Okay, I'm still not really sure if this piece by Stephen Marche at Esquire is serious or satire, but Esquire is promoting it on Twitter and Facebook as though it's serious, so I'm going with that:
How Can We Not Love Obama?
Because like it or not, he is all of us
You have to read the whole thing to get the full effect of major league man-crush combined with severe delusion, but here's a taste:
Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement?
It gets even better from there. I thought about making it the Bullshit Nation Award for today, but my piddly little honor is not worthy of such a magnificent display. Seriously, read the whole thing.
Marche could have skipped the writing though, and just put up a video of himself covering Minnie Riperton's classic:
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