Clinging to civility: The Boston Globe
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 10:33AM FOR ME, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn’t the speech before Congress or Wall Street. It was in the Virginia schoolhouse when a ninth-grader asked him a question that had nothing and everything to do with his presidency: “And if you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?’’
The president was not about to choose Lindsay Lohan. Nor did he pick Abe Lincoln. His answer was Gandhi.
“It would probably be a really small meal because he didn’t eat a lot,’’ he added with humor. But the icon of nonviolent leadership was his inspiration because “he ended up doing so much and changing the world just by the power of his ethics.’’
As I heard this, I imagined a huge groan emanating skyward from a frustrated phalanx of his supporters. “Gandhi? Did he say Gandhi?’’ more

























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