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I know I am suppose to be on a blogging sabbatical, but I couldn’t help but post this: I am hopeful in the political process again.

I started reading Barack Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope, and man am I impressed. It’s nearly 340 pages and chuck full of good stuff. The man can write, he can weave together compelling prose, and he seems to genuinely want to fight for this country without resorting to the typical polarities of the political process. Sure he’s a democrat, but his politics are…seem…just different! I feel like I can believe in the political process again, that there is a “third way” through it all. And even if that “third way” is being led by a democrat he seems like the only one who can bring some sanity back to Washington…

I’ll post some more thoughts later, but I think this make me an Obama supporter. This from the guy who spent the evening at the Bush Cheney campaign party in DC in November 2004 and was on the front cover of New York Daily News and a background shot for Entertainment Tonight shouting “FOUR MORE YEARS!”

My, my, how times have changed…

-jeremy