Thanks for the recommendation. I can always use another book to get gloomy over.
I'm rarely enthusiastic for politicians. With Obama, I felt that I'd seen an astonishing historical arc that started for me with my HS years in the midst of the civil rights movement and culminating in a shared experience with my son for whom it was his first…
Thanks for the recommendation. I can always use another book to get gloomy over.
I'm rarely enthusiastic for politicians. With Obama, I felt that I'd seen an astonishing historical arc that started for me with my HS years in the midst of the civil rights movement and culminating in a shared experience with my son for whom it was his first voting opportunity. On the phone with him at midnight when Ohio was called for Obama was very meaningful to me.
With Bernie, walking to my polling place to be extremely briefly a declared Democrat (rectified before I left the building), I felt that I was representing my immigrant grandma, and great-grandma, and all their family--some of whom were murdered in Uman instead of getting to become Americans--in voting for a Jewish candidate for President.
Sentimental motives and the foolish belief that any representative of either of the two parties might be different from any other in ultimate outcome are feelings I've been well schooled out of during this our Plague Era, and a little before it, of course.
Thanks for the recommendation. I can always use another book to get gloomy over.
I'm rarely enthusiastic for politicians. With Obama, I felt that I'd seen an astonishing historical arc that started for me with my HS years in the midst of the civil rights movement and culminating in a shared experience with my son for whom it was his first voting opportunity. On the phone with him at midnight when Ohio was called for Obama was very meaningful to me.
With Bernie, walking to my polling place to be extremely briefly a declared Democrat (rectified before I left the building), I felt that I was representing my immigrant grandma, and great-grandma, and all their family--some of whom were murdered in Uman instead of getting to become Americans--in voting for a Jewish candidate for President.
Sentimental motives and the foolish belief that any representative of either of the two parties might be different from any other in ultimate outcome are feelings I've been well schooled out of during this our Plague Era, and a little before it, of course.