http://www.brucedene.potlikker.com/blog The penultimate last word Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:01:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.brucedene.potlikker.com/blog/blog/the-unmitigated-audacity/ http://www.brucedene.potlikker.com/blog/blog/the-unmitigated-audacity/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:33:20 +0000 Bruce http://www.brucedene.potlikker.com/blog/?p=52 Like everyone else, I’m totally ready for Obama to step into a phone booth, take off the glasses and shoot out the roof, both fists open hands forward. I’m fully aware I should know better, but this time, knowing better seems to sit easily with expecting more. I think it’s because I now ask myself the converse of the question of early 2001: how much damage can one guy really do? Given a whole orchard of low-hanging fruit, from closing Guantanamo to funding science projects (thanks for the inaugural shout-out, says Science), it seems to me that one guy can indeed do a great deal of good without really trying. And when he does try — hoo-boy, that’ll be great. I’ll gladly keep my concerns about Clinton or Vilsack or Elizabeth Alexander to myself for the time being (hello? Kooser?) and just join today’s chorus of good wishes for Obama and the rest of us.

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