Obama doesn't really have a movement behind him-he's got a fan club. How does a fan club hold a candidate accountable? Obama lust does embody some phantasmic longing for a better world-more peaceful, egalitarian, and humane. He'll deliver little of that-but there's evidence of some admirable popular desires behind the
crush. And they will inevitably be disappointed. But then there's great political potential in disillusion. |