"The worst lack all conviction
While the best are full of passionate intensity..."
Yeats (paraphrased)
It is disorienting to have a national leader who is curious, articulate, and gracious toward those with different views. It is like waking up with 10 more IQ points--and better manners besides.
I'm sure many are having similar reflections this morning, but in my 39 years the only two other instances of such profound change I can remember feeling in my gut this way were the break-up of the Soviet Union and 9/11.
I hope my children can grow up with eight years of this.
3 comments:
With all due respect, I think, in the end you'll find that Yeats had it the right way round.
Just being himself he dealt a blow to racism.
bush and Obama create a beautiful symmetry in history - like bi-polar disorder.
Extremes can be a wonderful thing..
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