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Dapper Obama rocking the lapel pin, reading Fareed Zakaria
5:45PM ON
05/22/2008
BY
Ari Savitzky
And he looks good doing it, flag pin and all. Nice catch HuffPo.
Here’s Zakaria in Newsweek outlining some of the ideas in his important-sounding The Post-American World.
American anxiety springs from something much deeper, a sense that large and disruptive forces are coursing through the world. In almost every industry, in every aspect of life, it feels like the patterns of the past are being scrambled. “Whirl is king, having driven out Zeus,” wrote Aristophanes 2,400 years ago. And—for the first time in living memory—the United States does not seem to be leading the charge. Americans see that a new world is coming into being, but fear it is one being shaped in distant lands and by foreign people.
Kinda makes you think about how Obama is such an amazing messenger for America in the 21st Century, and about how important defining Obama as foreign/unpatriotic/muslim/other will be to the Republican strategy this fall.
On that note, as to the gilt ol glory on Obama’s lapel, good on him. Don’t play into the distractions. Wear the pin, claim the pin, move on and win.
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