So So Bill Bradley gave an impromptu pep talk to about 80 Barack Obama volunteers in a small, business courtyard just off Main Street in downtown Concord. Standing on a granite bench, he was really quite moving. (Our our Mark Schmitt might have got a bit misty, if he were there.) After talking about Obama’s transformative politics themes, he used a very powerful metaphor that really moved the volunteers:
You know, you see a lot of politicians on the stage and the light shines on them, they kind of swell, you know? ‘Yeah, I'm in the spotlight.' But Barack reflects that light--doesn't absorb it--but reflects it back on the people themselves. And when he reflects it back on the people themselves it is because he cannot imagine government without thinking of the people, and that is why the people can imagine him as president of the United States.
--Tom Schaller
