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...Hope—a bright, if not entirely reasonable, optimism for the future, for individuals’ ability to “create change??—has become the rallying cry of a new generation of politics...
...perspective of the Democratic Party. The campaign also sent out the Black Eyed Peas’ “Yes We Can” video in their official e-mails, thus promoting the hype. Finally, the campaign has consistently portrayed Obama as the idealized “candidate of change?? far more than they have highlighted his impressive policy proposals. While “change?? is indeed a fundamental part of Obama’s platform, failing to adequately link this message to genuine political issues laid the groundwork for the kind of character-over-substance...
...homeland” this truly is—namely, “Native Americans.” This provides another ground on which to steer clear of references to the American “homeland”). The benefit of a lexicographic “regime change?? on this issue would not confine itself to our borders. Such a reform would also signal to the entire globe a change in the attitude of America’s foreign policy. An obsession with “Homeland Security” projects an insular view of American responsibility...
...same on “Gasoline,” where Crow, narrating a future oil shortage, takes a swing at “Those bastards up in Washington / Afraid of popping that greed vein.” She also draws our attention to the problem of climate change??the year is 2017 and, with the “sun… growing hotter,” London is suffering “sweltering heat.” There’s no question that Crow has been reading her World Book—in the space...
Along with what is fast becoming an irredeemably bleak legacy, the Bush administration will leave behind a lexicon that even our “change?? candidates have taken to using. In it, “terror” is defined as a shadowy coalition of America’s (Muslim) enemies, not a feeling; “compassion” is not a virtue, but a hidebound, evangelical conception of charity. Amid this catalog of inexactitudes, the most egregious example must be terror’s foil, “freedom”: In its reduction...