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That Incessant Chanting

By js

This new video is easy to misinterpret. As the resident Obamaphile, I think it deserves a more sympathetic viewing. I first posted this in the comments to wt's original post.

It is, in my view, an expression of the emotional core of Obama's appeal, not an argument for his candidacy. For those of us who see the Bush Administration as a disaster, the desire for something different is gut-level deep. We don't just want change, we need change.

Yes, the chanting is a little creepy, but remember that these emotions are not pouring out because they've been whipped up by a cultish smooth-talker. Rather, these are people and hopes that haven't had a political voice for nearly a generation. Obama quite forthrightly asks people to believe in him for concrete and practical reasons. And people do, and they express it. The movement is the message, not the man.

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).