"Today, attacks on the cult of personality seem really to mean attacks on the ability to make speeches that inspire. But you only have to look at crucial moments in the history of our time to see how crucial it was to have a leader who could inspire, who could rally a nation to a standard, who could infuse a country with confidence, to remind people of the justice of a cause."
L'historien Sean Wilentz, un ami de longue date des Clinton, ne voit pas moins un certain cynisme dans l'approche d'Obama :
"What is troubling about the campaign is that it's gone beyond hope and change to redemption. It's posing as a figure who is the one person who will redeem our politics. And what I fear is, that ends up promising more from politics than politics can deliver."
Cela dit, Obama consacre plus de temps ces jours-ci Ă expliquer ses politiques dans ses discours, comme on peut le lire ici.
(Photo The New York Times)