“It is precisely Obama’s experiences in Hawaii, Indonesia, and Kenya that are soul-forming for a future global leader.”
- William Irwin Thompson

Thompson explains why he likes Barack Obama, and what’s wrong with Hillary Clinton and John McCane:

Barack Obama… We are now heading into a period of enormous cultural transformation, and Obama is the kind of soul that can instinctively feel and understand, indeed, articulate a new planetary civilization. Obama is not a messianic figure that we need fear as some crazed cult leader; he more simply, and more enduringly, embodies a paradigm shift in American political leadership. Hillary may scoff at him and claim that his years in an Indonesian Muslim elementary school do not count as foreign policy experience, because she is thinking as the technocratic policy wonk that she is. It is precisely Obama’s experiences in Hawaii, Indonesia, and Kenya that are soul-forming for a future global leader. Hillary and McCain are the old paradigm of politics: the Eastern technocratic manager and the sunbelt suburban Goldwater-Reagan reactionary calling for tax cuts and militarism to solve all problems with a hatchet or a bomb.

- William Irwin Thompson, 3/3/2008: Link.

Thanks, E.B.