There was a time when (rightly so) Joe Klein was roundly criticized around here. But this election has inspired some real journalistic brilliance and he has written some of the best articles on Obama - the man, the movement, the journey - that I've read.
On the heels of Senator Obama's grandmother's untimely passing, Klein has once again put into words what I think many of us have tried to explain but have fallen short: the real sense of hope and optimism, and yes, idealism we all feel on the eve of what we pray will be a historic moment in our country's history. And the role Barack's grandmother had in shaping him.
Word comes that Barack Obama's grandmother has died. The timing is ridiculous. But think, for a moment, if you will of Madelyn Dunham, a white woman from Kansas, strolling the aisle of a supermarket, or having lunch in a coffee shop, with her grandson--way back at the turn of the 1970s, when such sights were uncommon, even in Hawaii. Think about what her friends might have thought, or said, about her...situation.
I'm sorry for the short diary, but his post on Swampland was too beautiful to post somewhere in one of the very long sympathy threads. I hope everyone reads it.
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/...