Is it not time to let our "young men dream visions?"

[Skidmore]

"Old men dream, young men dream visions."

It is time to relinquish some power to a younger generation. A generation not forever looking downward at the fields of Normandy or the rice paddies of Vietnam. A generation not forever fighting their war only with a different people, trotting out the same tired, unproven ideologies and strategies and meeting failure in some surrealistic ring of Inferno custom designed for American political aspirationalists. We need change--with a capital "C".

Wisdom is associated with age and experience. I'm very much convinced that in a culture obsessed with staying young, wisdom has atrophied as a virtue. We certainly haven't been calling upon wisdom to guide us as a nation and have onloy been relying on the ephemeral images trotted out by the Shiny Thing Department of Public Policy. If the majority of us who are older are unwilling to do more than obsess about the wrinkles and few extra pounds we see in the mirror, then we have little wisdom to impart and the torch should be passed.

This, my friends, is why I support Obama in this primary season. I see a young man with wisdom, intelligence, and integrity--one who can "dream visions." A man who can see the stumbling blocks in the road ahead rather than tripping over them for want of looking. A man who can engender hope for a better future over an improved past. A man who can see the world my grandchildren will live in rather than seeking incessantly to reconstruct the world of my parents.

We need change. We need vision.

[EST]

1. I agree with your point, but Obama is nearly fifty years old.

That hardly represents vibrant, young, new thought. He's still fairly new on the national political scene, but, I think, we imbue him with more creativity and originality that he actually deserves.

[madokie]

2. his reaching out to tom coburn makes me question his sanity

'cause dr tom is batshit crazy, loony as a nut and as reighwing as they come

[EST]

4. True.

I wonder how it is that people out here, without (supposedly) the information and political savvy available to the wunderkind in Washington, can see the obvious and can tell the truth about reality, while the folks with their fingers on the supposed pulse of all the important shit are apparently operating without a clue.

'Nother words--why do such smart people make such stupid decisions and say such dumb things? The wrong people are in Washington. We need people who are good at it but don't want to do it.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

3. Obama only seems creative and imaginative..

In contrast to most of the rest of the political class...

A class in which creativity and imagination are considered to be a curse.