My hero Michael Chabon writes in support of Obama and against the phobocracy. I think his reasons for supporting Obama are more idealistic and head-in-the-clouds than my reasons, but there it is anyway.
The Tin Man
My hero Michael Chabon writes in support of Obama and against the phobocracy. I think his reasons for supporting Obama are more idealistic and head-in-the-clouds than my reasons, but there it is anyway.
I almost didn’t check that link out, because I assumed it was the same short piece he and Ayelet had written about their support for Obama, in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle. But this is significantly longer and even more impassioned, and I’m glad I checked it out. I’m a huge Chabon fan, as well (Jeff and I were fortunate to hear him speak a few months ago at the San Francisco Jewish Commmunity Center, and he actually made me cry a little and my heart to race).
I’d already made up my own mind to give Obama my vote in tomorrow’s primary, but this made me feel even better–more patriotic, even, a word I’d almost come to despise but now am beginning to embrace–for doing so.