On Obama: META hot air: HOT AIR on hot air.

Ezra Klein is apparently a reasonably well-known liberal blogger. I find this description of Obama's speeches absolutely beyond belief. To react properly to this one must be completely stoned on political hero worship or some other powerful drug, that makes the stomach immune to upset and represses the laughter reflex.
The whole article is at prospect.org


Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence