What Obama’s Win Says About America:
Jonathan Schell, renowned best-selling author, anti-nuclear activist, prolific journalist, lecturer, and teacher at Yale, talks with Paul Jay of The Real News discussing his take on the social meaning behind and underlying all the politics of Barack Obama’s election last Tuesday. Schell is a frequent contributor to The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and Atlantic Monthly, and author of The Fate of the Earth, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
November 9, 2008 – 7 min 30
What Obama win means
Jonathan Schell: The election of Obama says something about Americans
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What does it say to you?
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beyond hate and the manufactured imagery of evil.
Thank you, Edger, for posting this. I must say I am mucho amiss. I had not found The Real News until I saw this. I’m intrigued, to say the least. Thanks again!
You asking me? 😉
Obama has shown throughout that he has a unique ability to dismiss fear-mongering, darkness, evil and filthy-low rhetoric without lowering himself to the same level. And, the manner in which he does it, you feel all of that “baggage” dissipating into meaninglessness after so many years and, now, for the first time in so long, I think we see the light through the door! He’s a very intelligent man and, if anything, we will be able to deal with his ability to be rational and logical.