Or so says Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell. She's specifically
talking about the hope that Barack Obama would bring.

Personally, I think the guy staying on his meds would have been a
better deterrent, but I digress...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/798119,CST-NWS-mitch17.article

"If you're wondering why Sen. Barack Obama's message of hope has
resonated with so many voters across the country, consider the
shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University."

See?

"How is it that we live in a country where a young man can get his
hands on four weapons, including a shotgun?

Why are people walking around armed to the teeth?

The only reason I can think of is that too many people have lost
hope."

Gee... My father has far more than a mere 4 "weapons" (and by that I
mean firearms). hell he has more than 4 shotguns.

"Hopelessness is behind the violence that erupts on street corners and
behind closed doors in middle-class homes where women have killed
their children and tried to take their own lives.

And it is hopelessness that condemns innocent children like Demond
Reed to an early death at the hands of an abuser, and lures young men
and women to throw away their futures for a drug addiction that leads
to wasted lives."

Does she mean that the Boston Strangler didn't really strangle women
in the heart of Camelot at it's height of hope? Does she mean that
all those people that said they were doing smack during that same time
period are mistaken?

She says, though, that Obama is the solution...

"On the stump, however, Obama has had to defend his faith, and jokes
about his critics calling him a "hopemonger." But Obama's ability to
inspire people -- in urban areas as well as in rural towns -- is a
gift the country needs."
--
"Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to
blaze with angelic glory."
Larry Niven - Ringworld

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