"Barack Obama and the Idea of America" at http://www.theliberal.co.uk/Obama_and_the_Idea_of_America.html

Forty years after the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Obama's message has chimed with the optimism of an earlier generation eager for change, one which exuded what R.F.K. described as the 'spirit of youth': "not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease". Bobby's infectious energy, his striking sincerity and quiet confidence all resonate in Obama, together with that emphasis on "moral courage", on restoring definition to the American project and correcting the country's ethical compass.

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