O My Gosh!

Does the fact that Senator & Mrs. Obama got a good deal on their home mortgage mean OBAMA IS EVIL!!!!1!! … ?
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/07/most-irresponsible-piece-of-journ...

Are we HELPLESS and DOOMED????
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/reality-time-at-mybaracko_b_1...

Or is there another way to see thru the glass lightly?
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/smart-dissent#comments

Maybe there can even be … equanimity??!
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31287915&postID=760227425543456...

(from comment thread of the above link)

“Basically I think we have a war between the cynics who cling to the belief that the roof is caving in, that the American people are dumb, that the rulers are evil, that there's a sinister cosmic conspiracy, and that there's not much hope to bank on...vs the others who think there is always a redemptive possibility. All are opinions and most people fall in-between, I think. The reality will fall in between too. Doesn't it always?”

Or – dare I say it – HOPE?
http://www.wednesdaywire.com/

And .. Common Sense?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trey-ellis/what-if-obama-never-left_b_1103...

(from comment thread of the above link)

“… Obama is no idealist, yet people confuse his "audacity of hope" for idealism. Obama is a pragmatist with a conscience or better yet, he is a humanist who is acutely aware of the need to get things done and knows that he may often have to forsake appearances.

We will be tested to take a leap of faith into uncharted waters with an untested leader. But if you remember history, our greatest leaders were plucked unknown and untested. To wit: the stutterer Moses; Miriam; Ruth; Rebeca; the shy and introspective preacher's son Martin Luther King, Jr; the unschooled former prisoner Malcolm X; Rosa Parks, a seamstress, Rosie the Riveter, the icon of the wartime factory worker; and most recently, Nelson Mandela, imprisoned and tortured much of his adult life. [I would add the ineffectual young lawyer Mohandas Gandhi. – yc]

We cannot judge Obama by an old world view; Obama's arrival on the scene signals a cosmic shift --- one that MLK referred to as "the cosmic elbow that bends towards justice". Like MLK and the others, Obama is his own person: trust that and trust yourself to love and protect (that doesn't mean we can't disagree --- Obama has already welcomed that), but trust and love enough not to destroy him out of our own anxiety. Something greater than Obama and greater than ourselves is in charge.”