Why hope?

From Jonathan Capehart’s sitdown with Michelle Obama:

“What gives you hope when so much is so awful?”

[Pointing to a girl in the audience .] “That little girl right there. There is no way that you can look at that beautiful little girl and not understand that we do not have the right or the luxury to become hopeless.”

I’m happy to remind myself once again that we met the Obamas in 2004 during Barack Obama’s campaign for Senate. Michelle talked to people in the function room of a local restaurant. Barack visited later on and spoke at a nearby community college. N.B.: Democratic candidates running in state-wide elections never show up here.

Elaine and I watched a chunk of this interview last night. I said that if we had either Obama in our living room, I’d like to ask how the country that elected Barack Obama twice could also elect the current occupant twice. I’m still not sure how to answer that question.

You can watch the interview at YouTube. This exchange begins at 1:02:57.

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