If you're sick of me pointing out the many parallels between current Bermuda and US politics, stop reading here.
I am a huge fan of Barack Obama. I don't know if he'll win the nomination, but I gravitate towards the TV when I hear his baritone and read everything that I can about him. Obama has always represented for me the right kind of politician; he is collaborative not combative, willing to stand on principle, refuses to pander, dumb down his message or play to people's base instincts as so many politicians do, isn't ashamed to be an intellectual, but most significantly, he embodies the future not the past.
Today, as Vexed Bermoothes picked up (presumably from one of my favourite US blogs, Andrew Sullivan), he delivered a speech which is oh so relevant to where we find ourselves today in Bermuda:
"I think there's no doubt that we represent the kind of change that Senator Clinton can't deliver on and part of it is generational. Senator Clinton and others, they've been fighting some of the same fights since the '60's and it makes it very difficult for them to bring the country together to get things done."
Feel familiar?
As I said in my Royal Gazette column today:
There’s only one party that, if we’re honest, knows that it has no option but to produce results, be collaborative, and move Bermuda out of a half century long racial/political argument that is going precisely nowhere.
Evidently Obama's been getting to me.
Posted by Christian S. Dunleavy