Here is one blogger's view on Obama's message of unity and hope:
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in 2008 we can still strive for The Unifying Hope of Hopefulness via one Barack Obama:
Obama's whole campaign is based on some of the most noble and inspiring sentiments in political life: hope, togetherness, bipartisanship.
As he proclaimed last February at a Democratic National Committee meeting: "There are those who don't believe in talking about hope. They say, 'Well, we want specifics, we want details, and we want white papers, and we want plans.' We've had a lot of plans, Democrats. What we've had is a shortage of hope. And over the next year, over the next two years, that will be my call to you."
He's stayed true to that pledge. Not only does he talk about hope - a lot - he talks about the importance of talking about hope. He talks about how he hopes to talk more about talking about the importance of talking about hope. Hopefully.
He touts unity the same way. If we all buy into his "message of hope," he explains, then everybody - blacks and whites, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, lions and gnus, bears and park rangers, Superman and Lex Luthor - will be united!
But united toward what end, exactly? Or does it all boil down to being united about being hopeful and hopeful about being united?
Will we ever understand the full, rich, meaty complexity of Obama's hopeful message? We can always hope.
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