At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce.
In other words, people want Obama as president not because of him at all, but because, being black, they believe voting him in will make some ground putting to rest whatever we perceive as cultural "upheaval."
Interesting reason to vote for a candidate for president. I hope the international community sees it this way, too (they won't).
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