A fascinating article about Barack Obama by Andrew Sullivan in the Atlantic. It offers a perspective of why Obama's candidacy, and if elected, his presidency, could move this country in a new, positive direction. Sullivan believes that Obama is the catalyst for finding, exploring, and bringing about common ground as a matter of principle. Sullivan believes Obama could bring together varied interests within this country, and take this country to a place where it is viewed both as a leader and a partner on the global front.
At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce.
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