Saturday, September 6, 2003

Rationing hope

Remember when Bill Clinton got all kinds of mileage from a message about "Believing in a Place called Hope"? (Because he was from Hope, Arkansas, even though he left there after first grade and grew up in Hot Springs.)

Anyway, I'm sitting here in San Francisco, at a Starbucks on Van Ness, killing a few minutes between apointments, with the voice of Britt in my left ear (via cell), spelunking for an answer to the question I was prestented yesterday by a friend whose libertarian core is a lot harder than mine: "How can you, as any kind of libertarian, have any kind of interest in Howard Dean?" And Britt just gave me the reason, along with his answer to a question of mine, which was "What do people get when they write checks, or click the Donate button, over and over again, to contribute to the Howard Dean campaign?"

Britt said, "They're buying hope, one month at a time."