“Democracy” poised for a comeback?

Man, there’s something building, something in the air, even all the way out here on Christmas Island. A jumbo jet crashes – into the water – on take-off from New York and everybody walks away in one piece? That just doesn’t happen, does it? The pictures of all those people standing in a row on the barely-submerged plane wing, there was something absolutely New Testament about it:

I told The Missus today, “It’s the first Obama Miracle!”

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I’ve been waiting to do something with the following clip for sixteen long years. Don Henley performed this Leonard Cohen composition at one of the galas accompanying Bill Clinton’s first inauguration in 1993 and I haven’t felt as good about democracy since.



Thanks for the song, Mr. Cohen.