The long campaign season is finally over, for better or worse, depending on who you ask. Hopefully we can now return to the happy posts of yestermonth. I enjoyed exploring my own political thoughts and logic, but too much discussion on any subject is draining.
To end my “coverage” of the issues, I thought I’d recommend two articles I came across today. The first is by Desmond Tutu and ran in the Washington Post today. Tutu speaks of what it means to the world that Obama will be President of the United States.
A beautiful chaos of signatures on the sign for Barack Obama in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
The second is by a slightly more controversial figure. During all the commotion of the election season, William Ayers remained silent about his connection with Obama. Now that it’s all over, he has posted his reflection on the issue. It’s good to be reminded that someone so vilified and demonized is, in fact, a human just like the rest of us. I’ll end with a quote from Ayers’ article which I find particularly insightful:
In a robust and sophisticated democracy, political leaders—and all of us—ought to seek ways to talk with many people who hold dissenting, or even radical, ideas. Lacking that simple and yet essential capacity to question authority, we might still be burning witches and enslaving our fellow human beings today.
