12 September 2008

- Stay the Course -

I'm with Andrew Sullivan on this one.

Obama tries to hit McCain for being out of touch. I really think he doesn't need to go there. The McCain campaign is imploding. Do nothing but stay calm and focused on the issues.

The happy warrier—that seems to me to be the effective image Obama has been striking, and it's beginning to pay dividends. So Obama needs to just take care of himself, play the humor perhaps, but spare the ridicule.

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope