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The unfinished dream
Posted in Irshaddering Thoughts on Nov 07, 2008
Barack Obama has a dream. During the campaign, he told student journalists that he wants to mix Republican red and Democrat blue to paint the United States purple.
Lest that hope corrode into a pipe dream, the president-elect needs to buck his own base by shaking up the transition. For the ever-perfecting union that is America, transition may yet lead to transformation…
Read my entire commentary in the Globe and Mail.
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