A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Obama in SC

I’ve been an Obama skeptic (I don’t much care for his rhetoric about transforming politics in some kind of great transcendent leap forward), but even my stony heart was moved a bit by his victory in South Carolina and the ensuing speech:

Realistically speaking, I think he’s our best bet, which is probably about as close as I’ll come to an endorsement. (I still reserve the right to vote third-party in November.)

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