Obama Hears A WHO(pe)
I just got back from seeing the new Jim Carey, CGI version of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who.
While watching it, I came to the realization that in some ways (I'll
try not to stretch the analogy too far) it parallels the current
Democratic primary race.
In my view, Horton is Obama trying to get the public to hear what he is hearing, which in the campaign is not tiny persons living on a dust speck, but the silent hopes of the American People.
Clinton is the traditionalist kangaroo who is afraid of change and wants to boil the hope out of the speck in a cauldron of beezlenut oil. In fact she denies that hope even exists.
What Obama (and the American people) need is that one additional little voice to yell out and let the doubters know that hope is alive. I don't know if that voice is the voters of PA, or Al Gore finally weighing in, or perhaps - and this is a stretch of the parallel - the child of the 'kangaroo', which in this campaign would be Chelsea Clinton. But its clear the voices of 13 million Americans that have ready yelled out "We Are Here" (or perhaps it was 'Yes We Can!') have not yet been heard by the Kangaroo.
In my view, Horton is Obama trying to get the public to hear what he is hearing, which in the campaign is not tiny persons living on a dust speck, but the silent hopes of the American People.
Clinton is the traditionalist kangaroo who is afraid of change and wants to boil the hope out of the speck in a cauldron of beezlenut oil. In fact she denies that hope even exists.
What Obama (and the American people) need is that one additional little voice to yell out and let the doubters know that hope is alive. I don't know if that voice is the voters of PA, or Al Gore finally weighing in, or perhaps - and this is a stretch of the parallel - the child of the 'kangaroo', which in this campaign would be Chelsea Clinton. But its clear the voices of 13 million Americans that have ready yelled out "We Are Here" (or perhaps it was 'Yes We Can!') have not yet been heard by the Kangaroo.
