There are some things that, through either well-earned experience or cynicism, I just don’t expect to see a national politician do. For example, I never thought I’d see a vice-presidential candidate wink at me during a debate. And I never thought I’d see a presently serving president sit down with a bunch of black and Latino inmates at a prison and talk about their families, how they got into crime, why they copped a plea, what kind of businesses they’d like to start, how they might get financing to start those businesses, what kind of responsibilities they have as parents and to their communities, the reasons for and against the War on Drugs, and the impact of the cycle of mass incarceration on communities of color.
I won’t go so far as to say that watching VICE last night fried my synapses, but it was a wonderful, wonderful experience.
I woke up today and put on my Obama/Biden ’08 t-shirt in celebration.
