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Is it just me, or has John McCain morphed into Mr. Potter? “A warped, frustrated old man,” prattling on about how wealth has to come down from the top. Closed, grasping, acquisitive, trapped in his own self and his own desire for more for himself. And Obama is becoming our George Bailey – the defender of the little guy, the community figure, the hero – “Just remember one thing, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you’re talking about, they do most of the living and paying and working and dying in this community. Is it too much to ask that they work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?” The physical appearance of the two men is combining with their ideologies to create something cosmic and archetypal. Of course it is easy to be deceived by such appearances – but almost impossible not to hope that they have a deep significance for our world. People have been making fun of the messianic character of the Obama campaign, but the feeling is there, as irrational as it may be. Kennedy and Reagan had it too, of course. This power goes beyond individual accomplisments. In fact, it goes beyond all individualism. Communities need leaders and symbolic men.
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