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Note: With a little editing here and there, what follows is a comment I posted here: inmedias.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-obama-said-what-he-should-have.html

Apologies for the lack of "reporting" for this post. But hey--this is a blog post, so it's cool. Right?

Seeing as this is the day after Super Tuesday, this post won't be especially news-y. However, at least in my neck of the woods (Wichita, Kansas), for the past couple of weeks I have kept bumping into friends both in person and on the 'Net who wonder about the efficacy of the caucus system. This post is in part a response to them and their concerns, with the caucus I attended in Wichita serving as context.

"The smallness of our politics," spoken by Barack Obama in his speech announcing his candidacy, takes on a new, sobering resonance when placed against this striking photo http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump...
of Sarah Obama Onyango, Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother. Go have a look at this picture and ponder this woman living simultaneously in two political worlds--her grandson's, in which bloggers wage war with words; and her own, where, now, politics has become literally a matter of life and death.

Greetings, all.

As my inaugural post on redblueamerica and at Joel's invitation, I thought I'd re-post here something I wrote for my regular blog about Barack Obama's stop in Kansas this past Tuesday.