Day 12 of Nanowrimo (and yes, I’m totally behind) (the challenge [modified] “And then she said to me, ‘I know Barack Obama is really talented. But don’t you think your expectations are a bit too high? Don’t you think it’s dangerous to put him on a pedestal?’):<\/p>\n
Chaim jumped to my defense. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like the word, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use the word! She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a guest in our community. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know our ways\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Lilach quickly agreed. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yankel, use another word.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fine, fine. But can you imagine\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
I jumped in. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And can you imagine the alternative? That hotheaded, arrogant, socially repressive McCain?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I sawed into the brisket until I realized that there was absolute silence.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perhaps we change the subject,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tzippi said quickly.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, no. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to hear this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yankel said, a little snidely. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to understand how this little one could think that a man with Muslim roots, a man who has publicly sided with the Palestinians, could possibly be a better choice than one who has fought America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wars, who has come out on the side of Israel, who wants to return real values to our country.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bush has done a truly\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I stopped myself quickly, censoring the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fucked up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d out my speech as I saw the flash of fear cross Tzippi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153messed up job with this country and this old man is going to change things? If there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any hope of ending the war, if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any hope of getting health care back on track, if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any hope at all of the United States being able to hold our head up when we face other nations, then we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to go with Obama.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
“I really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts. The man has no experience.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n
Tzippi entered in the fray, clearly seeing that things had the potential of spinning out of control. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don’t you think that, just possibly, your expectations are a bit too high? Don’t you think it’s dangerous to put him on a pedestal?”<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m putting him on a pedestal. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just not pulling McCain out of the gutter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Listen\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yankel started, clearly getting hotter by the moment, but Lilach jumped up right then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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