Jeremayakovka
2008-02-29 09:38:55
I don’t fault the students for turning out en masse to witness the coming of The Barack.
Jesse Jackson was the biggest draw on the Berkeley campus in Fall 1988. Having failed to capture the Democratic nomination that year, he’d come to stump for Michael Dukakis. I knew little about politics, less about political philosophy – I just knew I wanted to believe.
I also recall being that his vague rhetoric left a queasy feeling. It just took me over a decade to fully interrogate the causes of that queasiness.
Conservatives – and McCain in particular – have a great opportunity to “talk back to Barack” this year, to talk truly and directly to young people, the way they truly deserve.
