Obama has fate going for him: Despite no Obama organization operating or being obvious in the six rural Democratic precincts I coordinated for Washington State’s caucuses on February 9, the Democrats assembled went for Obama roughly 65 to 35 percent. I hasten to add no Clinton organization manifested itself either in this area where resolutions for consideration by the national party beg for an end to gun control while begging for an end to the war. (A number of boys in these parts opted for the Army or Marines rather than calked boots, chainsaws and hard hats in the evergreen woods, and have come home from Iraq in wooden caskets, with a flag for their folks as a souvenir.)
Obama is surfing a great wave of discontent in the U.S. People don't just want change. They want new. And they want it now. Obama is the only personification, the only voice of that desire. I voted for him, but not because he has any philosophical depth deeper than a sheet of copy paper but because I'm weary of the establishment. I'm willing to support him, but no one should ask me to outline his policies or ideas, because I haven't experienced any of those yet.
He is atop the wave right now. Just hope that it's big enough, tall enough and wide enough and powerful enough to deposit him triumphant on the beach. Just hope, in fact, that Osama Bin Laden–the greatest general of the past century–doesn’t score another cheap triumph against innocents in this country just before the election and sweep John McCain with his miliary mien into the White House.
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