote’s for Barack Obama.