Time to Make Obama Move

My teenage and college years were under the shadow of this dark period of American history, with an imperial president capitalizing on a nation’s collective shock to wage war on nations, civil liberties, and the environment. Such were the only politics, all but stated outright, that I and millions of others my age knew for most of our sentient lives. I was thirteen years old when George W. Bush won the presidency.

So you can hardly fault us for being swept up in the “hope” and “change” whirlwind that blew through our country with Barack Obama’s presidency. Young folks from coast to coast turned out in droves to knock on doors, work phone banks, and register new voters. Even people steeped in radical politics, deeply critical of the American two-party system, got on board. Some volunteered for his campaign, a task in which they had never imagined themselves participating; others decided they would vote for him, despite taking previous positions that they would never participate in electoral politics; many put forth a sharply critical stance in public or print, but one-on-one, maybe after a few beers, admitted that his campaign’s energy was infectious, and they were doggedly attempting to evade the grasp of that excitement—to no avail.

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