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THE OBAMA PHENOMENA

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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Senator Barack Obama's campaign for president seems to be endowed with a larger than life appeal. Indeed, Senator Obama together with the tens of thousands new

voters he is bringing on board constitute--"the Obama Phenomena," if you will--a movement that has a political and historical trajectory of its own. Phenomena of this sort have occurred before in American history, but with the advent of media that inundate all aspects of American life, the consequences are exponentially greater at least in principle. Americans are thirsting after deliberative political debate replete with vigorous arguments on the issues, but civility in the interactions of the debaters and their surrogates. Senator Obama heralds this new approach as one destined to generate more reflective substantive solutions to the enormous difficulties currently besieging the nation. Whether it will remains to be seen. But the force and inspiration of the Obama Phenomena cannot be denied.

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on February 23, 2008 (boomark / email).