What is wrong with you people?
Is this the chosen one?


What's wrong with you, Jim Lad?

Of course he's not the chosen one in some mystic sense. He hasn't even finished being chosen, yet. But a lot of people are going to choose him, because he represents things they hold to be important -- clear thought, even-handed and rational dialogue, and the intention to make things work better than they do.

As for just saying the guy's name, why that's no biggy, obviously -- unless there is a passive-aggressive, covert attempt to turn a simple happenstance series of phonemes into political capital by emphasizing it snidely. That seems to be the case here, and I am surprised you didn't notice it.

The candidate's name, in general use, is "Barack Obama". Don't be disingenuous.


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