Obama is the candidate for the children of the Sixties

I was thinking today, as I read more in The Gonzo Way, in particular the chapter on politics and the statement about how 'we is the most important word in politics', and reflecting on the death of George Carlin, another great 60's Icon, that the election of Barrack Obama would make these people very very happy.

Bill Clinton was a symbol of the Baby Boomers, very smart, dedicating his life to doing good, but a little flexible in his morality, if you get my drift. But Obama is a symbol of everything the Boomers worked for: a liberal, biracial candidate whose primary focus is on the We in politics. If I were to describe a candidate that would get all of my high school teachers excited it would be Obama. And the way he is doing things, challenging the old ways of doing things whenever possible, is exactly the sort of thinking that my generation and a little older were 'brainwashed' with.

The whole campaign finance thing illustrates how the Obama campaign is embracing the grassroots we the people type of campaign espoused in the Sixties (and many other times before) and merging it with the wonders of new technology and the Internet. This is the type of campaign that only people of a certain generation and younger can embrace.

On the issues of Race and Gender much of my thinking was influenced by children's programs like Sesame Street, Electric Company, Big Blue Marble, Free To Be You and Me. All of which emphasized that color and gender really and truly mean nothing, it's just a sign of diversity, but nothing more. And Obama's candidacy is symbolic of that.

As far as politics, he is a product of the I Have a Dream Speech and Watergate, a willingness to embrace all kinds of possibilities and different ways of thought. And a refusal to accept No for an answer in politics or blind acceptance of any government action as being for the 'Good of the Nation'.

And I think that somewhere Billy Jack is deciding that if we can't truly have the change that he wants, that at least Obama gets us headed in the right direction.