Obama and with him others give voice to generations

Spiritual Politics at the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the
Study of Religion in Public Policy at Trinity College found two clusters of media reaction to Sen. Barack Obama's speech:

• Those which saw it as exemplary of a presidentail candidate, even paralleling JFK's in 1960.


• Those which saw it as doing too little to condemn Rev. Jeremiah Wright's comments, even finding guilt by association.

Most media reactions were pabulum when compared to North Carolina blogger Frink, who found in Obama's oration a defiance of racism which paralleled his own grandfather's covert defiance of the KKK more than a century earlier in Columbus County.

His was the authentic voice of generations and community responding with affirmation to Obama's authentic speech about the generations and community embodied in his campaign for the presidency.

In Frink's reaction and others like it, even those felt but not given voice, we find the towering possibilities of this election to heal and grow once more toward a more perfect union.