Here is a picture that is rare.What does that say or mean? Perhaps not much nor anything at all, yet it strikes me as rare that politicians allow themselves to be shown this way.
Mr. Casey ... told reporters at a news conference in the Soldiers and Sailors Military Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh, “I believe in this guy like I’ve never believed in a candidate in my life.” ... the endorsement by Mr. Casey — an Irish Catholic who won 59 percent of the vote in his 2006 race for the Senate — may carry some weight, especially with white working class voters, who are known as Casey Democrats.
I do not understand an endorsement ... wait, I do understand, because an endorsement did change my mind: when Ted Kennedy endorsed Obama, its impact on me was immediate and significant.
“Also, his kids were on his case, his four daughters,” the person said about Mr. Casey. “Not that they dictate to him, but he was paying attention. He was wondering, Why are these kids, who aren’t very political, so interested? He does have the ability to light up a younger generation.”
That also impresses me. Remembering 1968, my own youthful enthusiasm in support of Bobby Kennedy, and others enthusiastically, even exuberantly, supporting Gene McCarthy, all of us passionately opposing LBJ, the young's fervor for Obama impresses me immensely. Young people are an important force for change and national energy; no one else electrifies them as Obama does.
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