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The crux: Re Sullivan;

"At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a mo*mentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce"

IMO "Observation"
Swarming:...... Recent studies in respect to this phenominum on lower animals,insects and humans bring us ever closer to understanding and influencing this behavior. Some global elements (one in particular) seem to jhave an edge in mastering the required skills.

A recent request fo comment in respect to the Obama/ Russett interview on "Face The Nation" caused me to wonder about the process of collective thought and influences when the majority of those responding to the request produced judgements of Russett's performance rather than Obama's

I believe Sullivan has focused on the essence of "Why Obama".

As in Bird migration (it is said) "only a few of the birds know where they are going" and the rest simply follow. Is that our stage of evolution ?