tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post3702848151532647605..comments2023-11-03T06:36:27.305-04:00Comments on Phronesisaical: Potomac Primaryhelmuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09069600766378586919noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-81703934141697599682008-02-15T18:14:00.000-05:002008-02-15T18:14:00.000-05:00I just looked up the word anointment in the online...I just looked up the word anointment in the online Webster dictionary via my phone and the first ad to load while reading the definition was for Obama. When I made my choice, on my way to the polls, I asked myself who would lead our nation most effectively in a world of rapid technological change and globalization. I went from seeing Obama initially as the least of 3 evils to a huge potential asset for our nation.GJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01196850613424045930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-43889898774828749262008-02-13T08:45:00.000-05:002008-02-13T08:45:00.000-05:00Madam Mayo is right. The "we" versus "I" thing is ...Madam Mayo is right. The "we" versus "I" thing is something I learned from one of my mentors. People have been longing for that at least since 9/11.<BR/><BR/>That said, I love the hope the students show and the way they respond to that very small but significant marker of leadership. We older folks are justified by experience in the anti-anointment feeling, but we would do well to relearn some of that hope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-11691234601834293142008-02-13T02:52:00.000-05:002008-02-13T02:52:00.000-05:00Anti-anoinment hit me too. I think. I felt a worry...Anti-anoinment hit me too. I think. I felt a worry in voting for an Obama-nation, so to speak, that I wouldn't have in voting for Clinton. But I feel like I saw this Kool-Aid being made.MThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02341704109256270557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-76128917259770494742008-02-12T16:53:00.000-05:002008-02-12T16:53:00.000-05:00So: anti-anointment pangs is what those are called...So: anti-anointment pangs is what those are called. I've been feeling funny about the fact that the TX vote could matter to the Democratic Party . . . <BR/><BR/>I was talking with a colleague here the other day who is planning to vote for Clinton, at least, I gather, partly because he's afraid that the gesture of voting for Obama threatens rekindle the presently-embarrassing feelings of hope he had during these same months in 1992. He is, he told me "in love with the way I felt then," but he is committed to not being suckered unrealistically. <BR/><BR/>I told him I would vote for Obama.barba de chivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331020665581474024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-38543364508497679382008-02-12T15:05:00.000-05:002008-02-12T15:05:00.000-05:00I'm voting today in DC for Obama. I believe much o...I'm voting today in DC for Obama. I believe much of his so-called charisma simply comes from his focusing -- you hear it in all of his speeches, his recent book, his website--- on "we" and "you" rather than the Clintonian "I". Obama "gets" the concept of servant leadership, that is, leading not as some kind of rock-star-pseudo-royal but as a true servant of the people in what is, still, yes, a Republic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com