e.j. dionne : tuesday's elections "were a timely reminder that President Obama needs to tune up his celebrated political organization and find a way to make Americans feel hopeful again." er. why 'timely'? because 'reminder' takes 'timely' as 'rhetoric' takes 'empty.' notice that it's not a timely reminder to lower unemployment or stop engaging in an orgy of debt, but to crank up the 'celebrated' (that should be 'much-vaunted') political organization. what we need is...even more hope-y posters. we need to induce a soaring feeling or impression of hope, without origin or object. ah the power of words, of vision, of hoohah! for we are humans, and humans hope like earths quake. we are the stories we tell, so never, ever stop yapping.