But hey, this is me.
So okay. The mass Kennedy endorsement of Barack Obama.
On the grounds of idealism.
Said Caroline Kennedy, "Over the years, I've been deeply moved by the people who've told me they wish they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. ...there is one candidate who offers that same sense of hope and inspiration [Barack Obama]."
Okay, um...I'm probably the only one, but I don't want an idealistic candidate. I don't want a candidate of hope and transformation. I may well end up voting for Mr. Obama, but not because of that.
It's too soon for hope right now in this country. This is not 1960. It's not even 1992. It's 2008, god help us, with global warming, peak oil, imperialism, domestic spying, torture, subprime, resegregation, deindustrialization, ascendant creationism, international revulsion, and everything in hock to China. I don't want to hear somebody saying we can all come together for any purpose other than to bury our dead and start the road back. Step by step.
The Kennedys may well have done the right thing by endorsing Obama. But, to me, they did it for the wrong reason.
IMHO. YMMV.
