Yes we can WHAT?

Soap Box time.

I have no issues with Obama... I kind of like the guy and his smoke-mouth. But with this talk of movements and change and revolution and young people excited about politics and whatnot... it gets me thinking there's a bit of overstatement going on about the needs of the moment. Obama echoes language in his talks from the great speeches of past generations, but my issue is that we aren't really facing the same kind of issues at the same level as we did at those times.

Slavery? Genocide of Jews? Racism and Human Rights? When we say Yes we Can with reference to such issues, it rings true. Rallying support looks righteous, not cultist.

But this?


Speaking as an outsider, it's hard to understand why we need to be passionate about this at the level that its being portrayed. The foundation just does not come across as critical enough, especially in the middle of a nation that, all things considered, still is probably the "free-est" place in the world to live in.

To me it seems that it's more about the dynamism of Obama than anything else. And ultimately, that people need hope at a scale that this stuff cannot even begin to touch. That seed of need is unidentified by most, but ever present in the heart and ignited by the slightest whisper of false salvation.

But hope cannot begin by looking inward. The idea of "the Human Spirit" is so subtly Godless that it's hard to catch it, but it takes hold of the heart like a firestorm, and before you know it, we're self sufficient, and Yes We Can.

edit: Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks this.